The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games by Mary Scannell

Author:Mary Scannell [Scannell, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2010-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

Group Size

Any

Materials

Paper, pens, or pencils

Time

10 to 20 minutes

Procedure

Split large groups into teams of five to eight people. Give each team a sheet of paper and a pen or pencil. For the first part of the activity, team members find out and write down what they have in common. To make the list, the commonalities must apply to everyone on the team and must be something you could not identify by simply looking at them (we all work at the same place, we all have brown hair, we are all wearing shoes). After five minutes, have someone from each team read their list.

If working with a large group, for the second part of the activity, you can either have half of each smaller team rotate to another team or have participants remain in their original teams. On the back side of the paper, have the team write down what is unique about each team member. That would be something that applies to only one team member (again, going beyond the superficial). Challenge teams to discover at least two things for each person. After seven minutes, have each person say one of the ways in which they are unique.

This is an excellent activity for conflict resolution as it builds awareness that team members have more in common than they may realize. The discovery and recognition of each other’s unique characteristics is beneficial as knowledge that we all have something different to offer the team.

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