Does role play enhance your workplace culture or help your training efforts?

Luke Draeger (Seattle, WA) and Lisa Lavender (Reading, PA) are co-authors of Be Intentional: Culture - how the small things enhance or undermine your culture. In this clip from our "meet the authors" event, Luke and Lisa discuss their thoughts on whether role playing is an effective training tool in the workplace.

Is role playing effective for training in the workplace?

The typical training session at work is a mix of too boring to be engaging and/or too dissonant with the real world to be applicable. Intentional people in a position of leadership work to make their training time effective, engaging, and executable. Luke shares a story of how role playing was not an accurate gauge of whether someone was a good sales person. Role playing is awkward, but that does not mean that it isn't effective. Those owners and managers who set aside time for training and implement tools such as role playing, must work to ensure that these items meet the vision and objectives for the meetings. 

What are your thoughts about role playing at work? 

Role play at work is:

1. Awkward but overall productive
2. Awkward and should be banned
3. Other

Be Intentional: Culture (2021) How the Small Things Enhance or Undermine Your Culture

Intro by: Michelle Blevins

Authors: Lisa Lavender Andrew McCabe Jeremy Watkin Dr. Leroy Nunery David Princeton Luke Draeger Jon Isaacson Christopher Stanley Elan Pasmanick

Editors: Jon Isaacson and Tiffany Acuff

Publisher: The DYOJO

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