Midterm Review

Leadership Games Festival

Midterm Review

Leadership Skills

What are we reviewing?

1. MBTI

2. Critical & Strategic Thinking

3. Emotional Intelligence

4. Implicit Bias

5. Decision Styles

Announcements

MBTI Mix & match

Reinforce understanding of MBTI dichotomies and celebrate diverse leadership strengths.

Our MBTI

13%

ISFJ: Judith, Dazia, Edgar

The Defender:

• Warm, unassuming, efficient and responsible, careful attention to practical details

• Extremely loyal and energized by helping others

• May find change difficult

• "Good enough" is rarely good enough for ISFJs - can be perfectionists

• Introverted by have a deep social nature and can remember details of other people's lives

• May be overly humble and take things too personally

2%

INTJ: Melissa, Isaac

The Mastermind:

• Vision, mastery, improvement, love perfecting the details of life, inner world is very private and complex

• Driven to master all topics that pique their interest

• Logial and quick-qitted, uncanny ability to see through phoniness and hypocrisy

• Extremely independent and shake off others' expectations to pursue their own ideas

• May not show a lot of warmth, but are deeply feeling, but need a ton of alone time

• When emotionally unhealthy, can be arrogant, combative, and socially clueless

9%

ISFP: Andrew

The Adventurer:

• Values self-expression, ability to find joy in everyday life

• Open-minded and want fairness in everything

• Want a world where everyone has the freedom to do what they want

• Very social but need a lot of alone time to recharge

• Creative and not concerned to let their uniqueness shine

• May struggle with getting stressed easily and fitting within an established structure

5%

INFP: Luke

The Mediator:

• Kind and altruistic, always eager to help a good cause, very sensitive to moral and ethical issues

• Creative and imaginative and can lose themselves in daydreams and stories

• Compassionate and nonjudgmental always willing to hear another's story - very empathetic

• Self-expressive often through metaphors and fictional characters

• Feel directionless or lost until they find their purpose

• May struggle with self-isolation, and become unfocused when emotionally unhealthy

13%

ESFJ: Sam

The Consul:

• Very caring, social, community-minded people who are always eager to help

• Generous and reliable and make people feel supported

• Do best in environments with order and structure, when events are planned not spontaneous

• May sometimes may not accept that they cannot control others' thoughts and behaviors

• Need to feel appreciated for how they are contributing

• May struggle with being inflexible or needy, and can be too selfless at times

5%

ENFJ: Brooke, Oussama

The Protagonist:

• Inspiring optimists, readily taking action for what is right

• Strive to have positive impact on other people and the world around them

• Charismatic and often politicians, coaches, and teachers

• Genuine and talk the talk and walk the walk

• Able to immediately pick up on people's underlying motivations and beliefs

• May struggle with being overly idealistic or condescending when emotionally unhealthy

6%

ENFP: Samantha? Maybe INFP

The Campaigner:

• Enthusiastic, creative, and sociable free spirits who find reasons to smile

• Regularly the life of the party, but also crave deep meaningful connections

• Independent and creative, pondering the deeper significance of life - often when they should pay attention to something else

• Perceptive with strong intuition

• Excellent communicators and regularly easygoing

• May struggle with being disorganized and unfocused and people pleasing when emotionally unhealthy

Quick, high energy rounds that showcase diverse thinking and interaction styles -- each one designed to be "naturally winnable" by a different MBTI profile.

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MBTI Advantage Challenge

Decision reflex lab

Strengthen ability to make quick, clear, and ethical decisions under uncertainty.

Build comfort making solo decisions.

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Hot Seat Leader2025 Healthcare Politics Edition

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Chain of command

How miscommunication & incomplete information alters decisions.

Scenario 1

Example

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Reverse Chain

How miscommunication & incomplete information alters decisions.

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

EQI showdown

Test how accurately and instintively you can recognize, interpret, and apply emotional intelligence in real time.

EQ Lightning Ladder

Build rapid recognition of EQI quadrants through quick, competetive recall.

Rounds

Lightning

Reading the Room

Practice noticing subtle, real-time emotional cues in others during shared moments of humor or tension.

