Innovation Personality Poker Solitaire
I have played Innovation Personality Poker with groups from 8 to 800 in size.
David Zinger, a fantastic blogger (who incidentally wrote a brief review of Personality Poker today), provided me with a solitaire version that I really like.
He noted that there are 52 weeks in the year and 52 cards in the deck. This is a fact that I had not noticed!
Here’s his suggestion:
Each week you choose a different card that dictates your personality for those seven days. Here are the rules:
- Shuffle the cards.
- Choose one card at random from the deck.
- Put the card in a place where you will see it frequently.
- Optional: On an index card, write the attributes and qualities that come to mind when you think of the word. Put the index card next to your playing card.
- For the next seven days, use that card as a focus for the week to bring forth that quality, or to watch out for that quality during your various activities and relationships.
- With the two, three and four cards (the negative attributes), it may be more of a case of watching out for this quality in yourself and others.
Here’s an example from David in his own words:
I just got the four of hearts (submissive) for the first week. At first I didn’t like it, but today is my 20th wedding anniversary. I’m taking a more creative approach to the quality of submissive.
- I will be more responsive to how my wife thinks and feels.
- I will let her decide what restaurant we will go to for our anniversary dinner.
- I will work this week on being very responsive to what she wants.
Although this is a totally different use than the cards were intended, I think this is a fantastic way of enhancing your creativity on a daily basis. One of my favorite creativity techniques is to make believe you are someone else. If you imagine that you are Walt Disney for the day, you will see things you have never noticed before. David’s idea takes this a step further. Instead of being a different person, you just take on different attributes, attitudes, and behaviors. Brilliant.
Thanks David. Happy Canada Day.
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Innovation Personality Poker Manual Going to Press
We just completed the Innovation Personality Poker instruction manual. It is 85 pages of solid content. Below you will find the Table of Contents.
There is a “Quick Start Guide” [chapter 1] that can have you up and running in a matter of minutes. There is a transcript of a 45 minute ice breaker [chapter 8] to help you run your own session.
Everything in between provides details on how to play the game, how to interpret the results, and how to use Personality Poker to improve your innovation process.
To learn more, go to http://www.innovationpersonalitypoker.com/
Table of Contents
1. Quick Start Guide
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Personality Poker
Personality Poker™ for Innovation – Taking orders now, shipping mid-July
To order, go to our 24/7 Innovation Shopping Cart
Personality Poker is a fast-paced, highly interactive game that helps employees (and individuals) understand how they contribute to – and detract from – the innovation process. This is a personality test specifically designed for innovation and gives you yet another valuable tool to enhance both your professional and personal lives.
How Do You Play?
All participants trade 52 specially designed poker cards with each other. The objective is to get a perfect hand that reveals your preferred innovation style and how you can best contribute to the success of your organization. This is the only form of poker where you are guaranteed to come out a winner every time.
This game will help you discover…
* why the person you like the least may be the person you need the most
* how your innovation strength may ultimately limit your success
* how to get the right people in the right roles – and where you may currently be misaligned
* a common mistake that people make when selling to others – and how you can easily correct it
* how others see you – and how that might be different than how you see yourself
* why certain leadership styles are more likely to fail–and what you can do about it
* how to improve your relationships – both professionally and personally
If you want to have 24/7 Innovation, where innovation is part of your organization’s DNA, then it is not about finding your strengths; it is about finding how your strengths work best with your team.
Rave Reviews
“Stephen Shapiro brought a Las Vegas level of energy to the group. He made the session not only useful and relevant to understanding of personality mixes and their impact on driving or blocking innovation, but also highly interactive with a lot of audience participation. When you are in a series of presentations at meetings, energy can run out of the room. It didn’t with Stephen’s Personality Poker!”
Andrew Bushell, Head of Innovation, Novartis Consumer Health
“Personality Poker is an entertaining and engaging exercise. The end result is consistent with ‘other’ personality tests, but you can get a team there a lot quicker and have more fun doing so. Plus your understanding of how it matters in the bigger innovation picture really sticks. Fantastic!”
Michele Egger, Innovation Operations, Chevron
“Personality Poker is a fun and engaging approach to both personal assessment and understanding team dynamics. This approach helped me recognize how my own problem-solving approach may complement (or clash) with other team members, and gave me useful insights into future team development.”
Ben Cowles, P&C Business Insurance Service Operations, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
“I thought I’d seen just about every profiling tool there was. Until now, those I’ve seen all required you to fill out questionnaires that are boring and can lead to biased answers. But Personality Poker got to the desired endpoint more quickly, more engagingly, and with less bias than any of these.”
Rob, S., Innovation Champion and Facilitator, R&D Division, A Major Pharmaceutical*
“Personality Poker is both enlightening and engaging. It is similar to other personality test, but is a lot more FUN! It’s a great exercise for any organization to inject some excitement while learning how to create functional teams.”
Tom Morgan, General Manager of Innovation & Process Improvement, Premier Manufacturing Support Services
“If you’re looking for an engaging, invigorating and creative way to kick off your conference or meeting, I highly recommend Personality Poker!”
