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Objectives:
- enable trainees to demonstrate leadership qualities;
- to teach the ability to recognize the nature of the situation, to act adequately to the existing conditions;
- practice the ability to persuade as a skill necessary for a leader;
- to study the influence of rivalry on group interaction.
Band size: the optimal number of participants is 8-15 people.
Resources: not required. The exercise can be done both indoors and outdoors.
Time: 20 minutes.
Exercise progress
This exercise will require a daredevil volunteer, ready to be the first to enter the game.
The participants form a tight circle, which will in every possible way prevent our valiant hero from getting into it.
He is given only three minutes to convince the circle and its individual representatives to let him into the center by the power of persuasion (persuasion, threats, promises), dexterity (to slip, slip, break through, in the end), cunning (promises, compliments), sincerity.
Our hero moves away from the circle by two or three meters. All participants stand with their backs to him, huddled in a close and close-knit circle, holding hands …
Started!
Thank you for your courage. Who is next ready to measure the circle of intellectual and physical strength? On your marks. Started!
At the end of the exercise, be sure to discuss the strategy of the players’ behavior. How did they behave here, and how — in ordinary everyday conditions? Is there a difference between simulated and real behavior? If it does, then why?
Now let’s go back to the exercise, slightly changing the task. Anyone who decides to play against the circle will be required to choose and demonstrate a behavior strategy that is absolutely not characteristic of him. After all, we are in the theater, so the shy one will need to play the role of self-confident, even impudent, proud — “beat for pity”, and for those who are used to aggressive behavior, convince the circle quietly and absolutely intelligently … Try to get used to the new role as much as possible.
Completion: discussion of the exercise.
Is it easy to play someone else’s scenario? What gives us the entry into the role, into the behavioral stereotype of another person? What new have I discovered in myself, in my comrades?