• Small smile/half-smirk
• Suppressed grin (tightened lips or looking down)
• Soft exhale or silent chuckle
• Raised eyebrows
• Side glance at a peer
• Heat tilt with amused disbelief ("really?")
• Shifting posture slightly during groan-worthy joke
• Glancing around to gauge others' reactions
• Quick nose scrunch or brow furrow
• Adjusting glasses, hair, or sleeve
• Rolling eyes or blinking longer than usual
• Mirroring a peer's micro-smile or eye contact
• Relaxed shoulders or sigh after tension releases
• Any others you see and Melissa validates...

Mind Moves: Thinking

Test quick, critical, and strategic thinking through fast-paced challenges that reveal how assumptions, patterns, and collaboration shape leadership decisions.

Thumb Wrestle Twist

• Does everyone know how to thumb wrestle?

• Pair up with a thumb wrestling partner.

• One point is earned for every time one thumb is pinned.

• You have three minutes.

Reveal how hidden assumptions shape critical and strategic choices.

Thinking trap tally

Expose cognitive shortcuts and System 1 bias.

Introvert

Conflict

Consensus

Group Chat

Due Date

If we disagree, someone must be wrong.

If everyone agrees instantly, we probably didn't think hard enough.

Good ideas can come from the quietest person in the room.

If nobody in the group chat replies, that means everything is fine.

We finished our slides at 3am - that proves our dedication.

Thinking trap tally Twist

Expose cognitive shortcuts and System 1 bias.

Fairness

Change

Risks

Rewards

Complaints

People who don't care resist change.

Every risk that pays off proves intuition beats analysis.

If it benefits most people, it's automatically fair.

If we reward outcomes, behavior will follow.

If no one has complained yet, our plan must be working.

Pattern Breakers

Rewarding lateral thinking and flexibility.

ROUND 3: Pattern Breaks

ROUND 2: Leadership

ROUND 1: Warm Ups

Meetings

Projects

School

Happiness

The Boss

Stalling

Wi-Fi

Failure

The Boss II

Success

Rhyme

Cliches

Fast Thinking: Hidden Bias

To reveal how unconscious shortcuts shape perception and decision making -- and strengthens leaders' ability to recognize, decode, and correct bias in real time.

Bias Speed Match

Recognize the bias in everyday comments and assumptions.

Answer Key

Bias Decoder

Recognize coded bias in everyday language.

Bias Type(s)

Decoded Meaning (What's Implied)

Coded Phrase (What's Said)

1. She's polished for her age.

1. Surprise at age competence.

1. Age + Gender

2. He's a strong candidate, even coming from where he's from.

2. Lowered expectations due to race, region, or class.

2. Racial/Socioeconomic

3. She's so put together for a single mom.

3. Single moms are unstable or unprofessional.

3. Gender + Family

4. They're very open about who they are.

4. Discomfort with LGBTQ+ visibility.

4. LGBTQ+

5. He's sensitive, but that's just his passion.

5. Need for tolerance of men with high EQI.

5. Gender

6. We want someone who is a cultural fit.

6. Preference for sameness.

6. Could be any

Bias Trivia

Advanced Implicit Bias Theory

Fast Thinking

Mental Shortcuts

With EQI

Researchers

Prejudice

In Healthcare

Bias Trivia II

Advanced Implicit Bias Theory

Technology

Confidence

IAT

Sameness

Slowing Down

Color Blind

Learning Synthesized

Quick games to synthesize all units together.

Leadership Gauntlet

Judge by: sound reasoning, awareness of others, fairness, long-term view

ROUND 3: Finals

ROUND 2: Semi Finals

ROUND 1: Entry Level

Ethics

Cutting Cost

Deadline

Eye Roll

Personality

Promotion

Accents

Conflict

Day Off ++

Rapid Fire Reflection

Prompt fast, instinctive self-insight that connects learning across all units.

EQI

Decisions

Implicit Bias

Critical Thinking

MBTI

Choose One

Sequenced by prompts

Sequenced by prompts

Sequenced by prompts

Choose One

Break into pairs. You'll answer these questions as if you're the professor of this course:

• What would you keep about this class?
• What would you change about this class?
• What is one thing you'd add about the class?

