Volume 11: Experiential Learning Activities
Volume 11: Experiential Learning Activities
Volume 11: Experiential Learning Activities
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<strong>Experiential</strong> <strong>Learning</strong> <strong>Activities</strong>:<br />
Teams<br />
Awareness<br />
System Problems: A Diagnostic Activity ...............................................................1<br />
Morton S. Perlmutter<br />
Project Colossus: Examining Group Dynamics......................................................4<br />
James V. Fee<br />
Bean Bags: Leadership and Team Development....................................................9<br />
Derrick Suehs and Florence Rogers<br />
Sticky Wickets: Exploring Group Stress ............................................................. 15<br />
William B. Kline and Joseph J. Blase<br />
Chips: Agenda Building....................................................................................... 21<br />
Charles A. Hill, Jr., and Edward L. Emerson<br />
Instant Survey: Creating Agenda for Team Building .......................................... 25<br />
Charles A. Cotton<br />
Meetings Audit: Planning for Improvement........................................................ 28<br />
H. Kent Baker<br />
Team Identity: A Developmental Planning Session ............................................ 34<br />
Kenneth W. Howard<br />
Team Development: A TORI Model ................................................................... 38<br />
Gary R. Gemmill<br />
Top Secret Contract: Group Dynamics and Task Accomplishment.................... 40<br />
Robert W. Landies and Tom Isgar<br />
Slogans: A Team-Development Activity............................................................. 48<br />
Suresh M. Sant<br />
Team Review: Communicating About Issues ..................................................... 51<br />
Allen J. Schuh<br />
Team Interventions: Moving the Team Forward................................................. 58<br />
Chuck Kormanski<br />
Roles<br />
The Seven Pieces: Identifying Team Roles ......................................................... 67<br />
Nadine J. (Hoffman) Carpenter<br />
The Car: Feedback on Team-Membership Styles................................................ 73<br />
Alfred A. Wells<br />
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Symbols: Sharing Role Perceptions..................................................................... 80<br />
Patrick Doyle<br />
Role Nominations: A Feedback Experience........................................................ 89<br />
K. Benne and P. Sheats<br />
Line-Up and Power Inversion: An Experiment ................................................... 92<br />
Editors<br />
America’s Favorite Pastime: Clarifying Role Perceptions .................................. 94<br />
Tim Hildebrandt<br />
Multiple Roles: Nature and Orientation............................................................... 99<br />
Manish Nandy<br />
Role Power: Understanding Influence................................................................<strong>11</strong>2<br />
Patrick E. Doyle<br />
Kaleidoscope: Team Building Through Role Expansion ...................................126<br />
Carlo E. Cetti and Mary Kirkpatrick Craig<br />
Baseball Game: Team-Membership Functions...................................................130<br />
Robert W. Rasberry<br />
Role Clarification: Developing a Team Norm....................................................136<br />
John E. Jones<br />
Position Power: Exploring the Impact of Role Change ......................................139<br />
Phyliss Cooke and Lawrence C. Porter<br />
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Clarifying Team Responsibilities ................................143<br />
Mike M. Milstein<br />
Tasks, Skills, and Commitments: Building a Cooperative Team .......................147<br />
Robert C. Preziosi<br />
Problem Solving/Decision Making<br />
Joe Doodlebug: Exploring Responses to Problems ............................................150<br />
Milton Rokeach<br />
Lutts and Mipps: Team Problem Solving...........................................................156<br />
Editors<br />
Unscrambling the Bank Accounts: Team Problem Solving ...............................162<br />
John E. Hebden<br />
Threats to the Project: Enhancing Effectiveness ................................................168<br />
Donald T. Simpson<br />
The Lawn: Problem or Symptom?......................................................................172<br />
William W. Kibler and William T. Milburn<br />
Control or Surrender: Altering Approaches to Problem Solving........................178<br />
Jim Ballard<br />
Action Planning: A Guide for Team Development ............................................187<br />
Robert P. Crosby<br />
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Fishing for “Why?”: Analyzing Cause and Effect..............................................202<br />
M.K. Key<br />
Team Checkup: Monitoring and Planning for Progress .....................................208<br />
Michael L. Mazzarese<br />
Turbo Affinity Technique: Choosing Team-Improvement Projects...................213<br />
Haller M. Moyers<br />
Hit the Target Fast: Designing a Communication System for Teams ................218<br />
Lynn A. Baker, Sr.<br />
Feedback<br />
Team Self-Evaluations: A Collection of Instruments.........................................222<br />
Editors<br />
Messages: Feedback and Cohesiveness ..............................................................230<br />
Gilles L. Talbot<br />
Graphic Analysis: Developing a Team...............................................................233<br />
John E. Jones<br />
Stones, Bands, and Circle: Sociogram <strong>Activities</strong> ...............................................236<br />
Donald E. Miskiman, John E. Hoover, Melvin A. Goldstein,<br />
