The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques, and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance

16.6. Relationships Within Hierarchy

The next two exercises reveal how someone else's role or perceived power may influence our behaviors toward them and whether we include or exclude them from our networks. The facilitator may want to use one or both of these exercises for groups that will benefit from more diversity in their network hierarchy.

16.6.1. Exercise 10. Status Scene

This exercise will progress more smoothly with participants who have already tried scene work, so it is an ideal follow-up to the scene work exercise described earlier.

16.6.1.1. Instructions

This scene is with four players. Each of the four participants assigns one of the other people a higher status and one a lower status. They do not reveal these assignments. Now ...