Guided Meditation: Positive Mindset

Who is the winner?

gratitude

Trataka (Candle Gazing)

• From Buddhist tradition
• Brings energy to the third eye
• Human eye has 200 million parts and our fastest muscle
• We constantly have jerking microsopic movements
• Tratake stills the eye movement
• Improves focus and concentration
• Goal is not to blink
• Self-care: Blink when necessary, avoid any pain.

finish review or guest spaker

Next Class

Words You'd Want Your Boss To Describe You With

A patient asks for a provider of their same race, claiming cultural comfort -- do you honor or deny the request?

Statements & Behaviors

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You learn that a patient family complains more often about staff with accents. How do you handle it?

Smart Ways To Stall When You Need More Time (i.e. "I'll double-check the data")

Two team members accuse each other of microaggressions. You’re their manager — what’s your next step?

Confidence

Which type of bias might appear in the phrase, "They're so confident - it's intimidating?"

A coworker rolls their eyes whenever you speak in meetings. What do you do?

A student posts a TikTok criticizing your organization's vaccine policy and it goes viral-- do you discipline them?

IAT

What's the main goal of taking an Implicit Association Test?

Your organization is cutting costs. Leadership asks you to justify why your program should survive — you have 30 seconds.

Strategy Round: You have $10, one hour, and a backpack. How would you use them to make someone's day better?Plan that feels the most realistic and clever wins.

MBTI

• My biggest strength in a crisis is...
• I get stuck when people...
• My MBTI type helps me lead by...
• The opposite type from me teaches me...

Decision Making

• My fastest good decision ever was...
• The worst reason to make a decision is...
• If I had 10 more seconds to think, I would have...
• Good leaders always remember to...

You discover a small but ongoing ethical violation that’s benefiting the department financially. Reporting it may jeopardize jobs. What do you do?

You’re offered a promotion that requires undermining a peer’s opportunity. What’s your move?

Scenario 3: The Reversal Investigation

• Problem: As COO, you report that federal grant funds have been misused, and your CEO responds by launching an investigation against you for unethical conduct.
• Solution: Secure documentation, seek independent legal counsel, and report the retaliation to the grant's federal oversight agency.
• Rationale: Protects whistleblower integrity - leaders act transparently even when truth-telling puts them at personal risk.

In Healthcare

In healthcare, which group has been historically under-treated for pain due to false biological beliefs?

You learn that a community outreach program excludes LGBTQ+ youth for "safety reasons"-- do you continue the partnership?

Instructions

• Each student has a turn being in the "hot seat" at the front of the class.
• Melissa reads a scenario.
• Hot seat has 10 seconds to state decision and reasoning.
• Class sores 1-5 for clarity, fairness, and feasibility.
• Winner: Highest total score after everyone rotates.

Scenario 2: The Inappropriate Interview

• Problem: After being unemployed for some time and caring for a baby, you interview for a leadership role, and the CEO asks, "Who did you have to do to get your past positions?"
• Solution: End the interview immediately, document the incident, and file a formal complaint with the organization's board or external oversight body.
• Rationale: Demonstrates moral courage and boundary-setting - refusing to tolerate harrassment even when it risks career opportunity.

Instructions:

• Get into a "circle."
• I'll call a category (i.e. breakfast foods).
• You'll take turns naming items -- no repeats or pauses.
• If you hesitate or repeat, you're out for the round.
• Last student(s) standing win the round.

Creativity Sprint: In 30 seconds, come up with a completely new emoji that should exist -- describe it and what it means. Best or funniest wins.

Implicit Bias & Perspective

• A bias I caught myself having this term was...
• People often assume I'm ..., but actually...
• A time I chose fairness over comfort was...
• Something I now see differently is...

Color Blind

In communication, why might saying "I don't see color," be problematic?

Instructions:

• Each phrase sounds ordinary - but they contain coded messages. Your job is to decode the bias hiding underneath.
• I'll show a phrase. Pound the table when you think you have decoded the bias.
• Extra points if you can name the bias type.
• Winner: Those with the most points at the end.

Easy Ways To Make Group Projects Worse

Instructions:

• Break into two teams. Choose a player from each team to come to the front of the room.
• Melissa reads a statement or behavior.
• Students at the front compete to identify the corresponding quadrant as quickly as possible.
• Repeat.
• Winner: Team with the highest number of points.

