Our monthly blog
Each month, we muse about some aspect of negotiation, gamification or philanthropy and its effect on our work and world. Comments welcome!
If you want to take part in the discussion, you are kindly invited to join our group 'Gamification and Negotiation' on LinkedIn.
ZOOMING AHEAD The Delights and Challenges of Digital Seminars
This month Rational Games has been, like so many other training providers, engrossed in a valiant effort to see how much of our traditional training content can be moved online and offered digitally.
NEGOTIATING WITH A VIRUS: Lessons from the Corona Experience
This month, please allow me to do a more personal blog, on a topic that is on everyone’s mind all over the globe. But what does it have to do with negotiation?
PYRAMID POWER: Exploring Interests in Negotiations
The best negotiators focus on interests. They listen and ask questions.
The Red / Blue Game A Metaphor on Negotiation and Life
This month Rational Games puts the spotlight on our signature negotiation game: Red and Blue.
KILLING WITH KINDNESS: Care & Creativity in Negotiations with Difficult People
“Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo”
KICK ON ICE: Conflict resolution through hockey
This month, Rational Games is proud to present its latest grantee: the KICK on Ice project (KOI) in Berlin.
TRICK OR TREAT Negotiating in a Time of Tariffs and Tweets
The current stand-off in trade negotiations between the U.S. and China provides an instructive lesson for what happens when tit-for-tat slaps and punches become a proxy for true conflict resolution.
THE REPUBLIC OF URBANA: Play, culture and conflict resolution
This month I am proud to present our newest RGI grantee: the Republic of Urbana project started by the Munich based SchlaU-Schule for unaccompanied refugees from all over the world, especially Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq and Syria.
KEEPING IT SIMPLE Lessons from an Iterative and Player-Centered Interaction Design Process
In this month's blog Marc Kloubert shares what we learned about the importance of player-centred iterative interaction design during the design process of our PPC simulation application.
NEGOTIATING DIPLOMATICALLY: Impressions of The Back Channel
Topping my reading list this summer is Nicholas Burns’ fascinating and wide-reaching memoir, The Back Channel: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World.