Welcome to Mrs. Laughing pants and her Lunch Bag training crew. Please take your seat and be prepared for a fun and exciting training hour. Boy, are you in for a treat!
The purpose of this training hour is to give HR managers or anyone interested in this field- the real deal in solving workforce issues using case studies. The premise of this training hour is to use mysteries to solve workforce issues. The stage is set using Mrs. Laughing pants and her twenty-three characters. All the characters have issues to solve. There is even a mystery about each characters' name and their childhood past times. Can you guess? (Hint!!). As Mrs. Laughing Pants introduces her training crew, think about which one of the characters you resonate well with and why?
First clue: One of the Lunch Bag Training Crew leaked a department secret. Who is the culprit?
“Welcome to The Lunch Bag Training hour. This is a live training taking place during your lunch hour. My name is Mrs. Laughing Pants. I love helping people develop their true passion. I would like to learn about you and the issues you have. Please reserve all questions to the end. Please write your questions down and I will answer them before closing. Our theme today will be airplane,” said Mrs. Laughing Pants.
As a warm up exercise, Mrs. Laughing pants gave her participants a baggage claim activity card to fill out. Participants are asked to pack their bags with five interesting things about their lives. This activity will take 10 minutes. After participants completed, their baggage claim card they have to go around the room and introduce themselves to each other and exchange their card. During the introduction, participants have to tell each other what is in their bag and then exchange the card. Participants will have the opportunity to exchange baggage card that don’t belong to them. This is to help them to learn about other people’s baggage. (Edie West, The big book of icebreakers, p.47) A fun activity for a group to get to know each other. Here comes the characters:
1. Mr. Input is 31 years old- A child baseball enthusiast.
2. Mrs Put-it-off is 26 years old – she collected and recycled bottles growing up.
3. Mr. Pending is 45 years old. - As a child he loved coloring outside the boundary.
4. Mrs. Crisis Manager is 36 years old – built ant’s farms as a child.
5. Mr. Troubleshooter is 55-years old and worked with animal rescue in his earlier life.
6. Mr. Never Know is 27 years old. - A great chess player in his early teens.
7. Mrs. Albeit a 45 years old woman, who enjoyed playing dress-up as a child.
8. Mr. Energizer is 35 years old male, who loved horseracing as a child.
9. Mrs. Meditation is a 29 years female, who excelled at visualizing as a child.
10. Mr. Prayer is 60 years old male who enjoyed reading mystery stories as a child.
11. Mr. Bonus is a 47 years old male, who delivered newspaperas a boy.
12. Mr. Project Manager is 32 years old male, who made cars out of pans growing up.
13. Mrs. Clue is 27 years old female, was a great storyteller during her growing years.
14. Mr. Solve-it is 35 years old and enjoyed communicating with animals during his early teens.
15. Ms Put-it-back is 25 years old and loved creating scrapbook stories in her early teens.
16. Ms People-oriented is 32 years old female, who enjoyed reading to her aunts during her early childhood.
17. Mr. Animate is 55 years old male, a super sleuth as a kid, who loved Scooby-do.
18. Ms Growth and Developer is 26 years and enjoyed playing dress-up as a young child.
19. Ms Stimulant is 36 years and enjoyed drinking coffee as a kid.
20. Ms Empathetic is 22 years old and sang in the school choir and still sings in the shower and when no one is around.
21. Ms Know-it-all is 28 years old who likes to tell stories.
22. Mrs. Always-right is 46 years old and gets a kick out of predicting stories endings.
23. Mr. Security is 55 years old and loves teddy bears.
Training location is Brainteaser Inc., which is on Innovation Road, MN. What do these characters have in common? Stay tuned.
Reference
West, E., (1999). The big book of icebreakers. McGraw-Hill, N.Y.
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