Fall, Fail, Fire…

Role play activity- Customer at a Bank

This Sunday, five of us- Rahul, Dnyanesh, Sankalp, Rajan
and I met looking forward to yet another fun-filled SHG meeting. Today, the
meeting was also attended by Mr. Rajesh Kenkre. Rajesh Kenkre is a renowned
architect and an interior designer with his own enterprise in the capital city
Panaji. A PWS himself, Rajesh was keen in attending the meeting to share his
experiences, his fears and apprehensions and how he tackles the same.

Rajesh shared his story and how he considers stammering
as not a problem, but as a gift. He spoke of acceptance and then briefly about
his journey from being scared of speaking to heading the local chapter of a
networking group of entrepreneurs called BNI, to being the president of
Toastmasters Club!
The three important nuggets of wisdom which Rajesh shared
with us were-
1.     
Fall into it.
2.     
Fail again and again.
3.     
Have the fire of passion burning within you.
We all were inspired and thanked Mr. Rajesh for coming
and invited him again to our meetings.
We then had two group activities-
1.     
Group Discussion.
·        
A topic was selected (Corruption in India)
·        
Every member states the problem and their opinion
·        
Every member gives one or more solution
·        
Others comment and group discussion starts
·        
Group should derive a conclusion
·        
One member volunteer to give a presentation of
what was discussed
Sankalp and Rahul volunteered and presented a report on
what was discussed as the part of this activity.
2.     
On-the-spot situation
·        
A situation given to all the participants. (A
Customer’s Loan rejected by Bank)
·        
One person plays the customer.
·        
All participants create their own conversations,
characters etc on the spot for the situation.
·        
No preparation
Dnyanesh played the customer who’s loan application was
rejected, and we all played the Bank Staff. (Thanks to Rajesh for his online
SHG ideas, from which we got this activity)

In the end, we had a casual discussion, watched some
videos, shared some a few PDFs and resources, and amidst the heavy rains,
parted off with smiles.  

Post Author: Harish Usgaonker

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