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(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia “Management Universe” at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)As a trainer, workshop coordinator or seminar leader, you can use this management exercise to emphasize several aspects like:
Think of any topic where the participants in your seminar may have different points of views and opinions.
Give them that topic. For example that topic may be related to addressing the environmental hazards affecting the individuals and how to safeguard oneself from them. Or you can choose any other topic.
Now request the participants of your program to discuss on the topic given to them by you on the following points progressively step by step and come to an agreement on each point (you should moderate their discussions making sure that despite having conflicting views points among them, the participants do not become adversarial with each other. You may use techniques like “six thinking hats” http://six-thinking-hats.blogspot.com/ or “brainstorming” http://brainstorming-technique.blogspot.com/ or “problem solving” http://problem-solving-skill.blogspot.com/ or “seven problem solving tools of quality circles” http://quality-circles.blogspot.com/ etc):
Fill them in with any additional inputs you wish to give and wrap up the session.
(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia “Management Universe” at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)As a trainer, workshop coordinator or seminar leader, you can use this management exercise to emphasize several aspects like:
- Many brains are better than one.
- Provided appropriate system of mutual discussion is adopted by the people involved in a group, it is possible to carry out meaningful dialogues and arrive at useful conclusions (many cooks need not spoil the broth).
- Without getting adversarial or personal or emotional, it is possible for various people with different viewpoints to pool in their creative ideas together.
- Thus, synergy works.
Think of any topic where the participants in your seminar may have different points of views and opinions.
Give them that topic. For example that topic may be related to addressing the environmental hazards affecting the individuals and how to safeguard oneself from them. Or you can choose any other topic.
Now request the participants of your program to discuss on the topic given to them by you on the following points progressively step by step and come to an agreement on each point (you should moderate their discussions making sure that despite having conflicting views points among them, the participants do not become adversarial with each other. You may use techniques like “six thinking hats” http://six-thinking-hats.blogspot.com/ or “brainstorming” http://brainstorming-technique.blogspot.com/ or “problem solving” http://problem-solving-skill.blogspot.com/ or “seven problem solving tools of quality circles” http://quality-circles.blogspot.com/ etc):
- What is the real problem? Steer the discussions towards arriving at the problem definition (problem well defined is half solved).
- What are various important issues involved?
- What are the possible solutions?
- What is/are the best solution(s) as agreed by the participants of the group with consensus?
Fill them in with any additional inputs you wish to give and wrap up the session.
Get Hold of the Related Books
You can order the following books on "management games and icebreakers" as printed books and eBooks from Amazon online:
- Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
- Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers (Volume 2)
- Classic Team Building Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
- 101 Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
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