Assignment about Professional Workshop on Multidimensionality of Character

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP ON
MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF CHARACTER
Name of the Class (Course)
Professor
Name of University
City and State where university is located
Date
Designed by (Author)

Part 1: Workshop Schedule
• The professional workshop on week 11 topic,
Multidimensionality of Character, will be a two half-day
practical workshop. The objective of the workshop will be
to assist a group of twenty employees from different
departments in a clinical institution, to understand their
character strengths on the six core virtues, civic,
humanity, temperance, transcendence, cognitive and
emotional.

Part 1: Workshop Schedule
cont..
• The participators will be expected to attend to their
workplace duties for half a day before attending the
workshop in one of the boardrooms in the facility.
• The workshop will include several group activities. These
activities are meant to assist the employees, make a more
practical application on Multidimensionality of Character.

Part 1: Workshop Schedule
cont…
• The table below shows the workshop main activities and
timings. Day 1.
Activity Time
icebreaking 1330-1400 hrs.
Introduction 1400-1440 hrs.
Tea Break 1440-1500 hrs.
Team Activity: Letting go a Jelly beans 1500-1600 hrs.
Day 2.
Activity Time
Individual Activity: Measuring character strengths 1330-1400 hrs.
Role-playing and Simulation 1400-1440 hrs.
Tea Break 1440-1500 hrs.
Brainstorming 1500-1600 hrs.

Day 1 : Icebreaking
• Before the workshop starts, the participants and the
presenter will engage in an ice-breaker activity. The ice-
breaker will make the participants more comfortable with
each other. The presenter will start by introducing himself
or herself to the team. The introduction speech should
include, a bit of history on his experience in
Multidimensionality of Character. The participants will
then be asked to introduce themselves but in a different
way than that of the presenter.

Day 1 : Icebreaking
• All participators will stand in a circle. Each will begin by
giving their full names and three statements about their
life. Of the three statements, two have to be truthful while
one has to be a lie. Other participants will try and identify
which of the statements was manufactured. The activity
will assist relax the formal atmosphere and allow the
participants to fully participate in the workshop.

Day 1 : Introduction
• After the ice-breaking activity, the speaker will give an
introduction on the topic, character strengths and virtues.
The speaker will emphasise the needs of one to identify
and build on their character strength. The speaker will
facilitate the entire workshop with, handout notes and an
interactive PowerPoint presentation. To mark the
introduction climax, the participants will watch a
character-building YouTube video,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUOlLRbazA. The
video gives an introduction and general application of
character strength.

Day 1 : Tea Break
• During the tea break, the team members will be required
to further get to appreciate each other strengths. They are
to start a talk with another employee at the tea station,
who they have not had any interaction with in the past.
They have to engage in a conversation on any one of the
truths that the participant identified in the first ice-
breaker activity. Each partner has to try and identify the
character strength of the other person. This will further
warm up their interactions with each other and to other
activities in the course of the workshop.

Day 1 : Team Activity: Letting go
a Jelly beans
• The goal of this team activity is to help each participant identify and
appreciate their unique strengths. The team will be asked to separate into
four random groups of five members. Each participant will receive twenty-
four jelly beans of six different colours that include red, green, blue, pink,
yellow and black.
• Each jelly bean represents a different core virtue. The red Jelly bean
signifies emotional core virtue courage, green humanity, blue wisdom, pink
temperance, yellow transcendence and black justice. The reason why Jelly
beans are used in the activity is to elaborate that each individual has unique
character strengths to offer. Despite the size of jelly beans small, they have
incredible taste.

Day 1 : Team Activity: Letting go
a Jelly beans
• Members for each group will be asked to sit in a circle facing
each other. Then each will be allowed by other team members
to identify and illustrate their character strength in the six-
core character virtue, transcendence, temperance, justice,
courage and humanity. Each participant is to give true unique
experiences. When a member identifies a character strength
that surpass another participant strength in any of the six-
core character virtue, they have to let go of one of their jelly
bean that represents the core character virtue.

