Socialization
Concrete activities
Get personal
What?
An activity where members of groups exchange jobs / roles / tasks. The activity makes it almost inevitable to learn something new, and it will open up new learning and perspectives.
Why?
When there is a need to experience what the others experience.
How?
Agree with members from another group to swap jobs/roles/tasks for a day. Align with each other what you would like to learn from the experience. Agree on who will trade with whom and for how long. Evaluate the learning across the groups.
Who?
The activity can be carried out by anyone in a group (at all organizational levels) but requires the approval and support of local leaders.
Together socially
What?
A set of activities to create awareness of the differences between one's own and others' perspectives. An activity that is about changing perspectives and asking new questions about your own ingrained habits.
Why?
In LB insurance, we could use the activity to create an understanding of the work of others, and feel what it is like to be the others.
How?
We initiate a discussion and learning process internally in our own groups: How do others view our group and the way we collaborate? Would other groups see certain problems differently than we do? How would we argue ourselves from a different perspective?
We can use the activity to open our dialogues at e.g. team meetings.
Who?
The activity can be performed by everyone in a group (at all organizational levels).
For a start, the activity will be good in terms of setting up team meetings and the like.