Things Professionals Say Too Often (i.e. "let's circle back," "at the end of the day")

Instructions:

• Break into pairs. Each pair takes a turn in front of the class.
• Those not in the winner's circle vote by: sound reasoning, awareness of others, fairness, and long-term view.
• The winner of each pair moves to the Winner Circle.
• Continue until one final champion remains.

Sameness

Which common workplace phrase is often code for preferring cultural sameness.

Announcements:

• We may not finish review this week - may delay guest speaker.
• Who can take this class next semester?
• Who wants to take this class next semester?
• Other announcements?

You’re in charge of staffing, and your two most reliable employees ask for the same day off. What’s your decision?

Last Pair

School Supplies

Precision Round: List five objects in the room that have metal in them.

Instructions:

• In the last round, winning depended on how you defined success. Same thing here.
• Your partner will be your thumb wrestling buddy.
• From now on, your pair's score only counts when you both get it right.
• Strategic thinkers stay in sync.

When I go over your typology, write the four letters, your name, and title on an index card.

Technology

What kind of bias is most often reflected when judging someone's technology skills.

Fast Thinking

The "fast thinking" system in the brain, where bias often operates, is known as what?

Prejudice

True or False: Having bias automatically means you are prejudiced.

A hospital partner starts using AI tools that show bias in patient triage-- do you halt collaboration or try to fix it internally?

Scenario 3: The Repeat Arrest

• Problem: A client with mild cognitive disabilities, age 18, keeps being arrested for misdemeanors and calls you to bail her out again.
• Solution: Decline personal bail but arrange legal advocacy and coordinate probation and social services for behavioral-support intervention.
• Rationale: Sets compassionate boundaries while promoting accountability and sustainable support systems.

Instructions:

• Melissa will read off a series of statements.
• Put up one finger if the logic is sound. Two fingers if the statement is illogical.
• Give yourself a point for every one you get correct.

Instructions:

• Break into teams.
• Answer each trivia question the fastest with greatest accuracy.
• Internet searches are welcomed.
• Winner: The team with the most points.

Words You Wouldn't Want Your Boss To Describe You With

Memory Round: Without looking around, write down three people's shirt colors in this room.

Scenario 1: Death on Overnight Shift

• Problem: A staff member dies during her overnight shift in a group home for people with severe cognitive disabilities. It's identified when the morning shift comes in.

• Solution: Notify authorities immediately, contact the family, provide trauma debriefing for clients and staff, and document every action.
• Rationale: Balances procedural duty with human compassion -- leaders must respond to crisis as both investigators and caretakers.

Guidelines for Dialogue

We'll explore complex leadership decisions that mirror today's social and political realities. The goal is not what is right or wrong, but to practice clarity, courage, and compassion when values collide.

• Approach with curiosity, not judgment
• We separate people from the ideas they share
• Listening is leadership: seek to understand before responding
• Assume good intent - we're all learning
• Respectful disagreement is welcome
• Our focus is on decision quality and reasoning, not ideology

A clinic patient refuses care from a provider who wears a Pride pin -- do you reassign the case or uphold the provider's right to expression?

Scenario 1: The Scapegoat Order

• Problem: After bad press from a predecessor, corporate instructs to you fire a director to restore public confidence.

• Solution: Refuse to terminate without cause, propose an external review of leadership accountability instead.
• Rationale: Upholds ethical leadership -- protects morale, transparency, and fairness even under political pressure.

Your hospital's board considers removing reproductive care information from its website to avoid political backlash-- do you support the change?

A coworker refuses to use a patient's chosen pronouns, citing religious freedom-- do you intervene or accommodate both?

Lightning Round

Statements and behaviors overlap two quadrants. Name the two quadrants.

A team member brings in an "All Lives Matter" mug to work after the organization endorsed Black Lives Matter-- do you respond?

Sings A Plan Might Fail (i.e. "when someone says it will be quick")

Instructions:

• A awkwardly funny video clip is played.
• Your job is to observe your classmates.
• When you see one of the cues in your classmate, raise your hand.
• If Melissa agrees, you get a point.
• Winner: Student(s) who earn the most points.

Wordplay Round: Come up with a new word for the feeling when you finally finish finals week.Funniest or most fitting wins.

