During Lemonade , you run your own start-up for 1 day hoping to conquer the lemonade market. Lemonade is a thematized experience, you will make lemonade, compete with business rivals and haggle for ingredients. As a result, participants experience lots of energy and fun. Nonetheless, there is also a serious component within the game. As a participant you experience what your individual entrepreneurial qualities are, where the entrepreneurial talent of your team lies and how you could apply those skills in your daily work.
A run of Lemonade consists of a number of blocks:
- Setting the scene - a intro to connect the game in relation to your objective.
- Playing - teams determine their ambitions, brew innovative lemonade, order ingredients and seize market opportunities.
- Interim reflections - moments during the where the game is paused to allow time in which teams reflect on how entrepreneurial they are and how they can improve
- Finally - At the end of the game there is a secret finally to get all sales and negotiation skills to the top
- Debrief - a closing reflection in which we look back as a group, in pairs and individually on the day. Where did everyone's entrepreneurial talent lie? What was difficult? What just happened naturally? And how do you apply this in your daily work?