• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      The problem is the lack of structure.

      I organize a lot of workshops involving people from experts to executives, where you always need an introduction round, and I give them a structure to follow. Makes the task it easier, but it’ll also be much more useful for the group, as we’ll focus in the aspects of a person that matter for the context of the workshop.

      For a class intro in primary school, it could be:

      • name and age
      • nickname you’d like others to call you
      • favorite subject
      • favorite hobby / free time activity

      I just made this up, but a teacher could probably come up with something even more fitting.

      The point is, always give people structure or guidance, you’ll get much more out of similar introduction rounds.

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        Sure but in the real world you will sometimes get this and sometimes get no structure. It’s been about 50/50 for me so far. Being able to do either on the fly is good.