Positivity – Constructive interaction, optimism and cameraderie

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Exercise: Ability Spotting

Purpose

Increase the team member’s knowledge about each other’s strength and needs in order to strengthen their teamwork and make better use of each other’s resources and contribution.

Ability spotting is a way of giving feed back that evolves both the competences and the quality of constructive interaction and optimism. It also has a great impact on camaraderie.

Introduction

– Story telling: Every team member tells a story about a situation or an incident where they were completely in their element and felt engaged and fulfilled. Each person uses 5 minutes to tell his or her story.
– Interviewing: After the story the teller is being briefly interviewed either by another team member or the facilitator.
– Noting: During the story and the interview all the listeners note the strengths and resources the story and the interview reveals about the teller. Each strength notes down on a post-it note.
– Feedback: After each story the listeners gives feedback by placing the post-it notes on the tellers breast while they say it out loud to the teller.
– Further use: The teller stores the post-it notes they got and use them in the following teamwork.

Questions to the teller during the story telling done by an interviewer (examples)

• What went great in the situation you tell about?
• What did you do or say that had a positive impact?
• How did people around you react?
• What ability did you use?
• What mindset or behaviour is important to hold on to?
• What do you want to do more of?
• How will that influence your work?
• What will it mean to your relations?
• What will it mean to you?

Time frame: App. 25 minutes for each story telling including interview and feed back.

Source: The exercise is created by systemic supervisor and consultant Peter Lang and figures in the book “Anerkendende procesøvelser” written by Pia Halkier, Annika Lindén og Attractor in 2008. Dansk Psykologisk Forlag.

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