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Interpersonal Skills Frame Game

Instructional Objective This frame game reinforces key concepts taught in many professional development courses that address interpersonal skills. The game helps to increase learning transfer by asking students to describe and apply strategies in five areas: 1) developing and maintaining trust, 2) increasing communication skills, 3) expressing feelings verbally, 4) listening and responding in a helpful manner, 5) and resolving interpersonal conflict. Upon completing the game, learners will better understand the value of having these interpersonal skills; what happens when effective interpersonal skills are used compared to what happens when poor skills are used; the root cause …show more content…

o Act It Challenge: This challenge requires learners to act out the “good practice” in the given interpersonal skills for handling the situation read aloud by the instructor. 

The timer is turned on and each team is given 10 minutes to prepare responses to their individual challenges using the provided worksheets.




Each team takes turns to present their responses in two minutes or less.
As each team presents, the instructor silently ranks the individual responses on a score of 1 to 5.



After each round, teams rotate the challenge they are to work on. For example: o Round 1 Game Play: Developing and Maintaining Trust
 Team 1 works on the “value” challenge.
 Team 2 works on the “bad practices” challenge
 Team 3 works on the “root causes” challenge
 Team 4 works on the “good practices” challenge
 Team 5 works on the “act it” challenge o Round 2 Game Play: Increasing Communication Skills
 Team 1 works on the “act it” challenge.
 Team 2 works on the “value” challenge
 Team 3 works on the “bad practice” challenge
 Team 4 works on the “root cause” challenge
 Team 5 works on the “good practice” challenge o Round 3 Game Play: Self‐disclosing appropriately
 Team 1 works on the “good practice” challenge.
 Team 2 works on the “act it” challenge
 Team 3 works on the “value” challenge
 Team 4 works on the “bad practice” challenge
 Team 5 works on the “root cause” challenge o Round 4 Game

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