Leadership Goals: To enhance your oral communication skills to better serve you in leadership positions.
Five Speaking Scenes
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Gain experience with improvisation.
- Practice speaking in front of others in a fun atmosphere.
- Develop an understanding of the challenges and benefits of speaking in front of others.
Reflection Questions:
- As a member of the audience how did it feel watching an actor, specifically the first actor?
- As the actor, how did it feel to know there was an audience and possible next scene coming?
- What does this activity help you to do?
- How does improvisation/in the moment thinking help or hinder an individual?
communication.doc | |
File Size: | 38 kb |
File Type: | doc |
Pretzel Activity
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Practice effective one-way and two-way communication
- Develop an understanding of the importance of effective two-way communication.
Reflection Questions:
- Was it helpful to be able to ask questions? Why?
- Did you find yourself getting frustrated?
- How would the activity been different if you hadn't been able to ask questions?
- Which is better: one-way or two-way communication? Why?
What Makes a Good Listener?
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Develop an understanding of the barriers to effective communication, specifically listening.
- Gain listening skills.
- Better understand the impact effective communication, specifically listening, or lack thereof, has on individuals.
Reflection Questions:
- How did it feel during the first activity for those telling the story? For those "listening"?
- How did it feel during the second activity for those telling the story? For those "listening"?
- How did it feel during the third activity for those telling the story? For those "listening"?
- What ways/skills/activities can you do as a communicator, both speaker and listener to encourage good communication?
Musical Paper Bags
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Develop your communication skills
- Develop teamwork skills
Reflection Questions:
- What was easy, what was hard about this challenge?
- How did people help or encourage each other?
- How did you work as a team?
- Did someone take on a leadership role or was there shared leadership?