[teampractices] Looking for a group activity for written communication

Thu May 10 23:51:17 UTC 2018

Thanks, both!

And I've got my bomb ready and my bomb manual already printed, Joel, for a
different exercise. ;)

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:07 PM Joel Aufrecht <jaufrecht at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/
>
> This might be relevant/useful:
>
>> In Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, one player is trapped in a room with
>> a ticking time bomb they must defuse. The other players are the "Experts"
>> who must give the instructions to defuse the bomb by deciphering the
>> information found in the Bomb Defusal Manual. But there's a catch: the
>> Experts can't see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out - fast!
>>
>
>
> *-- Joel Aufrecht *(they/them)
> Program Manager (Technology)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to help a team gain awareness around the importance of written
>> communication, and some of the pitfalls one might encounter vs oral or
>> face-to-face communication. I can imagine this as a presentation of useful
>> approaches (plus a lifetime of practice), but I was wondering if anyone
>> knew of an activity that a small group of people could do (role-play,
>> worksheets, Madlibz, etc). Something that doesn't involve me droning on,
>> and gives participants a chance to engage with one another? :)
>>
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