Of course some of the best tools to inspire and develop a strong sense of creativity is through playing games. At ThinkLab, we have gone through hundreds of playtests and used tens of games to identify some truly useful games that work for our sessions. We do not use educational or learning-type games as their design and development is not based on our strict requirement – which is it must be fun. We sometimes use a word game to stimulate creativity like the ever popular Codenames or we might use an illustrative game like Dixit or the underappreciated Imagine. When using these games, specific words or illustrations can be swopped for gameplay that are meaningful to a company to help make a stronger link with the organization depending on your learning goal.

Many games can be used as long as the person playing the game is able to think differently and open their minds to a new approach so get a great facilitator, keep playing games and constantly try new things to increase creativity at work!