The Phone Is Your Friend
Purpose: Demonstrate that speaking (picking up the phone) is often faster and more effective than typing (emails).
Activity
Communication Challenge (charades-style)
Setup
- Two teams
How It Works
- Each team gets a stack of cards with a target word and words to avoid on one side.
- Each round, one player from each team will take turns trying to get their teammates to say the target word without saying the words to avoid
- Every round, teams will alternate between communication styles: Talking and Slack Group Message
- Players must ONLY communicate with the assigned communication method each round
- Each successful guess of the target word earns a point
- The team with the most points wins.
Debrief
- How can we apply this to our day to day?
- What are some instances where we should consider calling our clients?
- How do you think speaking would have changed the outcome of our PM game?