LEADERSHIP CHRONICLES - "FACE OFF" & "MUSIC VIDEOS"

Sometimes it's just fun to be silly, open and vulnerable.  Leaders who create environments where people feel safe to be silly, will benefit from the value of that comes from people feeling comfortable being themselves.  Whenever working with a team, understand that the physiological need for connection drives peoples desire to be part of the team.  Employees leave jobs where they do not feel a sense of connection.  Connection comes when I feel I can be myself and am accepted by the group while being myself.  It's a sense of belonging.  When people do not feel connection, they leave, or even worse they try to adopt the personality and characteristics of someone in the group who is being accepted and who has achieved connection.  This is an example of trying to fit in, instead of belonging.

"Face Off" and "Music Videos" are among several activities we facilitate with our Ryerson University Women's Basketball team for our players to develop comfort being uncomfortable.  Comfort being vulnerable, silly and open.  Once you're silly around your peers a few times, it becomes much easier to just be yourself.

In "Face Off" players go head to head to see who can get the elastic band from above their mouths to their neck only using the muscles in their face.

"Music Videos" is an activity where players pick a song and work together to create their own music video for the song.