London -The high -speed poker goes to work, thanks to a passionate player with cards who is determined to share their skills to help employees master strategic thinking at work.
When it comes to poker, Jo Living knows his path around the table. She grew up around the tickets because both parents were bridge teachers. She told CBS News that she could mix at the age of five. But she never took her hand to play poker until she was in 30, and he never fell in love with the game until a trip to Morocco almost 10 years ago.
“I was pregnant and I was sitting in a smoked Moroccan casino at four in the morning, and in fact I just beat 200 men to win my first international poker tournament,” she told the CBS News as she sat at a poker table to teach the game skills to others. Her great victory in Africa gave her a big idea.
Life started hosting home games and teaching a game with often male men’s friends and said she “quickly saw them growing in confidence, closing customers’ offers and landing promotions.”
Move forward for several years, and life has founded its society, Aces High. He runs poker workshops throughout the UK, aiming to strengthen employees – and especially women – to raise their game in a wide range of companies.
“People think it’s bluffing and courage, but it’s actually a lot of women’s skills,” she said. “It’s so much Skill with poker table who are transmitted to the table with them, from negotiations, communication, deep listening. “
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Stepping Stone Media was one of the latest companies that received ACES High Makeover, and poker tables entered their London office, along with cards, merchants and betting chips.
“I mean, I feel good, I wouldn’t mind being honest more often,” David Mynard CEO told CBS News.
Mynard said everything was, if he would help his employees play their best hand at work.
“I really love the idea of taking a poker game and thinking about how to translate it, how we can learn about ourselves and hope to develop our own communication and reading of other people,” he told CBS News.
More than a dozen employees were sitting around the poker tables, some new in the game, others with experience, because their lives led them through the exercises in decisions, risked by making and re -examining decisions while playing.
Chief merchant Jimi Sotimehin, who has solved the World Series of Poker, says he likes to bring the game to work.
“I have the best place in the house, I never lose!” He jokes.
There is no money at ACES for high events. The chips are made of chocolate. Living says everything about betting on yourself … no matter what kind of hand you have gained.
Seeks the franchise of their ace high workshops across the UK and, eventually, in the USA
