GAME #65: Coins and Catch Phrases
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To initiate class breaks and help make learning points throughout a course.
❖ Time Required: 5 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.
❖ Materials Required: A handful of coins.
❖ The Exercise in Action: Before her training sessions start, Jane Muegge, a rural community advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture in Clinton, Ontario, randomly tapes various coins to the bottom of participants’ chairs. At a point where the group needs an energizer or a stretch, Muegge asks participants to look under their chairs. She asks what they find, then asks how those various pennies, nickels, and dimes can be characterized by one word. When she gets the word she wants—change—she springs it on them: “And in order to make change(s) in the company, we need to get up off of our seats.” Participants then head off to break.
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