Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers: Paradigm Shift

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Paradigm Shift

“Paradigm Shift” is an all time important issue. You being a faculty or a trainer must be finding the need to highlight the concepts of  paradigms in your various workshops and seminars irrespective of what topics or modules they cover. So, here is an exercise that you will find quite handy and useful in explaining the “paradigms” and “paradigm shift”.

Give each one of your workshop/seminar participants the following jumbled up pieces of words and phrases  written on a paper. Ask them to read the words/phrases carefully and let them select out at a time two of them as a pair such that in each selected pair one word or phrase is almost or completely opposite of the other word or phrase.

As a demonstration, select out from the distributed paper the phrases “Hard work’” and “Smart work”. Ask your program participants to make two columns on their note pad, the title of the first column being “Old Way” and that of the other being “New Way”. Ask them to fill the first column with “Hard work” as the old way of doing any work and the second column with “Smart work” as the new way of doing the work. Explain to them that “working hard” was an old paradigm and “working smart” has replaced it as a new paradigm of working.

Tell them that they should start picking up the rest of the pairs of words/phrases from the jumbled up list given to them and arrange the phrases/words in the two columns.

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Local                          Collaborate                       Work designed by employees
Add cost             Control-order-predict (COP)
Internal alliance                           Command              First time right
Idea-intensive production                                                    Uncovering errors
Individual courses
Lateral                        Add value                     Material-intensive production
High trust                                              Continuous learning
Low trust                                        Hard work
Work designed by management                                                   Hiding errors
Internal competition
Hierarchical                                      Acknowledge-create-empower (ACE)
Smart work                          Global             Rework

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They may need some fifteen to twenty minutes to complete this exercise. You may notice that some participants may give up some way down the lane.

Now ask the person who completed the exercise the fastest to shout out the arrangement of phrases/words in the two columns. If he goes wrong in some cases, you can invite other participants to correct. If no one volunteers in some specific cases, you can fill them in.

The exercise does not end here. Now ask the participants to extend the list in “Old Way” and “New Way” columns by at least 10 more entries. The opposing paradigms added by them should be based on their observations, knowledge, experience and their own thinking. They can as well add some new paradigms of futuristic nature through their own imagination.

Request the participants to present their paradigm shift extensions to the list with their explanations wherever necessary.

It is an experiential learning exercise and by the time they finish with the whole exercise they will have adequate clarity on the concepts of paradigm and paradigm shift. They would have also learnt and realized the importance and necessity of becoming flexible in their thinking patterns about various aspects of their personal, professional, family and social lives.

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2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and

Icebreakers

3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)

4. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories

5. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)

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Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers: Problem Solving by Brain Writing

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Problem Solving by Brain Writing

This exercise is apt for your training programs on problem solving techniques, creative problem solving, participative problem solving, creativity, brainstorming/brain writing, team work etc. As a faculty or leader of a workshop or seminar, you can choose a problem of a general nature that is somewhat familiar to your audience and then lead them in solving that problem by using brain writing technique rather than the conventional brain storming technique.

Brain writing engages the minds of even those participants who are shy of speaking in a group. The conventional brainstorming requires the members of the brainstorming group to offer their ideas by way of oral communication. In brain writing the ideas are written down by the members of the group.

To start the exercise display on the white board or the flip chart the statement of the problem- the problem that you want the group members to solve through their various suggestions.

For example the problem statement you choose may be: “In your opinion what are the various ways in which the human beings can tackle the environmental pollution problem?” Another suggested problem could be: “In your opinion what steps husband and wife can take to make theirs a happy marriage?” or “In your opinion what should be done in the organization to control the costs?” and so on.

You are free to choose any problem or you can even invite participants’ suggestions on selecting the problem. Having decided on the problem, paraphrase it in the form of a problem statement and display it for all to see all the time this exercise is on.

Distribute to each participant a blank A4 size paper and a pencil. Now ask them to write down on the paper as many suggestions they can think in order to solve the problem. They should give serial numbers to each of their suggestions and write in legible handwriting.

After every participant has consumed all of his suggestions, ask each participant to pass on his paper to the participant sitting next to him. Thus now every participant has a paper on which already some ideas have been noted. Let each participant read these earlier written ideas and if new ideas spring up in his mind he should add them below the already written suggestions by extending the serial numbers. The ideas should not be repeated. Only new ideas should be added up.

Again circulate the papers and repeat the exercise. This process will continue till the paper with the suggestions written by a particular person travels back to him.

Now ask the first person sitting nearest to you to read out loudly only the unique ideas noted on his paper. Repeated ideas if any should be skipped. As he reads the ideas one by one from his paper, you should write them on the white board or a large flip chart by giving each idea a serial number. When the first person exhausts all the suggestions from his paper, ask the second person to read out only the unique suggestions from the paper he is holding skipping out the repeat suggestions. Ask all the persons to read out the unique ideas this way and you should keep on extending the list on the white board/large flip chart. We will call this list a long list of ideas.

