Purpose: To satisfy participants’ curiosity about their classmates’ tenure with the company.

 Time Required: 10 minutes.

 Size of Group: Unlimited.

 Materials Required: None.

 The Exercise in Action: Most participants are naturally curious about how much experience others in a class have with their companies. Liz Seely, a market support sales trainer for MCI, starts her sessions by asking participants to write their guesses of the average tenure of all participants. Then she asks each table to add up their number of years with the company and uses that number to find her average for the room. The person with the closest guess wins a small prize.

Depending on the amount of experience represented within the class, Seely makes a point about the incredible amount of experience a group can bring to a class, and that participants shouldn’t be afraid to ask peers for help when they need it.