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Posted on April 1, 2006 by Deon Melchior | Posted under News and Society
Sample Brain Enhancement Induction Program for New Employees
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Collaborative skills A typical collaborative skills workshop begins and ends with a celebration of diversity. For an icebreaker, which also serves as a brain enhancement activity, the instructor and participants might choose to fill out forms that give points for gender, job title and professional experience. The points will be important when the new employees form teams based on the highest team score possible; this can only be accumulated through diversity. For example, if team members have seven different job titles, they could get seven points. If four out of five are human resources and the other is a personal assistant, they get only two points because they get one for each job title. The scoring will force teams to look for members who are diverse so they can get the highest score. This forces people outside comfort zones, if everyone is from the same area they might cling to each other for support but their scores will suffer. They will get only one point for their company designation. The brain enhancement exercise encourages everyone to join different teams. Months later, ideally some relationships formed during orientation are still evident. After the introductory exercise, activities might focus on how to start teams. New teams learn how to conduct their information-sharing meeting. In this exercise, participants can practice team orientation and conduct information sharing. Perhaps the morning might end with brainstorming or mind mapping to soothing music. Participants also learn and practice how to generate ideas and creativity, develop trust among team members, and manage change. The strength of diversity By promoting diversity, corporate cultures contribute to creativity of the research and development long after new employees have learned the new ways of doing things. Emphasis on a requirement for mutual adaptation should be communicated clearly during orientation. A workshop is a great way for corporations to provide tools that will better assist employees to adjust to work groups. Ending with a bang A great final activity is to have participants form teams and practice orienting this new team. They can increase each other's awareness of collaboration, thereby relying on the principle that the best way to teach somebody is to get them to teach someone else. Team members might choose to select an aspect of collaboration that is important to them and design a skit or exercise to teach others. An especially valuable addition would be to have a company executive join each group to gain new insight on collaboration. This is also a great time for the company to welcome these new team members. Then after such a get-up-and-go mentality as is present in the presentations, teams should learn the importance of closure. They should be given a chance to conclude the class by sharing at least one new idea that everyone can benefit from. There are many companies that provide classes in workshop components, and their employees frequently report that the active participation of new trainees helps them better adapt to and understand the new company. The valuable combination of both “green" and experienced employees studying skills together has created benefits for both sides. The enthusiasm of new employees stimulates the more experienced co-workers, and the experienced workers are valuable mentors for the newcomers. This implementation of brain enhancement allows companies to make boring orientation sessions become shiny beginnings for valuable new employees. About The Author: Deon Melchior is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites visit - www.articleclick.com |
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