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"JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE"
by Bobbe White
Creative Training Techniques, January, 2001
Volume 14 - Number I
Remember "Survivor," the TV series about volunteer castaways?
Bobbe White designed a review technique she calls, "The Secret to
Survival," a take-off on the show complete with coconut candleholders,
fishnets and immunity necklaces.
White selects eight main learning points in advance, and prints them on separate adhesive mailing labels. She then buys bunches of eight bananas, (a bunch for each office) and applies a sticker to each banana. She wraps a "leaf" around the bunch. The leaf reads: Review the Secrets of Survival. The bananas anchor your review process. Here are a few possibilities:
- Divide participants into eight groups of roughly equal numbers. Pass
the bunch of bananas around and ask each group to take one banana. Each
group discusses the learning point it finds stuck to its banana and
then exchanges bananas with another team. Repeat.
- Ask each group to focus on the learning point its banana bears, and
then to present a two-minute review of that point for other participants.
- Conduct the last exercise, with only one person reporting to the entire class-who then learns he has "immunity" from the next round of presentations.
