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

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178 LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE<br />

GUIDELINES<br />

• Catch as many balls as you can.<br />

• The balls must be thrown up in the air at the same time.<br />

• Say, “Ready on the outside?” “Ready on the inside?”<br />

TIME FRAME<br />

Go until you fi nish. Depending on the size of your group, it will<br />

take 10-15 minutes.<br />

PROCEDURE AND INSTRUCTIONS<br />

• Distribute the balls in such a way that everyone has at least<br />

two balls.<br />

• Everyone gets into a circle.<br />

Round <strong>On</strong>e<br />

▲ Ask for two volunteers from your group to come into the<br />

middle of the circle.<br />

▲ Have them give their balls to others.<br />

▲ Ask them to decide how many balls between them they will<br />

catch. They will announce their forecast.<br />

▲ Have the rest of the group throw the balls all at once and<br />

count how many were caught.<br />

▲ Let the group self-organize. <strong>On</strong>ly reiterate the guidelines;<br />

they must decide how to proceed.<br />

Round Two<br />

▲ Same as above <strong>with</strong> two different volunteers.<br />

Round Three and <strong>On</strong><br />

▲ Continue as above <strong>with</strong> as many rounds as you need until<br />

you have only two people left.<br />

Last Round<br />

▲ Now say that you received a message from the corporate<br />

office: “You now must catch all the balls. The balls repre-

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