Mr Omid Haass from the Department of International Business and Asian Studies had his postgraduate students enjoying a game of mix n match cards in their Sustainable Supply Network Management for the Next Decade lecture at the Griffith University South Bank campus. Students learned to apply their communication, strategy, negotiation and problem solving skills by bargaining and bartering their half cards with other groups. Mr Haass said, ‘the team building activity was recommended to me by a colleague and the students found it both fun and enlightening.’
‘The game is designed to hone communication and negotiation skills, and make participants think on their feet.’
Omid Haass uses a card game to engage students’ problem solving skills.
Each small team is given a set of mixed card triangles. The aim is to negotiate and barter with other teams in order to match as many of their cards as possible within the allotted period of

