Perfect Employees - Free Energiser Training Course Materials
Perfect Employees - Free Energiser Training Course Materials is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- Ask participants to work as a group to brainstorm all of the traits they expect from their employees and what they would like them to be able to do to support the manager in achieving their goals. This should be headed, ‘Perfect Employee’ on the flipchart and notes made below.
- Once you have a list, it’s worthwhile prioritising the list and ranking what’s most important.
- Now that your participants have a list and are feeling very proud of themselves, it is time to flip the activity on its head.
- Place up another flipchart and ask the participants, ‘What do YOU need to do as a manager to help your employees become this perfect employee?
- Flipchart the things that the managers need to do to help their employees.
- From the list, discuss the key actions the managers can take to help develop their employees.
- Ask them to action plan their ideas, giving dates of completion for the actions and committing to achieve them.
- In review, discuss why it is the managers responsibility to support their employees (linking back to the training where you can) and what the impact of this will be for the business and the manager.
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Ask participants to work as a group to brainstorm all of the traits they expect from their employees and what they would like them to be able to do to support the manager in achieving their goals. This should be headed, ‘Perfect Employee’ on the flipchart and notes made below.
Once you have a list, it’s worthwhile prioritising the list and ranking what’s most important.
Now that your participants have a list and are feeling very proud of themselves, it is time to flip the activity on its head.
Place up another flipchart and ask the participants, ‘What do YOU need to do as a manager to help your employees become this perfect employee?
From the list, discuss the key actions the managers can take to help develop their employees.
Ask them to action plan their ideas, giving dates of completion for the actions and committing to achieve them.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Perfect Employees - Free Energiser Training Course Materials. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask participants to work as a group to brainstorm all of the traits they expect from their employees and what they would like them to be able to do to support the manager in achieving their goals. This should be headed, ‘Perfect Employee’ on the flipchart and notes made below.; Once you have a list, it’s worthwhile prioritising the list and ranking what’s most important.; Now that your participants have a list and are feeling very proud of themselves, it is time to flip the activity on its head.; Place up another flipchart and ask the participants, ‘What do YOU need to do as a manager to help your employees become this perfect employee?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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