and Donald Anderson<br />
Person Perception: Feedback ..............................................................................240<br />
Robert H. Dolliver<br />
Agenda Setting: A Team-Building Starter..........................................................244<br />
John E. Jones<br />
Dividing the Loot: Symbolic Feedback ..............................................................246<br />
Editors<br />
Team Calendar: Celebrating Significant Events.................................................248<br />
Marc B. Sokol and Douglas A. Cohen<br />
Nominations: Analyzing Trust Within a Team...................................................252<br />
Editors<br />
Creating Identity: Developing Cohesiveness in a Team.....................................256<br />
Editors<br />
Dependency-Intimacy: A Feedback Experience.................................................261<br />
John E. Jones<br />
Leveling: Giving and Receiving Adverse Feedback...........................................265<br />
J. William Pfeiffer<br />
The Advertising Firm: A Team Feedback Activity ............................................268<br />
Jeanne Lindholm<br />
Twenty-Five Questions: Assessing Team Development ....................................272<br />
John E. Jones<br />
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Team Sociogram: Communication Within a Team ............................................277<br />
Thomas J. Mallinson, Alan Tolliday, and Ron Sept<br />
I Hear That You . . . : Giving and Receiving Feedback......................................280<br />
Drew P. Danko and Rich Cherry<br />
Cups: A Power Experience .................................................................................283<br />
Anthony J. Reilly<br />
Yearbook: Positive Feedback .............................................................................285<br />
Bunty Ketcham and Alan Gilburg<br />
Sharing and Supporting Goals: Building Openness and Commitment...............288<br />
Richard L. Bunning<br />
Smackers: Team Mid-Life Assessment ..............................................................291<br />
Richard L. Hughes<br />
Team Effectiveness: A Team-Building Activity ................................................295<br />
John E. Jones and Anthony J. Reilly<br />
Power and Affection Exchange: Sharing Feelings .............................................298<br />
Gustave J. Rath<br />
Leadership Abilities: Constructive Criticism......................................................301<br />
Fred E. Woodall<br />
Team Mirror: A Feedback Experience................................................................307<br />
Editors<br />
Affirmation of Trust: A Feedback Activity ........................................................309<br />
Brian P. Holleran<br />
Images: Envisioning the Ideal Team...................................................................313<br />
Joseph E. Garcia and Ken S. Keleman<br />
The Genie’s Wish: Identifying and Addressing Team Needs ............................317<br />
Thomas F. Penderghast<br />
It’s in the Cards: Sharing Team Perceptions.......................................................322<br />
Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz, and Ava Albert Schnidman<br />
Bases of Power: Developing the Team’s Potential.............................................326<br />
Mary Harper Kitzmiller and Carol Nolde<br />
Strengths and Needs: Using Feedback for Team Development .........................334<br />
Terri Burchett<br />
Team Building: A Feedback Experience ............................................................345<br />
Editors<br />
The Helping Hand: Supporting Teammates’ Goals............................................349<br />
Kathleen Kreis<br />
Comfort Zones: Establishing Team Norms ........................................................352<br />
Chris C. Hoffman<br />
This and That: Improving Team Performance....................................................362<br />
James W. Kinneer<br />
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TeamScores: Measuring and Communicating Performance...............................365<br />
Peter R. Garber<br />
Conflict and Intergroup Issues<br />
Conflict Management: Developing a Procedure.................................................371<br />
Larry Porter<br />
Ajax Appliance Corporation: Exploring Conflict-Management Styles..............377<br />
Judith L. Grewell, Michael L. Gracey, Geraldine Platt, and<br />
Dale N. DeHaven<br />
Sharing Perspectives: Exchanging Views on Managerial and<br />
Worker Attitude ...............................................................................................390<br />
Editors<br />
Win As Much As You Can: An Intergroup Competition...................................395<br />
W. Gellerman<br />
Riddles: Intergroup Competition.........................................................................400<br />
Brian P. Holleran<br />
The Value Profile: Legitimizing Intergroup Differences....................................408<br />
Edward F. Pajak<br />
Intergroup Model Building: The LEGO ® Man...................................................4<strong>11</strong><br />
W.B. Reddy and Otto Kroeger<br />
Win What, Lose What?: An Intergroup Conflict Intervention...........................420<br />
Kenneth Finn<br />
Intergroup Clearing: A Relationship-Building Intervention...............................425<br />
Lawrence C. Porter<br />
Intergroup Meeting: An Image Exchange...........................................................427<br />
Editors<br />
They Said, We Said: Exploring Intergroup-Conflict Resolution........................429<br />
Jason Ollander-Krane and Neil Johnson<br />
Performance Unlimited: Solving Problems as a Team.......................................433<br />
James W. Kinneer<br />
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