25/10 Crowd Sourcing
25/10 Crowd Sourcing is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Invite each participant to write a big idea and first step on his or her card. 5 min.
- Conduct five 3-minute exchange-and-scoring rounds with time for milling (and laughing) in between. 15 min.
- Ask participants to add the 5 scores on the back of the card they are holding
- End by asking, “What caught your attention about 25/10?” 2 min.
- Live action rounds of 25/10 @ the Liberating Lean LS workshop. "Mill and pass," then "Read and Score + raise your hand when you are done scoring," then "Mill and Pass,"... "Read and score" repeated in five rounds. Thanks to Deborah Needham.
- Develop a group’s ability to quickly tap their own very diverse sources of wisdom
- With 25/10 Crowd Sourcing, you can spread innovations “out and up” as everyone notices the patterns in what emerges.
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Prompts to use +
Invite each participant to write a big idea and first step on his or her card. 5 min.
Ask participants to add the 5 scores on the back of the card they are holding
Live action rounds of 25/10 @ the Liberating Lean LS workshop. "Mill and pass," then "Read and Score + raise your hand when you are done scoring," then "Mill and Pass,"... "Read and score" repeated in five rounds. Thanks to Deborah Needham.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 25/10 Crowd Sourcing. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Invite each participant to write a big idea and first step on his or her card. 5 min.; Ask participants to add the 5 scores on the back of the card they are holding; Live action rounds of 25/10 @ the Liberating Lean LS workshop. "Mill and pass," then "Read and Score + raise your hand when you are done scoring," then "Mill and Pass,"... "Read and score" repeated in five rounds. Thanks to Deborah Needham.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Liberating Structures; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including Liberating Structures, SessionLab.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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