Professional Workshop on Multidimensionality of Character - MBA502

This project details a two-day professional workshop designed to help employees in a clinical institution understand their character strengths across six core virtues: civic, humanity, temperance, transcendence, cognitive, and emotional. The workshop incorporates ice-breaker activities, introductions, and a character-building YouTube video to establish a comfortable environment. Participants engage in team activities, including a jelly bean exercise to identify and illustrate their character strengths, and complete a questionnaire to measure these strengths. Role-playing and simulation activities, involving scenarios like a bus terminal interaction, allow participants to mimic different character strengths and analyze their reactions. A brainstorming session follows, encouraging participants to reflect on the simulation, identify their strengths, and consider how to apply them in various social interactions. The workshop aims to promote self-evaluation, positive change, and an understanding of how character strengths impact others, especially in a medical setting where emotional care is crucial. The interactive activities and practical application are designed to make the learning experience engaging and impactful.

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP ON
MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF CHARACTER
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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.