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.
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Table of Contents
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
- Suits
- Colors
- 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
- How they communicate
- How they make decisions
- How you can best communicate with them
- How to sell to them
- How they act under stress
- 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
- Phase 1: Define the Opportunity
- Phase 2: Find Solutions
- Phase 3: Strengthen, Select, and Plan
- 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)