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Communication Skills
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:: :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Coaching, Motivation, Giving Feedback
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Negativity is contagious. It’s all too easy to complain about everything that goes wrong and this can quickly spread to others. Fortunately there is a simple trick that can be used to eliminate negativity; simply don’t say negative words. Aiming for positive remarks helps people to get energised. Rather than looking for blame, seek opportunities to improve and progress forward.
Here are some examples of negative statements that people commonly use:
- Don’t do that
- We can’t do it
- It can’t be done
- We don’t do such thing
- It is against our policy
- We have never done this before
- It has never been done
- No one knows how to do this
- You don’t know how this works
- The management is clueless
- The staff are clueless
- They sit there all day and do nothing
- No one cares
These statements do not help and are sometime stated as a reflex reaction rather than with an appropriate thought. Sometimes they become a habit and it is important to eliminate them as bad habits.
This simple two stage exercise helps to increase the awareness of delegates about this issue and helps them to address it. It is ideal for delegates who work closely together or are part of the same team.
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:: :: Leadership, Exercises, Communication Skills, Decision Making
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This is an entertaining exercise encouraging delegates to think on the spot, make decisions and self-organise to complete a task. It is ideal for teambuilding and leadership courses to show the value of communication from all members and how a leader can coordinate the activities and information exchange to significantly increase the performance of the group as a whole.
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:: :: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Large Group, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills, Memory
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This activity helps delegates to improve their teamwork and communication skills while going through a specific task. The task is fairly simple. To succeed at their task, the team must be able to self-organise, communicate well, and work together to resolve issues. Optionally, if you have a large group, you can divide them to several teams where they can go through the exercise in parallel and at the end compare their performance.
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:: :: Roleplays, Exercises, Communication Skills, Assertiveness, Difficult People
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This exercise helps delegates to practice communicating assertively. Assertive communication as opposed to passive or aggressive communication is usually the best way to handle aggressive communication. The focus of this exercise is on learning how to constantly use assertive communication and not necessarily only at the beginning of a conversation.
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:: :: Leadership, Articles, Team Building, Communication Skills
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Research carried out on many teams in large corporations show that they use suboptimal solutions when dealing with conflicts in teams. Every time there is a conflict in the team, they respond in a way that comes to undermine the team rather than empower it. This article provides guidance on how to avoid bad responses to conflicts and instead use better a better approach known as Constructive Collaboration.
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:: :: Team Building, Communication Skills, Large Group, Giving Feedback, Appraisal
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This exercise helps delegates to better understand each other and also gives them an opportunity to provide anonymous feedback. It is a rather simple exercise though can be quite revealing as people get to understand what others think of them. The exercise works best when a lot of people are involved (for better anonymity) and who know each other well (for better feedback).
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:: :: Leadership, Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Problem Solving, Attention and Focus, Planning
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You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.
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