We're Pushing Our Interns Out Of Their Comfort Zone With This Icebreaker
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Nobody likes icebreakers but they are sometimes a necessary evil when it comes to a new group of people getting to know each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Get it the Bert show. |
| 0:02.0 | All right Jackson is being smart here man. |
| 0:04.0 | He's getting Proactive Jackson, art producer, is the one that is back in one of our offices |
| 0:12.0 | with the interns all the time, |
| 0:15.0 | knows them better than anybody else, |
| 0:16.9 | but what he has been doing with our interns |
| 0:20.3 | is at the end of their internship, kind of telling them what they've been doing right what they've been doing right at that point is too late |
| 0:27.6 | Jackson knows this so we got a whole new batch a whole new school a whole new what a whole new semester of |
| 0:34.3 | intern whole new so every go okay more than one intern is called a semester so |
| 0:41.2 | they are in studio now and Jackson is here to get proactive and tell them what to look for what not to look for correct? |
| 0:48.0 | Actually, this is a little bit of a different twist so the thing is when it comes to these interns, I get it, it's an intimidating |
| 0:55.0 | environment to be in with radio, there's a lot of strong personalities that you interact with |
| 0:58.6 | on the day today, and so sometimes it takes a little bit of time for the interns to come out of their shells |
| 1:04.0 | okay and so I want to expedite this process and introduced some dreaded ice |
| 1:10.6 | breakers because you can really only build chemistry on a staff once everybody knows each other, |
| 1:16.4 | and if it's taking them weeks to say anything at all, that's a waste of time. |
| 1:20.4 | So what you're saying is this semester of interns is a very different than the previous one where they came into hot |
| 1:27.2 | This one's coming into cold exactly and I know in my intro to the's best practices that I did earlier I mentioned not to get |
| 1:36.0 | too comfortable too quickly they're just they're not getting too comfortable too quickly |
| 1:40.4 | which is a great thing but they're they're really easing their way in here. |
| 1:43.5 | And there is a lesson to be learned here not just for interns but anybody at a new job also, right? |
| 1:49.0 | So just before we get into the new semester of interns. The old interns, the last, when you said they were, they |
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