In this interview, we meet Nadia Benedetti, a Game Thinking Facilitator and the founder of PlaynBe in Paris. Once the lockdown was announced she had to change focus of her activity from in-person to remote sessions. It took her a month to re-design the workshop's flow to adapt it to virtual collaboration. Her experience where Nadia had managed teams at distance for the last five years came in handy. Unlike many other facilitators whose clients cancelled everything, Nadia delivered about three workshops per week. She noticed that her clients which were international companies had less resistance and an easier time adapting to the remote collaboration, than the local businesses. Once they saw they got real value out of it, they gradually grew used to it.  

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About the Guest  

Nadia Benedetti is a Game Thinking Coach and professional facilitator, she uses the power of play to put teams in action and train their creative intelligence in solving problems, and innovating, especially when facing change and complexity.  Nadia is an Italian native. She moved to France to develop an international career in the world of publishing and educational toys. For 18 years, she had the chance to travel and to meet multicultural teams with different backgrounds. Facing the complexity of remote working, she learned how success depends above all on the ability to collaborate creatively. At the same time, she experienced the power of playful activities to mobilize teams. She then trained in coaching, creative facilitation, and gamification. In 2018 she created PlaynBe, my own company, specialized in corporate training and facilitation through the power of play.  

PlaynBe introduces play at work for agile learning, team development, and product innovation. We help managers to innovate their practices toward collaboration, collective intelligence, and creativity. In particular, we design playful workshops to help teams in risk-taking, critical thinking, problem-solving, and strategy. We apply Game Thinking approach to bring innovative projects to life in a faster and better way. Our purpose is to teach teams how to activate their creative intelligence to transform change into an opportunity for evolution and becoming a real player in the organization. For the organizations, our playful learning approach is a simple way to bring the key competencies and great fulfilment in the digital and agile transformation.  https://www.playnbe.com