Session: The Power of Play - Making Good Teams Great
Wednesday, 16:45 - 17:35
Track: Collaboration
“Screw work let’s play!” Do you sometimes wish you could goof off work and play? In this interactive presentation, inspired by the theory and experience of play, we’ll demonstrate why play isn’t just essential for creativity and innovation, but crucial to our survival and overall well-being. We’ll begin with the definition of play based on a 6-step framework followed by an exploration of why we play and how we play. We’ll investigate the relationship of work and play and demonstrate how, instead of being mutually exclusive, both are necessary for personal and group creativity and achievement. We’ll finish off with 7 guidelines for bringing more play into your life. And if you play your cards right, you’ll leave with plenty of ideas to achieve your recommended daily amount of play!
Prerequisites
An open-mind, a desire to learn and an appetite for fun
Expectations
Definition of “play”; how our definition of “play” correlates with theory from teaching science and developmental psychology; 8 "play personality" types; 7 guidelines on how to be more playful
Portia Tung
Portia specialises in Agile adoption and organisational change as a Consultant-Coach. She's passionate about realising and increasing human potential through Systems Thinking, Real Options and team collaboration. She strives to build effective and meaningful teams by pragmatically applying Lean and Agile Values, Principles and Practices. She's had a number of roles over the years, ranging from Java developer, to development manager, consultant-coach and faciliator. Portia's the creator of Agile Fairytales (www.agilefairytales.org), a series of learning games that help adults rediscover the lessons we learned as children but have since forgotten. She's passionate about inventing and playing games because she believes we can all improve continuously through play to achieve our dreams.
