POSITIVE FEEDBACK

OBJECTIVE
To encourage people to verbalize positive feelings toward others.

PROCEDURE
Divide the group into dyads. Each person is asked to write 4-5 things they have noticed in their partner. The items must all be positives ones. After a few minutes of writing, the trainer will open for discussion (each group of two), whereby the observer states he/she wrote about the other.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
a) Were you comfortable with this exercise? If not, why?
b) What would make it easier for us to give positive feedback to others?
c) What would make it easier for us to receive positive feedback from others

MATERIAL REQUIRED
None

APPROXIMATE TIME REQUIRED
15 minutes

SOURCE:
Games Trainers Play, John W. Newstrom & Edward E.Scannell, McGraw-Hill.