Day 1 : Team Activity:
Letting go a Jelly beans
After each member has shared on each of
character core virtue, the team has to
document how many jelly bean each has
for each core virtue and the member
which more jelly beans in any given core
virtue will be asked to report on the
strengths of other team members in the
area. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

Day 2 : Measuring character strengths
• Before the team can start on any activity, they will be
required to fill a questionnaire that seeks to measure their
character strengths.
• Below is the questionnaire that will be used for this
activity.
• A score of 24 is a perfect score which is not likely
especially because each person has different strengths.

Day 2 : Measuring character
strengths
Please rate each of the following character strength on a scale of five one being the least strength and
five the greatest strength. The rate should be about the four examples of virtues listed below each
strength.Core Character Strengths Rate
1. Justice
Fairness citizenship Leadership Teamwork
2. Humanity
Love Kindness social intelligence emotional intelligence
3. Temperance
Self-
Regulation
Mercy Humility Forgiveness
4. Transcendence
Hope Spirituality Appreciation faith
5. Courage
Zest Honesty Persistence Bravery
6. Cognitive
Curiosity Creativity Love for learning Open-mind

Day 2 : Role-playing and
Simulation
• The role-playing and simulation activity will allow the participants to
simulate human interaction on a common area of interaction like a
bus terminal concerning different character strengths. The
participation will be in a group of ten. In this case, it will be better for
the facilitator to encourage participation to pair up groups that were
created in day one because all participants could have gained a better
connection and understanding for each other.
• The simulation case will involve an arrogant base driver, a physically
challenged young man, and an old lady who accidentally drops 1000
dollars.

Day 2 : Role-playing and
Simulation cont…
• Each group is to creatively create a scenario and act. Through the simulation,
they are supposed to mimic different character strength. From the acting, a
team will try to show how different people based on their character strengths
react to a different situation. For instance, in the case of the old lady who
accidentally drops cash, an honest individual, will call out to the lady at once,
and let her know that she has dropped the cash.
• The honest act, also confirms that the person also has other interpersonal
strength of humanity like kindness, love and care. Through the simulation, the
team should be encouraged to create scenes that are interesting and educative
to all the other teams. The crews can also be motivated and encouraged to
create their unique character to make the situation more interesting.

Day 2 : Brainstorming
• After the role-playing and simulation activity, the participant will all be
involved in a brainstorming session. This session will be a reflection on
the role-playing activity. The participants will be asked to:
Identify major characters in the simulation
Establish or identify their civic, humanity, temperance, transcendence, cognitive
and emotional strength
Establish what areas they need to focus on to ensure that they have a fairly
strong and positive character
Ascertain how the characters could apply the character strengths identified in
other social interactions like school or workplace and family.

Day 2 : Brainstorming cont..
• The brainstorming session is meant to allow the
participants to make a practical application of different
character strengths learned. In the process of
understanding the strengths of different characters, they
can refer and gain a deeper understanding of how their
behaviour affects other people around them. The
discussion will also assist participants to try and
commence a positive character change.

Part 2: Expectation
• The objective of the workshop was to give employees from different
department including janitor, nurses, doctors, and other support staff, a
chance to reevaluate their character strengths and makes positive steps
towards positive change. The reason why the workshop targets the
medical environment is because it is one of the industries that deal with
individuals with different personalities. These patients require not only
physical treatment but also emotional care. Therefore, the workshop seeks
to educate the clinical practitioners, the impact their character strength
has on others around them. Moreover, having the participants interact in
the group allowed them to interact with people with different strength and
they get to understand how these strengths affect them.

Part 2: Expectation cont..
• The best way for the participants to understand the topic,
Multidimensionality of Character, was to have a more practical
interaction. Consequently, the workshop attempts to take the participants
through many activities that help them to measure, understand, and build
their character not only to have a positive impact on the people that they
interact with but also live a more fruitful and meaningful life. Some of the
situations that they face in their work environment might significantly
affect their behaviour. Nonetheless, by evaluating other people character
strengths, especially in other social circles as depicted from the
simulation group activities, their character strengths are also shaped.

Part 2: Expectation cont..
• Including interesting and interactive activities throughout
the workshop also played positively to the timing.
Workshop and training especially in a busy work
environment like medical can be challenging. Hence, most
workshop and training are organized either for the
afternoon session the workshop seeks to ensure that the
participants got an opportunity to learn and build their
character. Without all the fun activities some of these
workshops and training cannot be fruitful especially
because they are worn out from performing their
workplace duties.