Objectives
- To introduce session participants to key leadership skills
- To exchange perspectives on important leader behavior
Audience
A group of no more than twelve participants who are beginning a leadership training program
Time
2 minutes each for up to twelve participants
Materials and Equipment
- Easel with flip-chart pad
- Markers
- Two Debrief Essentials sets
Area Setup
Open space for moving around
Process
- Place fourteen foam Debrief Essentials toys on a table
- Tell participants to stand and walk over to the table; each of them should select an item that represents a particular leadership skill or behavior
- Ask participants to return to their seats
- Ask each participant, in turn, to stand and tell the entire group what leadership skill or behavior the item he or she chose represents
- Record on a flip chart each skill or behavior
- Ask the group to brainstorm other leadership essential skills or behaviors; record the ideas on flip-chart paper
- Add to the list based on any aspect of the course content that participants may have missed
- Lead a discussion about any leaders participants have encountered who have all the skills and behaviors that have been identified
- Segue into the next learning activity
Insiders Tips
- This should be a fast-paced exercise
- Ask an occasional question about a particular toy and the identified behavior or skill
Excerpted from Trainers Warehouse Book of Games: Fun and Energizing Ways to Enhance Learning edited by Elaine Biech.
Kitty Preziosi has over twenty years' experience as a company team leader and senior consultant for achieving strategic initiatives. Bob Preziosi is a professor of management at the Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University. Together, Bob and Kitty own Preziosi Partners, Inc., a consulting firm.
