4/8/2015

Play Your Cards Right:

How to Use Card Games to
Increase Learning Outcomes

Presented by Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan

and Tracy Tagliati

Objectives
• Provide an overview of the HRDQ Style Profiles.

• Conduct three types of card games to achieve

training objectives.

• Use the same deck of cards to play different

games.

• Creatively plagiarize the game structures to

design your own card games for training.

Three Formats
• Classification Cards

• Practical Advice Cards

• Fluency Cards

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The HRDQ Style Profiles

FASTER PACED

Tells

PEOPLE ORIENTED
TASK ORIENTED

Controls emotions Displays emotions

Asks

SLOWER PACED
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Self-Assessment
On a scale of 1 – 5 where 1 is “Not Confident” and 5 is “Very
Confident”, how would you rate your understanding of the
HRDQ Style Profiles?

1 2 3 4 5
NOT CONFIDENT VERY CONFIDENT
“I DON’T GET IT.” “I’M AN EXPERT.”

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Types of Card Games

• Classification

• Practical Advice

• Fluency

Classification Cards

What’s Included

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Card Index

References Personal
Style

Let’s Play!

Categorize Game #1
Classify

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Classify
Instructions:
• Review the text on the cards.

• Decide which one of personal styles each card is

associated with.

• We will announce one of the four styles.

• Determine which card represents that style by

correctly typing it into the chat box

1 2 3 4

Categorize Game #2
Straight

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Straight
Instructions:
• Read the text on the three cards on the
following slide.

• Identify the personal styles of each card.

• Jot them down.

Straight
More Instructions:
• Read the text on the four cards on the
next slide.

• Vote which card to add so that your hand

now has one card of each personal style.

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1 2 3 4

Practical Advice Cards

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Let’s Play!

Practical Advice Game

Best Advice

Instructions
• Read through the following advice cards for
the DIRECT communicator.

• Choose the one you think is the best.

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Speak rapidly Keep your

when you are relationship
1 talking to a businesslike when 2
DIRECT you are working
communicator. with a
DIRECT
communicator.

When you are

Be well
talking to a
organized when
DIRECT
3 talking to a
communicator, 4
DIRECT
focus on their
communicator.
goals and
objectives.

Fluency Cards

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Let’s Play!

Fluency Card Game

List

List
LIST
• The things you would find THINGS YOU
on the desk of a WOULD FIND ON
THE DESK OF A
SYSTEMATIC
SYSTEMATIC
communicator. COMMUNICATOR

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Compare

• A DIRECT communicator
and a CONSIDERATE
communicator.

Act
• YOU’RE FIRED!
• Your role: Spirited Manager
• Other role: Systematic Employee
• SITUATION:
• The manager must fire the employee.
The employee has evidence that the
firing is not warranted.

Self-Assessment
On a scale of 1 – 5 where 1 is “Not Confident” and 5 is “Very
Confident”, how would you rate your understanding of the
HRDQ Style Profiles?

1 2 3 4 5
NOT CONFIDENT VERY CONFIDENT
“I DON’T GET IT.” “I’M AN EXPERT.”

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Want To Play?

• Make your own cards

• Go to HRDQstore.com

• Go to Thiagi.com

Thank you!

Dr. Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan

thiagi@thiagi.com

@Thiagi

Tracy Tagliati

tracy.tagliati@gmail.com

@tracytagliati

@HRDQ

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