Mental Models Intro

Mental Model Game

Share & form thinking.

Monkey Business Idea Slides

What is a Mental Model Game?

Mental Model Game is a game that challenges the players to discover their minds. It helps individuals to understand

their own and their team's thinking. It aims to create better alignment within the team.


What’s your Mental Model about quality

in work?

What’s your Mental Model

of success?

Mental Model of the perfect

pitch?

Mental Model Game in Action


“Although people do not (always) behave congruently with their espoused theories (what they say), they do behave congruently with their theories-in-use (their mental models).”

- Chris Argyris, Harward professor of organisational behaviur, learning and education

Why is it important to talk about Mental Models?


Leaps of Abstraction = Do we notice the leaps of our Thoughts from observation to generalization?

1. Observation 2. Thought 3. Assumption 4. Generalization – assuming that “it’s a fact” 5. Action

More information about Leaps of Abstraction and the Ladder of Inference:

http://www.solonline.org/pra/tool/ladder.html

What Mental Models do in practice?


What are Mental Models made of?


Everyone thinks uniquely and wants to be noticed, heard and understood.

To discover, listen, and act with everyone’s thinking you need time and understanding.

Mental Model Game helps you to share and create thoughts with your team.

In real time.

Why bother about Mental Models?


Team & history

• 2006 we created this idea in a Team Academy Finland’s Creative Intellingence & Flexibility –training program coached by Timo Lehtonen. It was a team of 10 there innovating, and we had a task of creating a game - this was the outcome • 2008 we started to sell this idea as a partial content of Monkey Business coaching sessions • 2010 we created a product out of this idea and started to sell Mental Model Game sessions • 2011 we keep on building this product & recruiting people • 2020 …World Peace Game!


If you wish to contact us:

• Monkey Business www.banana.fi

• Henna [email protected], "twitter.com/hennaism

• Ville [email protected], "twitter.com/bananadotfi

• Johanna [email protected], twitter.com/johannahytonen

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