games to teach giving/receiving feedback?

[Scharlau, Dr Bruce A.]

Hi all,

I'm trying to find a game or two (or maybe just an exercise?) to teach people how to give/receive feedback in a constructive manner. I'm tempted by the werewolf facilitation game on tastycupcakes, but wonder if it might be too complicated and students will miss the point as they're getting too much into the game.

http://tastycupcakes.org/2012/11/werewolf-facilitation/

Any suggestions helpful. Thanks all!

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cheers,

Bruce

Dr. Bruce Scharlau
Dept. of Computing Science
Meston Building, Room 225
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
01224 272193
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[Elad Sofer]

While this isnt a formal game, When I attended Esther Derby's and
Diana Larsen "secrets of self organizing teams" workshop after they
shared a basic feedback model, we practiced feedback giving and
receiving by simply doing role playing with pre-prepared situations,
and reflecting afterwards.

I found it most useful at the time and carry with me the insights
until this day, and i am also using the same method when training
people about the topic.

Hope this is helpful,
Elad.

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[Scharlau, Dr Bruce A.]

Elad,

This sounds useful. Were the prepared situations the usual type of things you'd find in a team, such as late to meetings, poor comments on code commits, and other scenarios? Would you be willing to share your list of topics that you use?

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cheers,

Bruce

Dr. Bruce Scharlau
Dept. of Computing Science
Meston Building, Room 225
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
01224 272193
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc228
http://twitter.com/#!/scharlau
mailto:b.sch...@abdn.ac.uk

[Google]

There are also a few such examples in Jerry Weinberg's and the Seashore's book: 'What Did You Say? The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback'. This includes a section on creating an Interaction workshop based on the book.

It is an invaluable book that is based on Satir's Interaction model....No games in the book though a fair bit of story telling and humor.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0965043002/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

 I believe it just came out in ebook format as well.

Andrea

[Scharlau, Dr Bruce A.]

Hi folks,

 

Thanks all for your help with this. In the end I used Andrea’s suggestion of the Weinberg book to develop some exercises and then finished with werewolf facilitation. This filled a three hour session all together and went smoothly enough for now. I can highly recommend the ‘What did you say book’. It’s short and to the point with plenty of exercises you can use to build up a workshop.

 

http://www.amazon.com/What-Did-You-Say-Receiving/dp/0965043002

http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Did-You-Say-Receiving/dp/0965043002