{"id":1333,"date":"2018-11-27T09:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiefmotivatingofficers.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:20:01","slug":"whats-the-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiefmotivatingofficers.com\/whats-the-catch","title":{"rendered":"“What’s the Catch?” A Catch ‘Em Doing Good Card Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Cyber Deals Week 2018, we’ve launched our official web store! The first item available is our Catch ‘Em Doing Good Card<\/a> deck, which we featured in a previous blog when they first launched. The original blog<\/a> discussed one strategy for using the cards as a leadership tool to help prompt supervisors to watch for and reinforce positive behaviors at work. Today, I want to tell you about a different way to use the cards as a training tool for groups of leaders and supervisors in a game we fondly call, “What’s the Catch?”<\/p>\n

If you’ve seen us at a conference, you’ve probably seen groups of people playing a game with us, and it looks a lot like this:<\/p>\n

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Actually, it looks exactly like that. During FABA 2018, groups of friends would come back to the booth to play over and over! So what is happening here, and how can you replicate it with your team?<\/p>\n

First, you shuffle the deck of cards, and deal a hand to each person. In smaller groups, I give 5 cards, and in larger groups, I try to give 3 cards when possible. This allows for people to have options of potentially “easier” cards as they are becoming better at the game. Don’t show anyone else your cards!<\/p>\n

The person to the left of the dealer starts the game by selecting a card from their hand, and placing it face down on the table. They then select someone in the group to role-play a feedback interaction with, as if they had observed the person they choose engaging in the behavior they’ve placed face down on the table.<\/p>\n

Three criteria must be met in the interaction. The player must describe:<\/p>\n