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"Your Lieutenant is new--and nervous. He's depending on you to help him win the support of a village leader. Can you choose the best advice?

This online role-play addresses issues of rapport and negotiation. It’s a self-paced adaptation of the classroom Critical Incident Scenarios that we’ve been creating. Because it’s being used in the Senior Leader Course at the Fort Huachuca NCO Academy, it features a Sergeant advising his Lieutenant on how best to proceed through the encounter.

In Connect with Haji Kamal, there are twelve possible endings, but only two of them are what you want. See if you can find the best endings, and be prepared to discuss the cultural reasons for your decisions in class.

One trip through the game will take about 10 minutes.

Feedback on the “Connect with Haji Kamal” prototype has been positive. Instructors at the Fort Huachuca NCO Academy assign it as homework to prepare students for the culture lesson, which focuses on rapport, communication, and negotiation skills. In discussing what they like about the activity, the instructors have cited its “ease of use,” “that it prompted the majority of the discussion,” and that it “brought forth real world experiences from the Soldiers.”

When students were asked, at the completion of the homework activity, whether they were looking forward to the next day’s culture lesson, 70% responded positively. And 65% said they might use the “Haji Kamal” activity as part of culture training for their own units. [source: World Warfighter]

Distribution : Internet - Free
Platform(s) : Browser

Links

• Play it Now !
• http://www.worldwarfighter.com/2010/04/connect-with-haji-kamal/
• http://www.kinection.com/projects/project-connect-with-haji-kamal [...]