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The “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Game

A game for members of a team who progress across the game board by naming and discussing different sources of complexity that may require adaptation.

Source: Syntegral

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A tool to build a team’s awareness of adaptation needs and highlight existing adaptation skills.

The game will familiarize you with responding to complex and changing situations while you build a shared language to talk about past and/or future challenges. This team exercise asks you to remember and share experiences with adaptation in order to build confidence that it can be done. It also strengthens a team’s ability for future adaptation of INSPIRE activities selected for scale up.

You should now have

  • Increased confidence in your ability to adapt and respond to challenges
  • Awareness of likely adaptation needs
  • A shared language for complexity and adaptation to apply to future scale-up conversations

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES AND FORMATS

Game board (English, A4)

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