fandomhigh | Teamwork Training and Combat Skills; Thursday, Second Period [09/26].

"We've just had two pretty combat-focused classes," Prompto said, getting class started with that eager grin of his yet again, "so this week? We're going to take it down a notch and focus a little more on the teamwork aspects. More specifically, today, we want to do some work with communication."

"Communication," Ignis continued, perhaps with that slight touch to tightness that came with a very personal awareness of the application of words to reality, "is key to success with a team, in all aspects of life, be it on the combat field, in a place of business, or even at home in your personal relationships. In a combat situation, effectively communicating with your teammates has, in many times, been crucial to our success in a battle. A quick rapport can maintain energy, impart important details that the others might not have noticed, or simply share strategies to give one an edge on the field."

"But communication," Gladio added, his deep rumble sounding particularly grim, "can also breakdown pretty easily, too. And sometimes communication can fall on the wrong ears or in the wrong hands, so you've got to be careful and aware, and it's those two concepts we'll be working on today, and then, next week, we'll combine communication and combat together. For now, though, we just want to explore some various aspects of it. Today, we're just going to focus on game to really show how communication can get lost in the jumble. Next week, we'll have some fun with codes, so if you want to get a head start on a code system, you know we'll be impressed, and then we'll bring communication into action. Pretty solid plan, right?

"And so," Ignis concluded smoothly, "in respect to the topic at hand and in hopes of demonstrating effective communication right off the bat, are there any questions before we begin?"

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Communicating effectively!

Steve McGarrett

Gray

Nell Ingram

Hopefully, your instructors are communicating the concepts ahead of you well, but there's always room for questions, comments, or even concerns to clear things up!

"So," Prompto said, "like Gladio said, we're starting with a communication game called Telephone. Are you familiar with it? Just in case you're not, the idea is pretty simple and it's usually an entertaining way of showing how much can get lost the more people a message goes through: someone starts by whispering to the person next to them a message, and then that person whispers to the next person down the line, so on and so forth, until you get to the last person, who then reports what they heard, and you see how much it had morphed down the line from people mishearing or misremembering details of the message as it's passed along!

"Like I said, kind of fun, kind of silly, but still with a good point. So we're going to go through three of these: I'm gonna start a message, and then Gladio will, and Ignis will, and we'll see how it ends up at the end! Got it? We'll start with an alphabetical by first name line, then reverse alphabetical, and the last one will be just wherever we end up! And figuring out who goes where in an alphabetical line, too," he chuckled, "can also be a good communication exercise!"

The order, then, will start with Prompto, who whispers to Arden, and the line of comments will go:

Prompto -> Arden -> Gladio -> Grey -> Ignis -> Jon -> Nell -> Steve

Feel free to change the message as it goes along as little or as much as you'd like, although for the sake of the game, you should at least change it in some way.
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"Ready?" Prompto asked, giving a nod to Arden, before leaning in and whispering, "I went to the store and they were totally out of Cup Noodles^TM."

And then gave her a smirk because that one should be fun to pass along to the next person, right?

The order for this chain will be:

Gladio -> Steve -> Prompto -> Nell -> Jon -> Ignis -> Gray -> Arden

Feel free to change the message as it goes along as little or as much as you'd like, although for the sake of the game, you should at least change it in some way.
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Gladio rubbed his chin a little, considered who was next to him, and then leaned over to whisper, "Make sure to never skip leg day, bruh."

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This was essential intelligence, though! Steve leaned over to Prompto. "Never skip leg day, brah," he murmured.

Prompto listened very carefully, knowing it would be even worse if the teachers were the ones to really break down the communication chain, but his brows furrowed in confusion as he shook his head and leaned over to Nell to offer, "Never sip eggs in broth?"

Yeah, no, he was definitely not confident in that one, but he would insist, when this was all over, that Gladio's choice was terrible and he'd absolutely improved on it

"Never sit legs in troth?" It didn't make much sense to her, but well, that's the way this game went. Hopefully Jon would understand her.

The order for this chain will be:

Ignis -> Jon -> Gray -> Steve -> Gladio -> Arden -> Nell

Feel free to change the message as it goes along as little or as much as you'd like, although for the sake of the game, you should at least change it in some way.
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Gladio and Prompto would be jumbling everyone up together for this one in no particular order, thus leading Ignis to not entirely be sure of who was where in the line, unless you were whispering loudly enough for him to pick out your voice, but he gestured to whoever was next to him before leaning in and offering, "The weather is likely to be quite dismal this afternoon; best bring an umbrella."

And if you want to get a message started, feel free to put together your own chain of students and instructors and get your own message started at will! Because there's definitely time and so why not have a little more fun with it in varying combinations?

Because of course they'd all be willing to communicate with you all even further and on an individual level!

Communication has always been an extremely important skill for Ignis, even more so now than ever, although he will admit (mostly to himself only) that he could probably be better at it in his personal life.

Gladio's form of preferred communication tends to be either loud or to-the-point. Usually both!

Oh, but he had fun being quiet sometimes, even a little sneaky, and Nell loved those times.

"Not sure I'm very good at this telephone game," she said with a smile.

"What's that?" asked Gladio, who really couldn't help himself. "You're not sure you're many foods at this heliodrome fame?"

"Oh you," Nell said with a smile and nudged him. "I'll give you many foods."

And Prompto is definitely a prefers-texting-over-talking sort of guy, especially since he tends to over-communicate when talking!

I was gonna do codes, too, but I did not have the time for it, lol

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