Team Roles : A Game To Experience The Roles That People Play

Preparation: Make paper hats of different colours. There should be as many hats as there are roles. On each hat the name of the role is written. Some roles people play are: initiator, summarizer, etc.

Get a list of all the roles and their explanations from Roles In Groups

Ask for as many volunteers as the number of roles that you are exploring. Participants pick up a role of their choice and stand in a circle. They are expected to read their role descriptions and understand their roles.

After about five minutes, they are given a controversial topic. They have to discuss this topic in their roles. They have ten minutes to explore their roles while discussing the topic.

In the mean time the rest of the group is sitting around the small group that is discussing the controversial topic - observing the people playing the different roles. At the end of the ten minutes, when the discussion has stopped, the volunteer group will take feedback from the rest of the group on the accuracy of role representation.

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