Thursday 22 October 2015

The Alphabet Exercise - a ice-breaker leadership exercise

Here is an idea for an ice-breaker type exercise that you might find of value:

The Alphabet Exercise
An exercise used to help people to understand what are the critical leadership attributes that are most important to them.
  • Intro (5 minutes)
  • Get each person to create an alphabet of leadership attributes that are of most significance / importance to them. One for each letter; minimum of 20. (2 minutes)
  • Collate a group-wide super-set of the attributes chosen by getting people to vocalise what they have written down. (10 minutes)
  • Now get everyone to filter their individual lists to identify the 10 attributes that are the most important to them. (2 minutes)
  • Quick discussion: “How did you find that exercise?” (5 minutes)
  • Now get everyone to filter their individual lists to identify just the most important 3 attributes. (2 minutes)
  • Feedback session getting individuals’ perspectives on their list and collating a new group-wide super-set (on a white board etc.) (15-30 minutes)
  • Open discussion on the super-set. (5-15 minutes)
  • Overall time = 46-71 minutes.

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