The road through the business park
Featured in the The Team Working Activity Pack training manual
By Rod Storey
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Consensus is achieved when everyone agrees on a decision or course of action, at least in broad terms, and is prepared to give that decision their backing when it is put into practice. This is a vital skill for any team if it is to make decisions effectively and put them into operation. This exercise gives participants an opportunity to develop this skill in a role-play. It also gives experience in chairing a meeting and the interaction of participants in working on a problem as a team, even though they each have their own points of view and aims.
You introduce the exercise depending on the intended purpose and explain what consensus is and how it can be of benefit to the participants when working in a team. Each of the participants selects (or you allocate) a role to take in the exercise. They then prepare for the meeting and one participant, the chair, runs the meeting. After the exercise the participants debrief their own performance and discuss together the learning points and how they relate to the real world of work.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to help participants to practise reaching consensus and decision making on a fairly emotive topic where individual interests are (partly) at stake, as well as preparing a case for discussion.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 8 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:45:00 |
| No of Pages: | 20 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers at the middle stage of a training course as a practical application of decision making and consensus. It is a good follow-on to ‘The clock’ or ‘The meeting’, and is particularly helpful when participants are having difficulty in agreeing a course of action. The exercise can be used away from a training course as a skill-developing activity, for example, as an exercise at the end of a team meeting to help effective decision making or teamwork. It also develops the interaction of participants; that is, how they work together as a team on problems.
Download the training activity, The road through the business park as featured in the Fenman training manual; The Team Working Activity Pack