After I finished our group facilitation, I participated in another activity which another team organized. The activity which they prepared was completing picture. This activity is about completing the picture which explains a word. People who were in the most front seat had to cover their eyes and they had to guess the word based on the picture. Before I started this activity i thought it would be easy and boring. But reality was utterly different from my expectation. As soon as i saw a word in the screen i had to draw picture which can explain the word in limited time. If it wasn’t team game i could have been easier because i could draw the picture which can explain the word by myself. Since we had different image of the words in our minds, the picture got different as the picture was passed to the other team members. Moreover, because of the time limit, atmosphere of the class got tense.
At the beginning of the activity thanks to words which were sort of straightforward, it was easy to draw the foundation. But as the activity proceeded with, words got abstract and they were hard to materialize. Thanks to the teamwork of our team, there was no problem for us to do this activity. But there were some teams which they weren’t satisfied with their arrangement of the seats. After some time, we had a chance to rearrange the seats. My team was content with the arrangement , we decided not to change the seats. But there were some teams who altered their arrangement of the seat. I thought there would be no big difference even if they changed the seats. But the teams which changed their arrangement their seat showed better teamwork and were able to guess the correct answer. After we finish this activity we could trust our team members more and got to know their ways of thinking and got more intimate than we started the activity. Through this activity, I could know that we can even communicate with team members by playing game.
Two lessons from the activity
Through this activity I could learn two things. To begin with, i could realize that we think differently even if we see the same words. So when we have a conversation with others, we assume that the other people are in the same page. But during the activity i could know each team drew the picture differently, which meant that we processed the words we saw in different ways. If we apply this to our daily life, this different ways of thinking cause barriers of communication. Since we are inclined to be sure that the other people think same thing as us, we doesn’t care about others’ opinions. Not to have roadblock of the communication, we shouldn’t judge people or make an assumption based on our thoughts
Secondly , I could learn the importance of distribution. In the past, many companies were managed by few intelligent and competent workers. But in these days, owing to the fourth industrial revolution, it became essential to distribute task. According to the book “ wealth of nations’ of Adam smith, the distribution of work is a key to increase produce of manufacture. In this book, by making an example of trade of pin maker, the distribution could increase the produce of pin drastically.
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ROBERT BOLTON, PH.D. PEOPLE SKILLS
ADAM SMITH , WEALTH OF NATIONS
http://www.iwithjesus.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7192 <2018/10/10>
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