Leadership and Personal Development Group Activities

Managing Data

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Informatie vanuit verschillende disciplinaire perspectieven in een gedeelde document verzamelen en categoriseren.

Alligator River

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An exercise designed to investigate value based conflict, decision making, highlights the challenges of establishing right and wrong with different perspectives.

Clear Communication

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In any content area, one difference between a beginner and an expert is the latter's ability to come up with different examples that belong to the same category. This activity strengthens your ability to come up with examples of communication concepts.

Angry Customers

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Training Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to handle angry and abusive customers is a tough challenge. Effective communication with an angry customer requires a combination of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. As a part of our training session, we use this rapid roleplay activity.

Drawing Together

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You can help people access hidden knowledge such as feelings, attitudes, and patterns that are difficult to express with words. When people are tired, their brains are full, and they have reached the limits of logical thinking, you can help them evoke ideas that lie outside logical, step-by-step understanding of what is possible. Stories about individual or group transformations can be told with five easy-to-draw symbols that have universal meanings. The playful spirit of drawing together signals that more is possible and many new answers are expected. Drawing Together cuts through the culture of overreliance on what people say and write that constrains the emergence of novelty. It also provides a new avenue of expression for some people whose ideas would otherwise not surface. This structure brings to life LS principle #7, Emphasize Possibilities: Believe Before You See.

Fishbowl

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The Fishbowl game is an effective way to activate attention—to prime our natural listening and observing skills so that a more substantive conversation can take place.

CALQ discussion

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Een CALQ-discussie laat studenten de kernboodschap van colleges verduidelijken en met elkaar te bespreken.

Cover Up

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This exercise deals with the importance of unlearning. The facilitator gives instructions to cover one of your ears or eyes. Later, the facilitator refers to the left ear as nose and the right eye as mouth. Subsequent instructions slow down your performance.

Leadership Advice from Your Role Model

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This structured sharing activity provides a faster, cheaper, and better alternative to buying and reading a lot of books: You tap into the wisdom of the group—and of their role models.

Managing behaviours

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Increase your communication skills. Role play to help you recognize and manage different behaviours in a virtual environment (or not!)