Purpose
This is a suitable exercise for getting people in a team to express their feelings about each other but in a very indirect and controlled way. It also gives delegates a chance to see how others think of them. It also helps them to discover how much they know about other people’s view of them. This exercise is suitable for a group of delegates who know each other.
Objective
Write a statement about others and then guess who wrote each statement.
What You Need
- Blank cards. If you have n delegates, you need n * (n - 1) cards.
Setup
- Place the deck of blank cards at the centre of a table so that everyone can access them as go through the exercise.
- Ask for a volunteer to be the first Target.
- Ask everyone to write a statement on a card for this Target. This statement can be a compliment, a feature, or even a surprising statement. Examples are:
- Good listener
- A very charismatic leader
- Great sense of humour, miss him when he is not around
- Lovely person, but can have a tidier desk
- Extreme fan of Lord of the Rings
- Easy to work with, difficult to be managed by
- Collect these statements and get another volunteer to read them one at a time randomly.
- The Target should guess who wrote that statement. Keep a record of the successful guess as a score. You can write the score on the whiteboard.
- The first successful guess of the Target becomes the next Target.
- Repeat the process and get everyone to write a statement for the new Target.
- Go through the exercise until everyone has played the role of a Target.
- Announce who is the winner based on the highest score.
- Follow with a discussion.
Timing
Explaining the Exercise: 2 minutes
Activity: 20 minutes
Group Feedback: 10 minutes
Discussion
What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about other’s view of you? How good where you in knowing how others think of you?
Comments
By dangling @ Sunday, July 24, 2011 2:41 PM
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