BE_PublishingBusiness Education Publishing publishes (or carries – many are from Franklin Learning Systems), a list of skill-building educational board games. All the games cost $50 to $55 on the site, unless noted (and generally far less, if bought using the link to Amazon).

  • Adverteasing: Trivia about TV commercials
  • Bank Account: A game about balancing your checkbook; first with $5,000 in their book wins
  • Budget City: Practice your money skills and budget your cash
  • Buyword: Mix math and word skills to form sentences ($40)
  • Career Challenge: Learn about the importance of different career options through trivia, guess my career?, and learning cards
  • Career Odyssey: Players fill out their talents on a grid, and then try to collect career cards that match these talents
  • CyberSafe: Trivia game to help teach the how to avoid Internet predators, Internet bullying, scams, and viruses, and teach good netiquette
  • Discount: Learn to evaluate when discounts are worthwhile
  • Entrepreneur: Business ownership skills ($100)
  • Ethics on the Job: Face tough workplace ethics decisions, and see your behavior, and the state of your entire office, rewarded or punished as a result of your decisions
  • Financial IQ: Learn about investments, income, expenses, loans, and interest
  • Hot Company: Roll the die, pick a company, and hope you profit
  • Ice Cream: Demonstrate business skills by running an ice cream stand for four days ($30)
  • Interview Challenge: Teaches and explores good interview skills
  • Keyboarding Trivia: Questions about the QWERTY keyboard, with spaces in QWERTY order
  • Keys to Job Success: Learn about job performance, following rules, dealing with people, and showing initiative
  • Networking: Learn how to network, bridge, and take risks
  • Overcoming Employment Barriers: Barriers include lack of skills, fluency problems with English, homelessness, physical disability, inappropriate appearance, bad references, and others
  • Putting Words to Work: Help Olin succeed at his new TV series job, and learn how to disagree with a supervisor in an assertive yet respectful way, how to criticize without lowering other’s self-esteem, how to show empathy, and how to be persuasive by effectively using facts
  • Stock Market Tycoon: Invest in the stock market, day trading, strategy, etc
  • Team Power: Learn to work in teams using task, people, self-management, and leadership skills
  • Take Me To Your Leader: Learn eight leadership skills
  • You Can’t Fire the Customer: Learn the skills (that should be) necessary for customer service positions
  • You’re Hired: Play the roll of HR, and learn good job search and interviewing skills
  • You’re the Boss: Play the roll of the boss, and learn how to be an employee with responsibility, reliability, integrity, and a work ethic

For more of these types of games, check out Franklin Learning Systems’ game collection.