Randal White, V.P. Innovation Engineering, Imaginatik, plc
“My experience with group style awareness exercises is that they are like getting five-year-olds to take medicine – unpleasant to administer and having benefits that are little understood by the patients. Personality Poker is actually fun and most important, very thorough in understanding team member styles as well as one’s own. The result must be a higher probability of stronger teams with a greater utilization of strengths and acceptance of differences.”
Bruce Harned, President, MarketFit Associates
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Instruction Manual
In addition to the cards, an 85 page instructor’s manual helps you play the game, interpret the results, and embed innovation in your organization. The manual includes the following:
1. Quick Start Guide
2. Getting a Winning Hand
* Step 1 – Distributing the Cards
* Step 2 – Ranking Cards
* Step 3 – Improving Your Hand
* Step 4 – The Bargain Basement Sale
* Step 5 – Giving Others Cards (optional)
3. Finding Your Primary Style
* Selecting Your Primary Suit
* Interpreting Your Primary Style
o Suits
o Colors
o Numbers
* Secondary Styles
* Complementing (Opposite) Styles
* What if My Cards Don’t Fit the Pattern?
* Stress Styles
* Repressed Styles
4. The Four Styles in More Detail
* Overview
o How they communicate
o How they make decisions
o How you can best communicate with them
o How to sell to them
o How they act under stress
o How they decompress
* Spades: The Thinkers
* Clubs: The Planners and Doers
* Hearts: The Relaters
* Diamonds: The Creatives and Experiencers
5. The Styles and the Innovation Process
* The High-Level Innovation Process
* How Innovation REALLY Works
* How Each Style Contributes to Innovation
o Phase 1: Define the Opportunity
o Phase 2: Find Solutions
o Phase 3: Strengthen, Select, and Plan
o Phase 4: Implement
* Getting a Balanced Team
* Organization Innovation Styles
* Making Your Style Visible to Others
* Style Description Sheet
6. Frequently Asked Questions
* Should I play to my strengths or improve my weaknesses? Can people change?
* I’m an entrepreneur. How can I use the poker concept to help me improve my business?
* What does it mean when people give me cards that are different than the ones I selected for myself?
7. Alternative Rules for Playing
* Guess Everyone’s Style
* A Full Year of Solitaire
* Focused Quick Cut
8. A Sample Script (of a 45 minute ice breaker)
About the Cards
These high-quality cards are manufactured by the same company that makes playing cards for Las Vegas casinos.
More in depth support materials, such as audio and video, will be available for purchase as part of our “virtual train the trainer.”
Licensing opportunities available.
Innovation Speeches Using the Cards
Stephen Shapiro is also available to deliver Personality Poker™ as a speech for your organization. He can provide in-depth insights into the innovation process and the innovation personalities. He has delivered Personality Poker™ to audiences ranging from 8-to-800 people. This is a great, high-energy session to kick off your next event. It can be combined with Stephen’s other speech topics.
Availability
We are taking orders now and will start shipping mid-July. We already sold out our first print run and are awaiting more.
To order, go to our 24/7 Innovation Shopping Cart
Patent Pending
* Some VERY big companies prefer that their name not be used in official endorsements.
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Personality Poker (TM)
Coming June 1, 2008
I just heard from the lawyers this morning, and they gave me the green light to tell everyone about our newest product – “Personality Poker (TM).” We applied for both a trademark (hence the TM used everywhere) and a Provisional Patent.
What is Personality Poker (TM)?
It is a fast-paced, highly interactive game that helps employees (and individuals) understand how they contribute to – and detract from – the innovation process.
How do you play?
All participants trade 52 specially designed poker cards with each other. The objective is to get a perfect hand that reveals your preferred innovation style and how you can best contribute to the success of your organization.
This game will help you discover…
- why the person you like the least may be the person you need the most
- how your innovation strength may ultimately limit your success
- how to get the right people in the right roles – and where you may currently be misaligned
- a common mistake that people make when selling to others – and how you can easily correct it
- how others see you – and how that might be different than how you see yourself
- if you work personality is different than your “home” personality – and why you should care
- why certain leadership styles are more likely fail…and what you can do about it
- how to improve your relationships – both professionally and personally
If you want to have 24/7 Innovation, where innovation is part of your organization’s DNA, then it’s not about finding your strengths, it’s about finding how your strengths work best with your team.
Remember, the person you like the least is the person you need the most.
About the Cards
These high quality cards are made by the same company that manufacturers playing cards for Las Vegas casinos.
In addition to the cards, an instructor’s manual will hep you play the game and interpret the results. More in depth support materials such as audio and video will also be available for purchase.
Licensing opportunities may be available.
Innovation Speeches Using the Cards
Stephen Shapiro is also available to deliver Personality Poker (TM) as a speech for your organization. He can provide in depth insights into the innovation process and the innovation personalities. He has delivered Personality Poker (TM) to audiences ranging from 15 people to 300 people. This is a great, high-energy session to kick off your next event. It can be combined with Stephen’s other speech topics.
We will let you know when the product is officially available.
Patent Pending
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