Effective use of teambuilding in social welware organisations
Sample from this book:
Role Plays
The idea of the role play comes originally from drama teaching
and it can provide a useful tool in the teambuilding repertoire.
Because the situations, organisational styles and likely problems
vary so much through the statutory and voluntary agencies in the
personal social services, there are not many role plays which
can be offered here as being appropriate for all teams. Instead,
it is useful to look at the ways in which role plays may be used
in teambuilding.
is a sequence where the participants are given a description
of a situation, and the people involved. This can be done by the
facilitator having written up a scenario in advance and handing
out photocopies, or it can be done by the facilitator giving out
player-cards, which give each participant their part for the role
play.
In larger groups, it is best to organise the role play into groups
of about five to eight, depending upon the nature of the role
play.
Once the players have their roles, the facilitator invites them
to act out their parts in the situation with one another.
A possible scenario would be:
Place: Team office
Context: Interview for a new staff member
Players:
- Interviewee for worker post
- Local councillor
- Unit leader/manager
- Representative of funders
- Team member
Method: Allow the interviewing panel five minutes
to discuss their roles and strategy. Similarly, the interviewee
should spend the five minutes considering what skills they have
for the post and why they might want the job. The role players
then join together and act out the interview, trying to represent
how they think the person they are playing would behave.
Another role play sequence I have used in teams where members
know one another well, involves splitting the group into pairs.
They are then invited to swap personalities and in any given situation
role play their partner. For instance, the facilitator can suggest
that it is a team meeting, and each member of the pair should
try to perform in the way they think their partner would in that
situation. It can produce some very telling (and odd role plays!)
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