Futures Learning – Lesson 10
Communication is a very multi-layered, confusing and tricky skill we deal with everyday. From greeting the bus driver, to delivering your life-changing speech at work that may or may not cause the biggest talk in the office.
When people come together to branch out their ideas and thoughts, it can become bigger and better things! Yourself alone cannot simply just come up with fantastic, limitless ideas, you need to collaborate in order to communicate and make use of the best work you have.
When communicating, some people will deliver it differently to the way they thought out in their head. Or maybe the way it came across to you made you feel upset; See, we don’t all think and speak the same way. Every word, tone and silence, can change someone’s view.
Tony Robbins
To effectively communicate, we must realise that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
In the workplace, school or other places where groups are communicating, it is important to have activities in place to first of all, get to know each other, but learn more about how others communicate in certain situations and how they deal with the pressure. Fun games also influence the people to have fun and associate good experiences with the people.
Blindfolded Egg and Spoon Race Obstacle Course
Give each pair of participants: one egg, one spoon, one blindfold.
Create an obstacle course. Use whatever materials you have including trees, chairs, ropes. Make sure it is safe for a blindfolded person.
Create a start and end line.
Objective: For each pair of participants to traverse the obstacle course with a raw egg on a spoon. One person will be blindfolded holding the egg and the other will be guiding them.
The blindfolded person is the only person who can transport the egg. They can only touch the spoon.
The guide can only give information and cannot touch the spoon, egg or the person transporting it except at the start line.
Why is communication important? What value did it have in history? How do we use it in everyday life? Does it affect our connections with people? Find out in article linked below.
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