GAME #68: Going Behind Their Backs
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To help participants feel great about themselves and each other, and perhaps improve interdepartmental relationships.
❖ Time Required: 10 to 20 minutes.
❖ Size of Group: Unlimited.
❖ Materials Required: Small slips of paper and writing utensils for everyone. ❖ The Exercise in Action: Gary Ellis, in information systems training and support with Lennox Industries, Urbandale, IA, has participants tape sheets of paper to each other’s backs, then gives them time to mingle and write compliments about each other on those sheets. Ellis compares the exercise to the tradition of signing high school yearbooks. He sometimes uses this energizer as a transition from one section of a training session to another or as a way to build camaraderie in a group. In those situations, the exercise takes about 10 minutes. When the training content is related to improving communication or increasing cooperation within teams, he sometimes devotes up to 20 minutes for this activity.
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