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Paradigm Shift
“Paradigm Shift” is an all time important issue. You being a faculty or a trainer must be finding the need to highlight the concepts of paradigms in your various workshops and seminars irrespective of what topics or modules they cover. So, here is an exercise that you will find quite handy and useful in explaining the “paradigms” and “paradigm shift”.
Give each one of your workshop/seminar participants the following jumbled up pieces of words and phrases written on a paper. Ask them to read the words/phrases carefully and let them select out at a time two of them as a pair such that in each selected pair one word or phrase is almost or completely opposite of the other word or phrase.
As a demonstration, select out from the distributed paper the phrases “Hard work’” and “Smart work”. Ask your program participants to make two columns on their note pad, the title of the first column being “Old Way” and that of the other being “New Way”. Ask them to fill the first column with “Hard work” as the old way of doing any work and the second column with “Smart work” as the new way of doing the work. Explain to them that “working hard” was an old paradigm and “working smart” has replaced it as a new paradigm of working.
Tell them that they should start picking up the rest of the pairs of words/phrases from the jumbled up list given to them and arrange the phrases/words in the two columns.
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Local Collaborate Work designed by employees
Add cost Control-order-predict (COP)
Internal alliance Command First time right
Idea-intensive production Uncovering errors
Individual courses
Lateral Add value Material-intensive production
High trust Continuous learning
Low trust Hard work
Work designed by management Hiding errors
Internal competition
Hierarchical Acknowledge-create-empower (ACE)
Smart work Global Rework
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They may need some fifteen to twenty minutes to complete this exercise. You may notice that some participants may give up some way down the lane.
Now ask the person who completed the exercise the fastest to shout out the arrangement of phrases/words in the two columns. If he goes wrong in some cases, you can invite other participants to correct. If no one volunteers in some specific cases, you can fill them in.
The exercise does not end here. Now ask the participants to extend the list in “Old Way” and “New Way” columns by at least 10 more entries. The opposing paradigms added by them should be based on their observations, knowledge, experience and their own thinking. They can as well add some new paradigms of futuristic nature through their own imagination.
Request the participants to present their paradigm shift extensions to the list with their explanations wherever necessary.
It is an experiential learning exercise and by the time they finish with the whole exercise they will have adequate clarity on the concepts of paradigm and paradigm shift. They would have also learnt and realized the importance and necessity of becoming flexible in their thinking patterns about various aspects of their personal, professional, family and social lives.
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