Objectives:
- practice persuasion as a leadership skill;
- to develop the creative thinking of the training participants, their ability to expand the field of the problem and see the variety of approaches to solving the problem;
- help group members to understand themselves and understand the nature of their leadership qualities;
- to practice in the negotiation process as a way to resolve the conflict.
Band size: not important.
Resources: not required.
Time: up to an hour.
Course of the game
The coach asks the participants to listen carefully to the legend of the game.
— You are the head of a small department of a large political consulting firm. A decisive meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, early in the morning, at which you must present to the customer — a candidate for an elected municipal position — the strategy of his election campaign.
The customer demands to acquaint him with all the elements of promotional products: sketches of posters, campaign leaflets, texts of announcements, articles.
Due to a fatal misunderstanding, the finished material was erased from the computer’s memory, so that both the copywriter and the graphic artist need to restore the entire volume of proposals to the customer. You only now, at 18.30, realized what happened. The work day is almost over. It takes at least one and a half to two hours to restore the lost material.
But there are additional problems: your copywriter got a ticket for a concert of his dream band, Metallica, for a lot of money. He’s a real heavy rock fan, and you know the show starts in an hour and a half.
Also, your fellow scheduler is celebrating their first wedding anniversary today. She shared with you her plans to meet her husband from work with a surprise — a romantic dinner for two by candlelight. So already now she looks at her watch impatiently to run home and have time to finish all the preparations before her husband returns from work.
What to do?!
Your task as the head of the department is to convince the employees to stay and prepare the materials.
After reading the task, we invite three participants to try their hand at the stage, playing a conversation between the leader and his subordinates. You can imagine several attempts, in each of which the composition of the participants will be different. It is important that, after each performance, the coach checks the status by asking the audience:
Do you believe that the task will be completed by morning?
Completion
- How did this role play help you understand the secrets of the negotiation process?
- What was the conflict resolution style?
- What individual features of negotiation did the game reveal in the participants of the training?