Create deeper connection and improve people skills
Connection is a key part of what makes us human. It's the essential foundation for effective leadership and cohesive teams. Connection requires a mutual understanding of values. These values provide a foundation for strong relationships, motivation behaviour and action. But it’s not always easy, or comfortable to open the conversations about values.
That’s where Quinks steps in.
Quinks is a simple but effective team and leadership development game. It's a great way to have conversations to understand others deeper and to create meaningful connection.
Quinks is an engaging and interactive game that combines carefully crafted questions with contextual situations plus a values-mapping process, to encourage true listening and build real connection. Skills which are essential for people leadership, coaching and team effectiveness.
Quinks is perfect for facilitators, leaders and L&D/HR/P&C professionals. Experience Quinks in action at one of our free online events here.
Why the name Quinks? Questions that make you think :)
Quinks Gameplay
Draw cards
When playing in pairs, one person is assigned the role of Questioner, and the other the role of Answerer. The Questioner draws a Quinks card (a question card) and combines it with a Context card to create and ask a powerful question, that generates a conversation to understand the whole of person.
Connect
The Answerer has to spend exactly three minutes to answer the question. This amount of time allows for deeper responses than would ordinarily arise. The Questioner can’t interrupt them, but can support them by asking good, powerful, follow-up questions at the right time.
The Questioner then has to spend a minute paraphrasing and summarising the response, which means they must really be present and actively listening.
Valuate
Once both people have had their turn, they use the Quinks Values Map to convert what they heard into a representation of the other person’s values. This helps us learn the art of reading between the lines when hearing people’s words and stories.
Repeat this process a few times and at the end of the game the values maps are shared with each person. It’s a fantastic way of gaining better self-awareness and also increasing understanding of others.
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Delivery info and guarantee
Quinks takes about 7-10 days for delivery within Australia and 10-14 days for the Rest of the World.
If you are not happy with your purchase of Quinks we will refund you 100% of the price you paid. No quibbles. Just return it within 14-days of receiving the game (in good condition) and we'll process the refund.
Got questions? Please feel free to contact us on e-mail viren@inthegame.com.au or phone 0439 210 743.
What people are saying about Quinks
Our Story
I have run in excess of one hundred leadership development workshops, and attended many, many more. I’ve been subject to long tedious monologues from trainers and almost died a dozen deaths in front of a Powerpoint presentation. In that time I’ve observed how different people learn, what they respond to in terms of training materials and what activities create lasting change. What I know is that the introduction of game-based learning a few years ago into my own workshops gets an amazing response. The feedback is always clearly that participants felt more included and engaged, they had more fun, and that they could retain the information better as a result.
So I did some reflecting on this situation and my desire is to enable more leaders, more facilitators, more trainers, to bring the power of game-based learning to their training courses and workplaces.
The best way to begin this journey was to amplify and box up one of the games I developed for my own training. It teaches the key skills that leaders and coaches require: questioning and listening.
What fuelled the fire was a reflection on great personal and professional conversations that I had had in the past. I noticed they all had things in common:
- The person asked great, open, questions
- They really listened to my answers and then flipped back the conversation in a way that gave me new insights about myself
-The other person was interested in me as a whole being, not just Viren-at-work or Viren-at-home.
The game of Quinks replicates these attributes through both its structure and content, and the gamification makes it fun and accessible for everyone. And why the name Quinks? Questions that make you think :)