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The Rope Course At The Ropes Course

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When starting the ropes course I think we were all a little nervous, not just about heights or different challenges, but figuring each other out. People walk around on nails for a while till they feel they know someone good enough to open up, this activity sped that process up a quite a bit. Different people take on different roles and I think this made some stand up to show their leadership and others show how they follow. This is a good way to sum up how people will act in working groups as well and gave us a further understanding of what we should expect from our teams. The ropes course was a good exercise to have fun and open up to each other. I know that I am usually quiet at first but if I am given a hands on activity I feel I can be more of myself and interact at a greater level. One of the first concepts I wanted to talk about was ‘how to communicate effectively at work’. When reading this we learned that you needed to get to the point and say your central idea, just get it out there and see what people think, it may be good or bad but you won’t know till you speak up. When working on the low coarse tight wire we were able to finally group up and say what worked and what didn’t. It was difficult when you wanted to just try it on your own, but had the rule of three point contact. So instead of trying to figure it out alone, we eventually decided to give everyone a voice and weigh our options about what to do next. I think once we got everyone on the same page we were

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