Look under your thumb and share!
Share your reaction to whatever prompt lies under your thumb. Thumball™ is a soft 6" stuffed ball pre-printed with 32 questions or prompts and LOADS of interesting applications for meetings, training, and employee relations.
The Leadership Thumball was designed to help facilitators ask participants thoughtful questions about Leadership. The questions can be answered in a group setting or used with individuals on a specific leadership path. Feel free at any time to reword or alter the question provided. Each question is simply a starting point; take it in any direction you desire.
The Debriefing Thumball helps facilitators ask debriefing questions in a proper sequence that makes sense to participants. It can also shift some of the responsibility for successful processing from the facilitator to the participants. The sequence of 1. What happened, 2. Why is this important, and 3. How can I use this information, not only takes participants through a progression for processing a specific event, but also presents an overall lesson on proper processing.
The Conflict Resolution Thumball has 32 different conflict resolution or peer mediation questions pre-printed on the panels of the ball. Invite your group to sit or stand in a circle. Read the group a conflict scenario and then ask them to toss the ball around and respond to the questions based on how they would try and resolve the conflict.
These unique Thumballs have been designed for training purposes by Training Wheels, Inc.
Here are a few examples of questions for each Thumball:
Leadership Thumball
- Is your ability to lead getting easier or more difficult as you evolve as a leader? Why?
- What are you doing to remain accountable to others as a leader?
- What do you have in common with the leader(s) you most admire?
- As a leader, how do you maintain, or try to maintain, a healthy balance in your life?
- How are you a better leader today than you were a year ago?
- How has being a leader made you a better person?
- Who has been your biggest fan as you evolved into leadership? Please explain.
- What book or books have influenced your leadership abilities/philosophy and in what way?
Conflict Resolution Thumball
- What is one thing you could have done differently?
- How would you like to see the conflict resolved?
- How did you approach the other party?
- Describe your initial reaction to the conflict.
- Is there old stuff you are using to fuel this fire?
- In the grand scheme of things, how important is this conflict?
- Are you trying to cast blame?
- What are you doing that is blocking the resolution of this problem?
Debriefing Thumball
- Orange Fact-Finding Questions: These questions will ask general questions about what happened in the group. It asks factual questions or questions that simply summarize the events of the experience. The questions are intentionally easy to answer as they set the stage for the other two colors of questions.
- Green 'Why-Is-This-Important?' Questions: The green questions ask Why questions and elicit feelings from the participants. They also help participants analyze the significance of the experience.
- Blue Transference Questions: The blue colored questions tie the specific experience to future experiences and to everyday life--after learning from an experience, how can participants apply this knowledge?
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