VARIATIONS
Form small groups of 5 to 7 people each. Give each group a different case study that
exemplifies various reasons to hold a celebration. Examples include:
The organization has recently clarified its vision and mission.
The company met the challenge of reversing 9/11’s impact on sales.
The project team has reached the midpoint for completion of its year-long
research effort.
Provide props, products, CDs, and art materials for the groups to use. Each group must
make a large poster-size invitation to their celebration, and should select one piece of
appropriate music to the season for the celebration.
Give the groups 20 minutes to plan.
Each group should describe its plan. Ask all the groups (after all have presented) to
talk about the best thing each group did in their plan. Then everyone can vote on
which group best represented the “HEART” formula. The prize is a large heart—per-
haps a heart box of chocolates to share.
Trainer’s Notes for Activity 50
STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE
Step 1: Outside the training room (which has been decorated), ask each person
to fill out a card telling about a celebration they attended at work that
was meaningful to them. Instruct them to drop their cards into a large
basket at the door. They should then select a hat to wear.
Open the door with great fanfare (tooting a horn, for example). They
will be entering a decorated room filled with the music of celebration.Step 2: After participants settle in and are enjoying the treats you have provided,
bring the basket with their cards to the front of the room. Pull out the
examples, one at a time, and ask each contributor to talk about the
celebration they referred to on their card. Take notes on the flipchart of
the elements found in these celebrations.
Step 3: Then ask, “What are the ingredients of a wonderful Celebration?”
Present the HEART formula. (Distribute Handout 50.1, The HEART
Formula.)
Ask them who plans the celebration. “It starts with you,the leader.”BRING OUT THEIR BEST!^307