Post by zippyzack on Jul 2, 2006 21:16:19 GMT -5
1) Icebreakers (we all know many by now, for example, "murder handshake", or "Ah-So-Yu", etc)
2) Animal Styles
Leader in charge draws the leadership animals (turtle, teddy bear, owl, shark) on chart paper and asks the group "what makes a(n) (name of animal) a good leader?" Record suggestions and repeat for each animal. Leader can add any extra qualities they feel may have been missed. After the chart is completed ask leaders to identify which animal and leaderhip styles they identify with. Which style do you least identify with?
Now ask and have the group respond to, "What makes a(n) (name of animal) an ineffective leader?" Repeat for each animal. What would it be like if everyone in the group were a(n) (name of animal), would anything get done? Why? Repeat for each animal, taking responses from the group.
The Bard Leader: In the days of old there were people who traveled around and were comfortable doing many different types of tasks. They could be musicians, barbers, dentists, actors, stable hands, etc. These people were known as "jack of all trades but master of none," therefore they were comfortable doing whatever role was missing from the community. A Bard leader is able to look at the situation and assess what leadership style is missing and then take on that role.
Situation to think about: If there was a car accident, which leadership style would you want to arrive first? Why? Who would arrive next, etc. (likely order of responses: shark, owl, teddy bear, turtle)
3) Island Walk
i) Set up one row of (number of required chairs, one per student) chairs, facing in, on one side of the room. The whole section needs to be able to stand on them in a single file.
ii) Set up a second row of chairs, facing in, on the opposite side of the room. To increase the challenge, do not have the rows directly opposite each other, and take advantage of built-in obstacles in your facility.
ACTIVITY:
Your section's space ship has crash-landed on an island surrounded by boiling lava. Within the physical make-up of your section is contained the complete DNA record of all of the species from your doomed home planet. The island you crash landed on is slowly sinking and soon you will all perish. The only way to save your section is by crossing the lava to the sager island on the opposite side of the room. The only way to safely cross the boiling lava is by stepping on the "fireproof leaves" your team managed to collect before the island started skining. A leaf is only "fireproof" as long as itis in physical contact with someone and it is not ripped in two or slid along the ground. Once contact is broken the leaf "burns up" and can no longer be used. All the members of your section must stay in constant physical contact in order for the DNA chain to remain intact. As soon as you break the chain, the DNA from the whole species from your home planet will be lost.
Ideas for making it more challenging:
-A few people who are mute
-A blind person
-A person with a physical disability
DEBRIEF:
-How do you feel?
-So what did we just do? (the "what" question)
-What kind of leader were you?
-What would have happened if there were all sharks?
-Did your leadership style change according to the problem?
-Were you the leadership style you thought you are in real life?
-So what importance does this hold for us? ("So what" question)
-How did feel to be silenced/blind/disabled?
-Any other comments about the process?
-Now where do we go from here? What's different now? What did we learn? How does this relate to our other avenues? ("now what" question)
THAT'S IT! GOOD LUCK!
2) Animal Styles
Leader in charge draws the leadership animals (turtle, teddy bear, owl, shark) on chart paper and asks the group "what makes a(n) (name of animal) a good leader?" Record suggestions and repeat for each animal. Leader can add any extra qualities they feel may have been missed. After the chart is completed ask leaders to identify which animal and leaderhip styles they identify with. Which style do you least identify with?
Now ask and have the group respond to, "What makes a(n) (name of animal) an ineffective leader?" Repeat for each animal. What would it be like if everyone in the group were a(n) (name of animal), would anything get done? Why? Repeat for each animal, taking responses from the group.
The Bard Leader: In the days of old there were people who traveled around and were comfortable doing many different types of tasks. They could be musicians, barbers, dentists, actors, stable hands, etc. These people were known as "jack of all trades but master of none," therefore they were comfortable doing whatever role was missing from the community. A Bard leader is able to look at the situation and assess what leadership style is missing and then take on that role.
Situation to think about: If there was a car accident, which leadership style would you want to arrive first? Why? Who would arrive next, etc. (likely order of responses: shark, owl, teddy bear, turtle)
3) Island Walk
i) Set up one row of (number of required chairs, one per student) chairs, facing in, on one side of the room. The whole section needs to be able to stand on them in a single file.
ii) Set up a second row of chairs, facing in, on the opposite side of the room. To increase the challenge, do not have the rows directly opposite each other, and take advantage of built-in obstacles in your facility.
ACTIVITY:
Your section's space ship has crash-landed on an island surrounded by boiling lava. Within the physical make-up of your section is contained the complete DNA record of all of the species from your doomed home planet. The island you crash landed on is slowly sinking and soon you will all perish. The only way to save your section is by crossing the lava to the sager island on the opposite side of the room. The only way to safely cross the boiling lava is by stepping on the "fireproof leaves" your team managed to collect before the island started skining. A leaf is only "fireproof" as long as itis in physical contact with someone and it is not ripped in two or slid along the ground. Once contact is broken the leaf "burns up" and can no longer be used. All the members of your section must stay in constant physical contact in order for the DNA chain to remain intact. As soon as you break the chain, the DNA from the whole species from your home planet will be lost.
Ideas for making it more challenging:
-A few people who are mute
-A blind person
-A person with a physical disability
DEBRIEF:
-How do you feel?
-So what did we just do? (the "what" question)
-What kind of leader were you?
-What would have happened if there were all sharks?
-Did your leadership style change according to the problem?
-Were you the leadership style you thought you are in real life?
-So what importance does this hold for us? ("So what" question)
-How did feel to be silenced/blind/disabled?
-Any other comments about the process?
-Now where do we go from here? What's different now? What did we learn? How does this relate to our other avenues? ("now what" question)
THAT'S IT! GOOD LUCK!
