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Benefits of using role play:
Through the use of role play, training and development can be moulded specifically for each participant, equipping individuals with invaluable life-long learning, confidence in communication and success with their interpersonal skills.
Here are five reasons why Professional role Players find the innovative use of role play beneficial to any work force:
- 1. Role play highlights the difference between, how people think they are communicating and how their communication is perceived by both others around them and themselves.
- 2. Role play stimulates the imagination and enables participants to engage with people’s concerns and complexities within a supportive environment.
- 3. Role play is a dynamic and highly engaging skill that can boost confidence and increase behavioural change; tools which are vital for any work force.
- 4. Role play has an immediate effect and application, strengthening, learning and increasing the probability of using these newly acquired skills outside of the classroom.
- 5. Role play encourages critical thinking, for example, analysis and problem solving skills, which is a cognitive learning method.
“Engage, Educate, Encourage and Embed.” Kathy Morris
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