PROFESSIONAL AND COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS - Workplace
Reality Theatre - Leadership training by iHR Australia
Acting in a “Workplace
Reality Theatre” in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok brought a lot of great moments. It is a unique methodology used for the corporate trainings,
where with another actor we had to re-enact real workplace situations. Later the acted
scenes were used as the basis for the participants' discussions.
In different scenes during the training day
I played all eight female characters: secretary Jackie (smart, but lazy); CEO
Jane (autocratic and indefinite); subordinate Wiki (2 scripts: submissive and
assertive behaviors), manager Cathy (avoiding and assertive behaviors), parking
security Hanya (aggressive and assertive behaviors).
Scripts, body language, gestures and tone of
voice demonstrated desired behavior in comparison to examples of poor
behavior. At the end of the training participants had to practice communication
skills interacting with me (i.e. with Jackie, Jane etc...).
