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Q&A: Any ideas or suggestions for games to be used in leadership training for young adults?
March 27th, 2011 
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one of the classics in manufacturing – typically, piece of white paper and many sets of stickers, assembly line, stickers are applied in a certain order on specific parts of the paper. You want to make this fairly complex , with some overlaying. Different people apply different stickers. At the end quality control checks the papers to make sure they are done correctly and sends back any that are done wrong. Test with 3-4 runs, then set a goal that is fairly aggressive, x in 10 mins, with no more than y that have to be sent back.
Goal in management training is to see who gets things going, levels of cooperation, etc.
Another is to have different individuals lead everyone in singing a song, first getting agreement on the song. If you have some rhythm instruments, bells, tamborine, etc. that helps. Tell them this is leadership training, they are being measured on their ability to make a fool of themselves for the good of the group.
Try this web site it is great!!!!
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/gamesspecific.html
Role playing: You can have the young adults select a topic and have them form groups. For example, in our business class, we separated into 7 groups of 4 and each group created its own company–some were restaurants, some department stores, one was even a baseball organization. etc. We had to develop organizational and team work skills as well as learn to co exist with competition and/or have business dealings with unrelated companies. The exercise was very fun. Each group had to elect a CEO and representative…it was similar to a strategy game.
Another spinoff could be that the entire group is part of one company or one country.
i am 16 and was recently in the national youth leadership forum on medicine so i know a few superficially simple games that your young people can play. my favorite was called Squadron. in squadron, u make teams of how many ever u see fit and choose a general(highest rank), commander, and private(s). u will give them various scenarios which will test their ethical and logical judgment skills. ranks can b rotated so every gets a chance. the higher the rank the more responsibility. hope my advice helps!
Play blurps of music THEY listen to. Put them into teams like 4 to a team. Have them write down – for instance – 1-20 and play 20 blurbs each one maybe 5 words from the song that are usually “noticable” or “recognizable” and have each team right down the song and the band. A possible 2 points for each question. You may need to have one of the young adults help you with this one as you may not know the “in” music
We played this game at a leadership retreat and it was the life of the party. Bring gifts for the loosers (funny gag gifts – 1 for each team mate) Bring a decent gift for the winners.
Also, another great fun game is BUNKO. I can’t explain it but you could go on line or go to “toys R us” and get it. You play it in teams of 2 in groups of 4 sitting at tables. Then the winners at the table move on and the loosers stay put. It is a rotation game. You roll dice and it is a lot of fun. LOTS OF FUN. Investigate this game. You will be happy you did. Also, gift for the winner and looser.
I’m happy to hear from people like you, teaching young adults about leadership.
My suggestion is to get them involved with the 2008 Presidential elections. Get them to learn the candidates, research candidates background and grassroots in politics. Get them to create polls among their friends and family. Get them to learn the grassroots in leadership. I believe our young adults should get better informed in social services and grassroots leadership skills to get things done in their own communities.
Divide them up into teams:
4 per team
Then send them on activities which they have complete in order to get a surprise.
They have to chose a leader, questioner, scribe, and treasurer for each task and they have to chose a different person to do each job for each task.
The Tasks are:
A scavenger hunt
A quiz competition
A problem solving exercise
A trust exercise
The Leader makes the decisions, the questioner is the only one who can talk to anybody outside of the group, the scribe is in charge of the scavenger hunt list, writing things down, keeping score, and reading maps. The treasurer is in charge of keeping up with items collected and needed, prizes received.
For the problem solving exercise do a multiple component puzzle. We had a set of musical notes that needed to be played on the key board, a puzzle to be put together, and a riddle to solve. For each of these completed you got a different color flower, you had to put the flowers in the right order to get the treasure. Each task had a number and a color patch displayed on it somewhere. And that was the order of the flowers.
The trust exercise was to guide a blindfolded person through an obstacle course. The questioner was the only person who could talk to them, the leader decided in what order to go, and the scribe had to mark off the completed obstacles on a map, and the treasurer had to make sure all the treasure they had gathered was carried back to base.
They must bring the items they collected on the scavenger hunt, the ribbon they won for getting 500 points in the quiz competion, the treasure they received for solving the puzzle, and the blindfolded person they guided with their completed map back to base to receive a prize. In our case it was ice cream. We did it at a summer camp over 4 days, with teams going throughout the day.
A great activity is to put people into small groups 3-6 and give them mock or real resumes of about 10 people to fill a job (pick a job that fits the situation) and have them pick 3 top candidates from all the resumes and they need to then discuss why they chose those people and then they need to present to the larger group and as a larger group they need to come up with concensus on the top three. This is very empowering for kids.