- Role Plays: Provide each team with a description of the characters that they will portray and the objectives for each team. Then allow them a specified time to interact and hold a debriefing after they've completed the role play to discuss the interaction and their ability or inability to complete their objectives. I've found this to work well in my international business class (negotiations between groups from different cultures) and in my personal selling class (group of salespeople and the customer, each of which has different objectives to be achieved).
- Jeopardy: I've put together a game board on a large poster board that allows me to set 4 categories of questions with three different point values (12 possible selections). The questions are based on the readings for the day. Students get in their groups and the students that answer the question correctly earn points for their group. The group that accumulates the most points gets a prize. I usually give each student in the winning group a lottery ticket. I tried candy as a prize once, but didn't like it nearly as much as the lottery tickets. While this exercise doesn't facilitate communication across groups, it doesn't help to foster team work and competition.
Cheers, Tom
Tom DeWitt Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Marketing
College of Business and Economics
University of Hawaii - Hilo
200 W. Kawili St.
Hilo, HI 96720
Phone: (808) 974-7384
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From: "Warner, Rosalind" <
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Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:48
Subject: application exercises across and between teams
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> I was wondering if anyone had some ideas on good application
> exercises that can be done between teams - I have, for example,
> asked teams to develop questions that can then be answered by
> the team next to them, etc. I would like to get some good
> discussion and maybe even competition going between the teams as
> well as team discussion within them.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rosalind Warner