8 RULES OF COMMUNICATION
Today we did teamwork exercises, and by succeeding in each exercise we had to communicate. First up was our cat. We got orders to draw a cat and give it a name, everyone was doing fine until we found out that it needed to be a specific cat and a specific colour, and we all ended up drawing a simple house cat, instead of a tiger which had to be brown.
Next we had the string game, 4 team members had to choose a leader for this game, in our case it was Jason. Three of the team members were blind folded, and a paperclip with a string attached to it were tied to the back of their pants. All the strings lead to the middle where there was a key tied to a separate string. The object of the game was to follow instruction from our team leader to work together and drop the key into a cup which was a walking distance of about 6meters from us. Sadly our team did not succeed, maybe poor communication from our team leader or maybe the team members just not asking enough questions, like how far or am I walking to fast? I'm sure if we got a second chance we will be able to pull it through.
Build me a tower followed straight after. Every team got the same resources to build any kind of tower, the aim of the game was that it should be able to uphold 500g. Everyone started with their own ideas our team decide to keep it small and simple and use alot of support (which in the end counted in our favour). We went outside and we found out the 500g will be dropped on the tower and no one expected that. Our team was confident, we used alot of support. Again we had to learn the hard way because NO ONE ASKED how its going to be placed on the tower. After we softly placed it on the tower everyone succeeded, the big drop followed and all the towers were still standing. I don't think we did to bad even though we didn't ask alot of questions.
Our last game for the day was called the egg game. The object was to drop the egg from any given height without it breaking or cracking. Our team decided on the Yo-Yo trick. We tied the string to the straw and the cup and we gently rolled it down for a good safe landing. All of the teams had different methods but everyone worked. WE DID IT!!!!
- Talk
- Listen
- Understand
- Body language
- Interpret
- Ask Questions
- Repeat
- Eye contact
Today we did teamwork exercises, and by succeeding in each exercise we had to communicate. First up was our cat. We got orders to draw a cat and give it a name, everyone was doing fine until we found out that it needed to be a specific cat and a specific colour, and we all ended up drawing a simple house cat, instead of a tiger which had to be brown.
Next we had the string game, 4 team members had to choose a leader for this game, in our case it was Jason. Three of the team members were blind folded, and a paperclip with a string attached to it were tied to the back of their pants. All the strings lead to the middle where there was a key tied to a separate string. The object of the game was to follow instruction from our team leader to work together and drop the key into a cup which was a walking distance of about 6meters from us. Sadly our team did not succeed, maybe poor communication from our team leader or maybe the team members just not asking enough questions, like how far or am I walking to fast? I'm sure if we got a second chance we will be able to pull it through.
Build me a tower followed straight after. Every team got the same resources to build any kind of tower, the aim of the game was that it should be able to uphold 500g. Everyone started with their own ideas our team decide to keep it small and simple and use alot of support (which in the end counted in our favour). We went outside and we found out the 500g will be dropped on the tower and no one expected that. Our team was confident, we used alot of support. Again we had to learn the hard way because NO ONE ASKED how its going to be placed on the tower. After we softly placed it on the tower everyone succeeded, the big drop followed and all the towers were still standing. I don't think we did to bad even though we didn't ask alot of questions.
Our last game for the day was called the egg game. The object was to drop the egg from any given height without it breaking or cracking. Our team decided on the Yo-Yo trick. We tied the string to the straw and the cup and we gently rolled it down for a good safe landing. All of the teams had different methods but everyone worked. WE DID IT!!!!
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