First and foremost, I must say that the game we played with the names on our back was completely pointless. This group has been together too long to need to play ice breaker games. We do not need to play games to get to know each other.
Now the excercise was quite interesting. I was tied on my scores Nuturing Parent and Free Child, but I do believe the nuturing parent role is more applicable to me. Identifying myself as the nuturing parent made me think that I truly to like to help and encourage people.
Seeing the group broken up into the sub classes was quite helpful. I could see how each person fit to the type that the survey placed them in. It was interesting to be able to see the classifications with people that fit the roles.
Looking forward to the next class.
Joey
Hey hey hey guys,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank you very much for letting me in :) I really appreciate it! At the first sight, I can see you did a great job here, both in terms of design and content.
Now straight to Joey's comments. You are right that it's quite pointless to play icebreaking games at this stage into our MBA. However, my take is that it was rather a plain-vanilla communication game: you only have this bit of info (or nothing at all), how do you make your way through? While this could have been irelevant for people with mighty life and work experience (as you are), it could have been worthy for some of our colleagues.
As for the EgoStates exercise, I only wish we had it months before. It would have been very helpful for us (as a class) to understand each other better instead of getting to dismiss attitudes and behaviours. Still, it is a powerful tool to be used from now on, right?
Finally, yesterday's lecturer, Mr. Schoorman. I don't know about you guys, but I liked his "no bullshitting" attitude. Deconstructing trust was very interesting and helpful - now we (supposedly) know better where we are, when creating relationships :) And boy! that "you only have one shot" is sooo true!
Looking forward to your thoughts on this,
Respect,
Alex.
Alex,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the EgoStates would have been more helpful sooner in the program.
As for Mr. Schoorman, I did not agree on everything he said especially Amercians instantly trusting people and the fact that no one has complete trust in anyone.
I am an American and generally I do not trust anywone, but once someone gains by trust I usually trust them completely.
Joe