Advanced verbal communication, problem solving, leadership, change management, cultural intergration
Overview of ColourBlind II
This advanced version of ColourBlind provides a greater level of challenge requiring more detailed descriptions, more accurate discrimination between shapes and a greater capacity to hold and retrieve information. ColourBlind II is a problem-solving exercise designed to illustrate how individuals make sense of situations by drawing on their previous experience and knowledge from the original ColourBlind, and how they attempt to convey to others their understanding of these situations and the importance of establishing common meaning and understanding.
Learning Outcomes of ColourBlind II
Colourblind II offers an opportunity to apply and develop the skills learned during the basic exercise in a very challenging context. This is a versatile team development exercise and there are a wide range of areas which can be covered depending on your learning objectives, including;
- Those covered in the original ColourBlind
- As an introduction to a culture change programme
- In identifying language difficulties - use it with a multi-lingual team!
- In understanding the responsibilities of 'transmitter' and 'receiver' in communication
- In exploring the process of applying learning from one experience to another
The facilitators guide within this exercise pack gives a detailed debrief guide for four main areas of communication;
1. Managing information; establishing and retaining the information we need
2. Group Communication; Charing Skills
3. Speaking the same language; establishing a common meaning
4. Valuing Diversity; recognising and working with different individual communication strategies
How ColourBlind II Works
The objective of the exercise is for the group to establish the shape, colour and number of missing ColourBlind items. Group members are blindfolded and then issued with the ColourBlind items of which a number have been removed from the full set.
ColourBlind is a practical exercise in verbal communication, which demonstrates effectively the enormous and fascinating variety of strategies which individuals use to make sense of their worlds. It explores how perceptions are presented, how meaning comes to be shared between individuals and groups and how organisational strategies are developed to account for the wide range of individual thinking and learning styles.
Individuals are then faced with the issues of:
- concentrating, listening, understanding and remembering
- communicating so that everyone understands them
- establishing workable control and checking procedures
- challenging and clarifying misunderstandings
- taking responsibility for progress
- helping and enabling colleagues
The exercise itself is simple: pool knowledge to identify the coloured shapes that are missing from a complete set. The communication processes involved are much more complex and take participants through increasingly sophisticated patterns of communication until the task is achieved
Contents of ColourBlind II
Four sheets of high quality, coloured plastic shapes. Extensive facilitators guide with a range of debrief ideas.
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Who is it for: All levels of staff
Duration: 1 hour
Number of Participants: 6 - 17
