Communication Worksheet From the moment a child is born they start to communicate with those around them. One important thing in understanding your child is learning how they communicate what they need and how they feel. Listening is the key to communication with your child.
Listening means giving your full attention to what your child has to say. Ask par-ticipants to think about how much communica Good communication skills, both verbal and written, are important to have on the job. This lesson will give students a chance evaluate effective communication and how they can improve their own communication skills.
Materials: White board and marker Facilitation Steps: 1. Once complete, the other partner will have their turn. This exercise gives couples the opportunity to truly be heard on important issues rather than dissolving into arguments. This exercise can be done as a planned game or can be incorporated into heated conversations. Misinterpreting emotions can be a dangerous mistake in an intimate relationship.
Practice by having one partner act out an emotion on a piece of paper and having the other partner guess what they are feeling. Good communication in a relationship with other adults can make life much simpler and more pleasant. While the best way to teach children appropriate communication is to model it yourself, there are a variety of games that you can use with your own children or if you work with kids as a teacher, counselor, etc.
Possibly one of your favorite activities as a child! Ask children to bring a beloved item into the classroom or to the dinner table and describe what it is and why they love it.
This activity gives children an opportunity to speak about something they care for. Their audience has the opportunity to practice listening and asking pertinent questions, and the speaker gets to work on fielding those questions. Learning to give other people the opportunity to speak is essential to good communication skills. In this exercise, children sit in a circle with one child in the center. They will have 15 seconds to talk about a subject of their liking animals, for example.
When their time is up, they can choose the next animal and pick another child to take their turn. This game helps kids understand the importance of speaking and then turning the floor over to someone else. Audience members get to practice listening as it will be important for them to know what the next topic is. Not only will students learn communication skills during this relationship, but they will also practice and develop their leadership abilities.
If you work with students, assign them a team project that will be presented to the class. Students work together to complete the project and then present their findings to the other teams. This allows them to practice communication skills, teamwork, and public speaking which is challenging for many. Practicing body language or nonverbal communication can help you ensure that your visual cues match your verbal cues. These exercises can help:. Create groups of people and give them a list of nonverbal behaviors for someone to act out.
Then, have the rest of the group give their interpretations of these behaviors. These can include:. Divide people into groups of two and have one person act out emotions with no words. Have the other person guess what they are feeling. Once they have completed a few rounds, have the pair switch. This will make it easier for people to read facial expressions.
Assign one person as the leader and have them lead the other people through multiple exercises, dance moves, etc. Repeat this until everyone has had the opportunity to lead. Ask every person on your team to select an animal silently and then instruct them to line up in size order of their animal. They may not speak, only acting out the animal they are portraying. Learning better communication skills can be fun with the right activities and the right attitude.
No matter which activities you use, improving your communication will pay dividends in your professional and personal relationships for years to come. The Guessing Game This simple activity is a fun way to introduce and show the difference between closed and open questions. Read more about the guessing game activity. Participants are split into teams and act out an emotion, such as disgust, affection, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, anger, determination..
Read more about guess the emotion activity. Power of Body Language Body language speaks louder than any words you can ever utter. This is a great quick and fun activity that shows how powerful the effect of body language is in communicating with others. Read more about this training activity. Follow all instructions activity This is a quick fun activity with a little trick to see how many of the participants will actively listen and follow the one single instruction you will give them "Read all instructions first" and how many will rush and start doing each instruction one by one.
Effective feedback skill practice exercise An overview of effective and ineffective feedback and a good activity for practicing giving effective feedback. The Name game Instruct each participant to think of a famous person and write it secretly on a post it note. Attach the post it to the head of their partner. A fun exercise that shows the importance of asking the right type of questions. Square Talk This is a challenging activity where participants are all blindfolded and receive instructions from the trainer that should be strictly followed, the exercise enables participants to recognise the importance of communicating effectively, and understand the important aspects of communication.
Room The purpose of this exercise is to practice your influential and persuasive skills in a competitive fun debate focusing on communication skills like choosing positive language, being passionate and enthusiastic about one's case, showing 'benefits' to others Back to back communication A classic communication skills activity that highlights the importance of asking questions for effective communication.
Paper shapes A simple activity you can easily incorporate in any communication skills training intervention to show the importance of two way communication. Memory Test This can be a great activity for presentation skills or train the trainer classes. Tell participants that you will read them a list of words to test their memory. Participants will need to listen carefully and cannot write any of the words you will say down. Did you know that we just added a FREE review game to each of our full course training packages?
The game is all done in Power Point and comes packed with questions and answers around your training package so you can easily review the content of the training, enhance retention and ensure your training participants are engaged till the very end.
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