At work we have to undertake regular paediatric life support training, or if you're really unfortunate the advanced PLS course. Both of these include some scenario/role play sessions, TBH it is a laugh more than anything else but when I did PLS back in March the final assessment was a pass/fail, being assessed by an A&E consultant & senior nurse. Good training day really.
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Role play at work - cringing content
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I will, a relic of the cold war, their job is to create fear in politics and the general public in order to expand their own empire, largely staffed by over educated idiots.
Idiot
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I had to do a 'middle management' course once and part of it was run by Lawrence Olivier's son
Well that's three of us on this thread who have been to one of his training gigs
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Idiot
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I once found myself on the other side of the fence. We were interviewing for a customer liaison specialist (customer service in other words) and I at the allotted time had to phone the interview room and pretend to be an irate customer wondering where my shipment was. The interviewee had been given a sheet previously with the scenario on it and was discussing the potential solutions with the interviewer, but wasn't expecting the call so it was a good assessment of how well they could dela with the out of the blue scenario.
But the best bit for me was that halfway through the call the heavens opened outside and shoddy building that i work in, pretty quickly there was a huge wet patch forming on the suspended ceiling. So i said I was going to have to go to get a bucket to catch the drips, and rang off. A few minutes later the interviewer rang back and asked me what i thought etc. and then complimented me on throwing in a curve ball scenario to see how they'd react. **** wasn't capable of looking out of his window to see the biblical flood developing and thought I'd made it up.
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Well that's three of us on this thread who have been to one of his training gigs
Sounds like he's probably doing ok for himself then.
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Or they all work together and his gigs are so successful that they still don't realise they spend all day talking to each other online?
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For some reason our 'training dept' seem to think role play should be part of every train session we do!!!
Plus 'ice breaker' games
Last training I attended, included 10 others in same position as myself.
All worked together for 20+ years.
Told trainer to 'shove it' in a very good, united way and cut 3 hours from the training day............... Which was nice
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Have done role playing both with members of the seminar playing the role and professional simulators.
Used as a way of illustrating scenarios and how to deal with them the difference was huge. The professional simulators were fantastic, able to rewind into the scenario, change how they reacted etc.
I found the professional ran one very useful and can think of several bits of advice I took from it which I use regularly.
Done well they can be good but done badly the only team building is in the pub after as everyone curse about how bad and how much of a waste if time it was.
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A subject dear to my heart. After too many years of appalling corporate b0-lax I organised a mini adventure race for my lot, some decent brain teasers, teamwork type stuff and a couple of more out there bits. Feedback was that this was the first thing they had done which was of any use. The aftermatch in the pub was good as well. Before that we were forced to do all the usual w@nk and quite frankly all it does is waste time and money. After it the level of co-operation and communication was measurably better. Quite frankly the paradigm was shifted. Sorry, couldn;t help myself.
Been through the process have we?
Might have. Can't tell you though can I ?Posted 1 year ago # -
Might have. Can't tell you though can I ?
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Might have. Can't tell you though can I ?
Surely we don't allow New Zealanders into our secret services.
Unless..... maybe he's not really a New Zealander.
Ahh......... clever!
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Surely we don't allow New Zealanders into our secret services.
Unless..... maybe he's not really a New Zealander.
Ahh......... clever!
You should take the test, you might be onto something there
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Had a conference that the entire department went to, a few hundred of us.
Anyway, in past years we'd had some excellent speakers, but this time we had some actors who were utter rubbish.
We're an IT department, so really not an exciting bunch on the whole. So being told to 'Go to your happy place before you do the performance of your meeting' was totally inappropriate.
Well, I did go to my happy place, I walked out and went home. Boss was understanding...Posted 1 year ago #
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