Emotional Intelligence

• When I'm frustrated, the best thing someone can do is...
• My emotional blind spot is...
• I knew I was growing up when I...
• I shown empathy by...

During a press interview, you're asked about the organization's stance on DEI initiatives amid political pressure to cut them off -- how do you respond?

Instructions:

• You have five seconds to give a one word/phrase response to each prompt. Longer are disqualified.
• After each round, the class votes for their favorite response: honest, insightful, or funniest.
• Winner: Those with the most stickers.

Things That Make College Students Happy

Your healthcare facility receives a large donation from a company accused of environmental violations-- do you accept it?

Empathy Round: Write down a compliment to Melissa that would genuinely make me smile. The one that feels the most thoughtful or kind wins.

You're asked to remove a community health poster about contraception from a faith-based partner site-- do you comply?

Your city government asks your clinic to collect immigration status data for "security purposes" -- do you comply?

Speed Round: Name as many songs, movies, or shows with the word heart in the title as you can in 20 seconds.Highest count wins.

Critical & Strategic Thinking

• When I overthink, it sounds like...
• The smartest shortcut I've learned is...
• I make better decisions when I...
• A trap I still fall for is...

A legislator offers funding for your program -- but only if you stop referring paitnets to Planned Parenthood-- do you take it?

Words That Rhyme With Lead

Connection Round: Find someone in the room who shares any hobby or interest with you -- raise your hands together. First successful pair wins.

A staff member shares misinformation about gender-affirming care on social media-- do you address it publicly or privately?

Your team misses a grant deadline because one staff member misunderstood the instructions. How do you respond in tomorrow’s meeting?

Example: The Breaking-News Crisis

• Problem: The day before you start overseeing 200 long-term care beds, news breaks that a staff member has been arrested for sexual assault of clients and filming it.
• Solution: Delay all public comment, activate internal crisis protocol, and coordinate with compliance and law enforcement before stepping on site.
• Rationale: Ensures facts are verified, victims are protected, and leadership begins with integrity and control -- avoiding reactive statements or blame.

Researchers

Which two researchers introduced the Implicit Association Test (IAT) in the 1990s?

Observation Round: I'll flash an object for three seconds. Then I'll cover it. Write down every detail you remember.Most correct details wins.

Instructions

• Everyone plays individually.
• I'll give you a challenge round. Complete as quickly as you can.
• Melissa is the judge, and the winners of each round will earn a sticker.
• Keep your stickers on your index card.

Logic Round: You have 10 seconds to write down the next number in this pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, _______.

With EQI

What phrase describes the leadership skill of recognizing and managing one's own biases?

Instructions

• We all stand in a line.
• First student receives a written problem and solution.
• They whisper only the decision to the next person.
• Final person must explain the reasoning of the decision "the problem" to reconstruct the missing context and logic.

These are all scenarios from my career.

Reasons Your Wi-Fi Isn't Working

Instructions:

• The goal is to match each phrase with the correct type of bias as quickly as possible.
• Work with a partner.
• I'll give a timer. The partners that correctly match all or the most within the timeframe win.

Sings A Plan Might Succeed (i.e. "we have contingency plans")

Mental Shortcuts

What term describes automatic mental shortcuts that influence how we make quick judgments?

Scenario 2: The Tooth-Brushing Mandate

• Problem: The State threatens to deny certification unless a program plan teaches a 70-year-old client with severe disabilities to brush his teeth independently.
• Solution: Develop the plan but document objections, citing dignity and least-restrictive-environment principles.
• Rationale: Demonstrates compliance without compromising ethics -- protects client rights while meeting regulatory expectations.

Instructions

• We all stand in a line.
• First student receives a written problem and solution.
• They whisper only the problem to the next person.
• Final person must explain the solution of the decision to reconstruct the missing context and logic.

These are all scenarios from my career.

Your boss tells you to keep quiet about racial disparities in health outcomes because "it makes the hospital look bad"-- do you stay silent or speak up?

Slowing Down

What's one strategy leaders can use to slow down biased decision making?

Ways To Make A Boring Meeting Fun (i.e. "bring snacks")

A staff member with a strong personality dominates meetings but produces results. How do you address team frustration?