Now instruct that every participant should select out from the long list the most important five ideas- the ideas (which as per him) if implemented will solve a large degree of the problem. Advise them to maintain the objectivity. They need not write the entire description of the ideas on their writing pad but just pick up the serial numbers of the selected ideas as written on the white board (the long list). They should arrange those five selected ideas in terms of their importance and usefulness. Ask each participant to assign 5 marks to the most important idea, 4 marks to the next most important idea and so on till he assigns 1 mark to the least important idea.

Ask each participant turn by turn to shout out the serial number of their selected five ideas and the marks assigned to them. You will transfer those marks next to that idea on the long list on the white board/flip chart. It will be seen that some particular ideas will start accumulating more and more marks and some ideas may even be left out by all the participants. After you have collected the marks from all the participants and accumulated them against each of the ideas on the long list, total up the marks gained by each idea.

Now rearrange (by re-writing) the list of ideas in the descending order of the marks gained by them leaving out entirely those ideas which did not secure any marks from the audience.

Select out top few ideas (may be 5 to 6 ideas) from the newly rank ordered list of solutions in consultation with the audience. These will be those ideas if implemented will solve 90% to 95% of the stated problem.

The is a wonderful experiential learning exercise and you may not be required to explain much after the exercise is over. Your participants would have grasped the inputs that you meant to give them. The exercise will also act as an excellent energizer for the rest of your program.

Here is your chance of buying the book “Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers”:

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Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:

1.HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)

2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and

Icebreakers

3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)

4. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories

5. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)

You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.

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Persons residing in India may like to write to our email address prodcons@prodcons.comand order your copies.

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Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers: A to Z Review

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A to Z Review

Every workshop or seminar leader (faculty) like you sincerely wants to find out how effectively he delivered his program. You wish to know if your program participants grasped the inputs you provided them. Can they correctly answer the questions based on the contents of your program? In addition to meeting this objective it is a good practice to recap the inputs given in your program in your last session before concluding the program. This helps improve the retention of the knowledge by the participants. The best way to achieve these twin objectives is to engage the participants creatively in the review of their learnings.

Prior to actually conducting your workshop/seminar, you will need to prepare 26 questions the answers to which will result in the comprehensive review of the entire contents of your program.

Write each question on one index card. Thus you will have 26 cards with you. On other side of the card, write an English alphabet starting with “A” on the first card and going right up to “Z” on the 26th card.

After you have conducted all the sessions of your program, in your last session of recap and review, divide the participants  into groups, each group consisting of 4 to 5 participants picked up randomly.  Give each group a bell.

Now list the 26 alphabets in bold font on single sheet of a flip chart and display them. Ask groups to select any alphabet randomly.  Start with the first group first. Suppose the first group selects an alphabet say, “D”, then cross mark the alphabet “D” on the flip chart and pick out the index card “D” from the 26 cards you are holding. Read the question of this card “D” loudly and clearly.

Ask the groups to ring the bell if any of the groups know the answer to that question. The group that rings the bell the fastest will get the first opportunity to answer the question. If the group’s answer is correct, give the card to that group. If the answer is wrong, the group that rang the bell the second fastest will be given the opportunity to answer the question and so on. Finally the group answering correctly will get that card.

Second time the second group will pick up the alphabet from the flip chart randomly and the process as  described above will be executed.

Thus the groups will take turns selecting alphabets. As they select alphabet, you will cross off that alphabet from the flipchart and read the question written on the corresponding card. When a question is answered correctly, you will hand over the card to the successful group.

The game/exercise will end when all the 26 questions have been read and answered.  When none of the groups is in a position to answer the question correctly, you will provide its answer and keep that particular card with yourself.

The group that collects the maximum number of cards will be declared the winner. You may like to give a prize to the winner group. If number of groups are many then you may like to give prizes to top two or three groups.

Thanks the participants and conclude your program.

Here is your chance of buying the book “Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers”:

For owning your copy/copies of the book, visit the following Amazon.com sites:

For eBook format: http://www.amazon.com/Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers-ebook/dp/B004OEKF0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1323836948&sr=1-1

For book in print form: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers/dp/1461029945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323837139&sr=1-1

Our Books Publications (Books authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar)

Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:

1.HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)

2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and

Icebreakers

3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)

4. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories

5. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)

You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.

Or

Persons residing in India may like to write to our email address prodcons@prodcons.comand order your copies.

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For More Guidance, Assistance, Training and Consultation

Contact: prodcons@prodcons.com

Training in all the soft skills and various management functions/techniques is imparted by Prodcons Group’s Mr Shyam Bhatawdekar and/or Dr (Mrs) Kalpana Bhatawdekar, eminent management educationists, management consultants and trainers- par excellence, with distinction of having trained over 150,000 people from around 250 organizations.

Also refer: (Prodcons Group) http://prodcons-group.blogspot.com/, (Training Programs by Prodcons Group) http://training-development-function.blogspot.com/, (Productivity Consultants) http://productivity-consultants.blogspot.com/

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