Saudagar Facilitated Game-Based Learning with PT. Wahana Makmur Sejati

Together with PT. Wahana Makmur Sejati, Kummara held a Facilitated Game Based-Learning (FGBL) for the company’s Planning Cycle on Wednesday (19/10). Attended by 29 people from Officer, Manager and Department Head, this session was focused on raising awareness about Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Teamwork to the participant. According to that, Kummara invited them to play “Saudagar” – a game specially designed for honing the sense of entrepreneurship, also leadership and teamwork skill, which is very applicable to this session.

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Located in Bogor, West Java, this session was quite interesting because it combined offline participants with semi-online game. The game itself was opened via laptop, then participant was divided into groups and played the game with the help of facilitators. In this game, they will roles as managers of start-up companies and compete to be the best team. Each team had one CEO and 3-4 managers who will help CEO to manage the company and ran the company’s strategy as good as possible.

Lasts about one hour, Saudagar board game had three phases to go through, there are event phase, planning phase and an execution phase. As a manager, player must put workers to four actions in the company: supply, production, distribution and training. Each phase must be well-thought by the managers and the decision must be given by the CEO.

After game session, participant asked to give their opinion about the Facilitated Game-Based Learning (FGBL) session. “This game help us understand about leadership and teamwork skill, also the ability to adapt in changeable condition and to optimize the opportunity.” said one of the participant.

Eko Nugroho, CEO of Kummara also explained that the participant feels satisfied with the learning session. “From the session, they (participant) understood how important to analyze the market, to applied in the decision making process. Also the importance of resource optimization, including competent team to be able to get the best result.”