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I am conducting an all-day training seminar, and would really like to start the day off with a game or activity that tests the employees' organizational skills. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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Organizational Skills
posted at 9/6/2003 2:27 AM EDT
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Try making up sample in boxes with a typical mix of papers and typical tasks that mirror your business. Give the group 5-7 minutes to get through the pile. Let pairs of people analyze each others pile and make comments to the group on what they learned. |
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Organizational Skills
posted at 5/4/2004 11:15 AM EDT
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You could create a Jeopardy-style game in PowerPoint or HTML (with frames) that tests knowledge and/or skills based on scenarios specific to the organization. I've used this in group training situations in the past, and it is both fun and educational, albeit a little labor-intensive.
Brian of visualcongruence.com |
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Organizational Skills
posted at 6/7/2004 8:37 AM EDT
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A game that I have used in an Org class that I teach at IUE is to take a Sunday paper and mix it all up.
Divide the group into groups of four and give each one a paper. Things that will happen: You will see emerging leaders You will see the stages of groups You will see org leadership traits You will see people retreat in |
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Organizational Skills
posted at 6/7/2004 8:37 AM EDT
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A game that I have used in an Org class that I teach at IUE is to take a Sunday paper and mix it all up.
Divide the group into groups of four and give each one a paper. Things that will happen: You will see emerging leaders You will see the stages of groups You will see org leadership traits You will see people retreat in |
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Organizational Skills
posted at 6/8/2004 5:25 AM EDT
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I like this idea a lot. Also, you could debrief by emphasizing that organization has flexibility: Person A finds a way that works, Person B finds another. Neither is right or wrong. . .and you can always change your organization approach. Another debrief point would be to show commonalities: People, by nature, are organized. We have to, or we could not drive cars or walk across a busy street. Therefore, we tend to group things into categories and apply other common strategies for assigning relevance to the countless stimulii we encounter each day.
[quote] On 2003-09-06 06:27, tlduval wrote: Try making up sample in boxes with a typical mix of papers and typical tasks that mirror your business. Give the group 5-7 minutes to get through the pile. Let pairs of people analyze each others pile and make comments to the group on what they learned. [/quote] |
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Organizational Skills
posted at 11/18/2007 12:36 PM EST
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I have done this many ways from PowerPoint style jeopardy games to the suggestion already posted. We purchased some training software from www.c3visuals.com a few months back and we where amazed at how easy it was to use but more importantly how it grabbed the attention of the class. At first I was hesitant becuase it cost money, it was around $379, but we have used many times now and there is no comparison to how we did it before. I guess you get what you pay for. You can play a online sample game right off thier website. What I really liked was once the game was made I did not need to install the software on the computer I was going to play it on. I just accessed it through our network and it worked. Hope this helps. |
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Organizational Skills
posted at 3/11/2008 10:37 AM EDT
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Although this reply will not help the original poster since it seems it was posted several years ago, I do have a great resource for these kinds of training games and exercises.
http://www.trainingtime.com/psps/pslist.cfm?psid=150 several products to help jazz up a training session or conference. |
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