expresspack

• Team Development
• Communicate effectively to ensure collective understanding & clarity
• Management & Workplace Communications
• Personal Development Coaching
• 'Safely' discussing sensitive / difficult topics through metaphors
• Initiating discussions and debates
• Promoting expression of thoughts and feelings
• Reviewing & providing feedback
• Cultural & diversity awareness
• Introductory activity & icebreaker activities
• Personal or organisational reflection / future planning

• What is this pack and what is it for?
  A combination of images, photos, and symbols, carefully picked to be used as visual metaphors for personal development coaching or team development scenarios, allowing individuals to express their opinions & views more openly, and communicate effectively.
  Using visual metaphors as a starting point for discussion and debate allows for sensitive topics to be addressed and discussed appropriately and effectively.
  
• Do you have any suggesitons on how to use this pack?
  Of course, here are some suggested uses for expresspack:
  Personal Development / Coaching
  You may be using this pack of cards as a personal development or coaching tool in a generic sense to assist individuals. This may be in a mentoring role, as a manager in business, as a Youth or Community Worker or simply with someone you would like to help. A sample question might be: 'Identify one card which represents where you are now, and one where you would like to be in the future.' Once they have chosen their cards ask them to express their thoughts and feelings about the cards. Once this has been done you could ask the individual to identify a card which represents the first step on this journey.
  
  Introductions / Getting groups started
  If you are a facilitator / trainer and are similar to ourselves, just occasionally you will have been in a room with a group and
  conversations are not flowing! Often this happens at the start of a day, when the individuals are just sussing out the group and how they will contribute. We have found expresspack a great way of initiating conversations and discussions to help a natural flow into other ideas you may want to introduce. For example avoid creeping death introductions and layout a pack of cards and get individuals to pick a card which they think relates to them in some way and use it to introduce themselves.
  
  Change
  Change is happening all the time, individuals are developing,
  organisations are changing, and global issues are affecting us all.
  Change management therefore is part of life and a subject which can be explored using expresspack. It is also worth considering whilst there is a lot of change often a lot of things may stay the same. One idea might be to ask individuals / team / department prior to a change initiative to identify a card which represents the state of the organisation now and another to show how they would like it to be in the future. This allows individuals to communicate effectively and safely how they feel about the change, which they might have avoided previously.
  
  Leadership & Management Development
  This is an important area of our work. Leaders and Managers need to help bring clarity to situations. Often they are not doing this, so some useful starting questions with which to use expresspack in this area might include: 'Pick 5 cards which represent your vision / what is important to you in your role?'
  
  Team Development
  In a similar way to our Leadership Development work any work with teams usually needs to focus initially on a clarity of joint understanding. A useful question dependent upon the stage of team development might be: 'Pick a number of cards which illustrate your expectations of this team'. Expresspack has varying team development images which have a variety of different representations.
  
  Reviewing & Giving Feedback
  Individuals or teams may be reluctant to provide feedback or review an event / session truthfully, and Expresspack acts as a safe review activity. You may ask individuals to pick one image which represents how they felt before the session, and one representing how they felt after the session.

Activity Contents: 53x playing card-sized images (88mm x 63mm)

Package Weight: 0.1kg