Challenging Group Initiative For Memory - Verbal Number Exchange
Challenging Group Initiative For Memory - Verbal Number Exchange is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Ask your group to stand in a circle.
- Ask one person to start numbering off by calling out “ONE.”
- The person to their left calls “TWO” and so on around the circle until every person has called a number in sequence.
- When ready, instruct every person to mingle with five other people in the group and exchange numbers with them.
- Reiterate that each person will exchange numbers only five times with five different people.
- Challenge your group to not use any forms of visual cues to communicate or record their number, ie all communication must be verbal.
- Instruct each person to stop mingling with others when they have exchanged numbers five times.
- Verbal Number Exchange Challenging group initiative to focus on memory & communication skills.
- Verbal Number Exchange is a challenging group initiative that shows groups how much they can achieve when they listen carefully and support each other through difficult tasks.
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Ask your group to stand in a circle.
Ask one person to start numbering off by calling out “ONE.”
Challenge your group to not use any forms of visual cues to communicate or record their number, ie all communication must be verbal.
Instruct each person to stop mingling with others when they have exchanged numbers five times.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Challenging Group Initiative For Memory - Verbal Number Exchange. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your group to stand in a circle.; Ask one person to start numbering off by calling out “ONE.”; Challenge your group to not use any forms of visual cues to communicate or record their number, ie all communication must be verbal.; Instruct each person to stop mingling with others when they have exchanged numbers five times.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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