At the LightBox Collaborative, we believe it’s easier to draw people into your idea when you’re having fun. To that end, we play games to plug into the purpose, potential, and promise of your organization.
Our game-based facilitation engages groups in accelerated strategy dialog—and the fun format belies the deep questions we help teams tackle on a regular basis.
All of our strategy games start with the Build-It-Yourself LightBox, a deck of cards designed to help nonprofits jump start strategic thinking; engage in real-time, dynamic planning; and identify actionable approaches. LightBox Collaborative uses this card deck to play a variety of games with your team to surface your bright ideas, shed new light on your greatest challenges, and flip the switch that moves your team into action.
Each suit of the card deck represents one of the four currents that surge through groundbreaking causes: Insight, Illumination, Inspiration, and Intention. Wild cards suggest activities to accelerate your organization toward strategic clarity to maximize impact.
Each card in the deck corresponds to the hardwiring that a successful organization needs to generate forward momentum, effective programming, and efficient processes. The hardwires are:
- Vision – A proactive and positive idea for the future.
- Tribe – The broad range of people connected to your organization and motivated by the idea.
- Context – A clear understanding of the internal factors and external considerations that shape success.
- Mojo – Your organization’s unique essence; that certain “something” that sets your cause apart from all the rest.
- Approach – The fundamental way your organization attacks the problem and creates results.
- Leadership – To be successful your organization requires good governance, strong management, and rousing leadership toward the vision – at every level.
- Team – No vision becomes reality without passionate people working together to take up the cause.
- Pockets – Your organization’s pockets need not be deep, but savvy fundraising and solid financial management can keep those pockets full.
- Microphone – Whether shouted from the rooftops or whispered in the hallways, every cause needs smart ways to spread the word.
- Operations – If the devil is in the details, then bedevil your organization with efficient, effective systems.
- Dashboard – The tools your organization needs to measure progress on the road to success.
- Work Plan – In the end it comes down to the brass tacks of a to-do list, as well as the will and focus to get it done.
So c’mon—let’s play a game to plug in to the potential of your ideas.