In this fun game/activity, a teacher can demonstrate to scholars the way the inverted organizational structure – allowing the frontline folk in a company to point the higher management and the middle management – can benefit a team.
Purpose:
To show the Inverted Organizational Structure model. This model announces that the traditional organizational structure of President, officials/committee chairs, and participants/members be flipped upside down to be participants/members, officers/panel chairs, and president. This implies that leaders of setups should encourage and use the strengths of members to help the group attain their goal. In this situation, the goal is to make an effective aeroplane in one minute and throw the paper aeroplane a good distance. We are able to use the skills of the group to help wrestling group members do throwing the airplane effectively.
Steps:
- Before telling everyone that they're going to be making an aircraft, hand each classmate one sheet of paper. Everyone should write their initials on the paper so you know whose plane went the farthest.
– Tell the class that the goal is to make the paper plane that goes the farthest.
– They have 25 seconds. Start the time and say “Go.”
– Use a clock to countdown, and announce when they have 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 seconds left.
– Tell the class to take their hands away from the aeroplane.
– Bring the class out into the corridor to launch the planes. They are going to stand behind a starting line and all throw in the same direction. Depending on the quantity of people attending class that day, have scholars throw in different groups.
– The class will go into the room and will be handed another bit of paper.
– Outside in the hallway, activity leaders will mark which planes went the farthest and shortest distances, as well as the median distance. This is to show that the planes go farther the second time.
– In the room, have the person that threw the farthest demonstrate and explain the easy way to make a good paper plane. ALSO, have them show how to throw the airplane.
– Round two. They have 25 seconds again. Count down at ten, five, four, three, two, and just one seconds seconds.
– Bring the group into the hallway again to throw the planes. Note how much further the planes went this time.
– Everybody goes back inside to debrief the activity and explain what occurred.
– Explain the Inverted Organizational Structure model
– Ask the class for collusion
– Did we do our target and increase paper plane throwing capabilities?
– Did you feel shy teaching the class the proper way to launch your paper airplane the furthest?
– Did the class feel better about their paper aeroplane folding capabilities before or after the exercise?
– Is a top-bottom pecking order important to run an organisation, or do you suspect that bottom-up works better?
Vas Blagodarskiy, a student at the Varsity of Maryland in School Park, MD is the writer of http://qualities-of-a-leader.com/. To learn more about the inverted organizational model, see http://qualities-of-a-leader.com/traditional-vs-inverted-organizational-structure/