Roles we play

10-15 ''
6-12
Warming up
Forming

Goal:

• To discover the hobbies, activities and preferences of team members.

• To strengthen and improve the relationship between colleagues with creation of new relations and connections among them.

How to play:

  • 1- Encourage participants to think about those hobbies, activities, likes (or similar) that they often carry out on both working and non-working days or holidays.

  • 2- Draw a 2x3 table where

    • • the columns represent the working and the non-working days or holidays and

    • • the rows represent the time slots of the day: before starting to work, during working hours and after work.

  • Use the signs with the names of the time slots.

  • 3- Ask the participants to write on sticky notes their hobbies and stick them on each time slot.

  • 4- Group the notes by affinity: “those who walk the dog before work”, “those who go to the gym after the work”, etc.

  • 5- Start a conversation among participants with similar hobbies, encouraging participants to do these common activities together.

Material:

1. Marker or sticky tape to draw the table on the board.

2. Signs with the names of the time slots.

3. Minimum of 6 sticky notes (any colour) per participant.

4. 1 pen per participant.