Effective Openers: Dear John
At the beginning of the session, distribute copies of Dear John letter #1 to all participants and ask them to please provide the correct punctuation so that the letter is understandable.
After giving people about 4 minutes to do the exercise, show Dear John letter #2 on a transparency and read it aloud. Next, show transparency #3 and read it out loud.
| Remember the difference between an effective opener and a traditional icebreaker is this: you must make a training point after the exercise. The session for which I used this exercise was for a workshop on how to organize data in a meaningful way. The training point I made after completing this exercise was: "Adding punctuation is like organizing data. Until you decide how to organize it, it is often confusing and means nothing." |
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