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Your Ear Knows
June 6, 2007 • By Bob Pike and Betsy Allen

Adapt this puzzler to your content. Once the puzzle has been worked out, use the activity to start a discussion on attention to detail, creative thinking or problem solving.

 

Set-up Script

Pretend you are training pharmaceutical representatives or medical professionals of any kind. Once they have the puzzle (either projected or on chart paper), ask which Margaret likes doing: writing scripts or giving samples and why?

Hint: Where are the silent letters?

 

VERBAL 

This is a  VERBAL energizer

VERBAL

 

 

Margaret, the nurse,

likes syringes but not

unknown needles;

she likes surgery but not

knives. Does she like

writing scripts or

giving samples? 

 

This opener or energizer is from Bob Pike and Betsy Allen’s book Powerful Presentations, to be released June 2007. The book has 39 openers, puzzlers and energizers to help focus your group with relevant activities and graphics. To order, call The Bob Pike Group at 800-383-9210 or at our e-Store.


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