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Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Hands-On ... - always yours

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174 LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE<br />

INSTRUCTIONS<br />

Read these instructions aloud or print them out and hand them<br />

to the team:<br />

• You have in front of you a bag <strong>with</strong> 10 nails and a piece of<br />

wood <strong>with</strong> one nail.<br />

• Take the nails out of the bag.<br />

• Your objective as a team is to get all the nails to rest selfcontained<br />

on the top of the nail in the piece of wood.<br />

• There is a confi guration or pattern to make this possible.<br />

• All you can use are the nails and your ingenuity.<br />

GUIDELINES<br />

• The piece of wood must remain flat and can’t be turned on<br />

its side.<br />

• No nails can touch the wood.<br />

• No nails can touch the neck of the nail in the wood.<br />

• Do not use extraneous tools to hold the nails together<br />

(e.g., hands, string, paper, cup, etc.). Use only your ingenuity!<br />

TIME FRAME: 12 minutes<br />

PROCESSING THE ACTIVITY<br />

GOALS<br />

• To help your team master teamwork and collaboration<br />

• To make your team more cohesive and high-performing<br />

• To reach consensus on the key ingredients of a Star team<br />

• To assess your team on these key ingredients<br />

• To affirm your team strengths<br />

• To pick a few key areas to focus on for team improvement

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