GAME #57: Total Recall
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To lead participants through a review of “the basics” during multiple-day sessions.
❖ Time Required: 10 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of three to six.
❖ Materials Required: Flipchart.
❖ The Exercise in Action: In multiple-day training sessions, recalling the basics from one day is often essential to the next day’s learning, says Linda Duncan, a senior training officer at Norfolk Southern, McDonough, GA. So she starts each day by asking participants to write everything they can remember from the previous day, individually and without discussion. After everyone has completed their lists, Duncan gives them time to discuss what they’ve recorded with others at their tables. Then the groups take turns offering information, which she records on a flipchart. The method gets people thinking about the subject matter, she says. And because it’s done without notes, it is a good test of what points the trainer is communicating well; if no participants or only a few remember a particular item, chances are it was not presented as well as it should have been.
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