GAME #51: Admission Tickets
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To get participants thinking about the training course before they even arrive.
❖ Time Required: 10 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.
❖ Materials Required: “Admission tickets” and a set of instructions, prepared in advance by the trainer and sent to each participant before the class begins. ❖ The Exercise in Action: Denise Pare uses a variation of the course admission ticket concept (which many trainers use as a “tickler” to the class) to encourage students to think about what they want from a training session before they attend. Pare, a reading curriculum coordinator at Cy-Fair Independent School District in Houston, makes tickets about the size of a 3 x 5 inch notecard and sends them—along with a brief set of instructions—to participants a few days before her course begins. She then uses the cards as an opener in the session and refers to them over the course of the class. The instructions:
First line —Print your name.
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• Second line —What are your expectations for the course?
• Third line —Explain your greatest need in the subject area.
• Fourth line —Get the signature of someone with whom you’ve shared those expectations and needs. • Fifth line —Get the signature of a person who will not attend the session with whom you’ve promised to share something you learn from the course. Thinking about these things prior to attending, Pare says, encourages participants to consciously think about ways that a course can benefit them specifically, rather than passively waiting for knowledge to be served to them in ready-to-use portions and coming away with less than they might have because they neglected to apply lessons to their day-to-day issues.
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