Team building - It's good to listen
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Caroline Love & Aileen Goodman
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
To what extent do your team members actively listen to each other, and get behind the words that are spoken to the deeper meanings? For effective team development and learning, active listening is essential, as is genuine dialogue - dialogue in the sense of a process where people learn to think and act together. This activity provides practice opportunities to develop listening and dialogue skills.
You start off with a quick listening exercise and identify what helps effective listening. Then, half the group holds a 'goldfish bowl' discussion on the topical subject, observed by the other half. Those actively involved in the discussion then review their use of process and skills, followed by feedback from the observers. The whole group then moves on to identidy good practice for promoting dialogue in team meetings. The activity end with a short exploration of how to use the exercises in this activity in the workplace, and completion of a learning log.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to develop their participants listening skills.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:35:00 |
| No of Pages: | 22 |
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Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with participants to help identify and develop the essential elements of effective listening skills, and identify and practise the promotion of team dialogue. It can also be used as part of a training programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role, Team Development, Leading a Team, Team Communications, Managing for the First Time, Making Meetings Work, and Organisational Development.
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