Consensus-Building Game Explores Decision-Making - Corporate Jinx
Consensus-Building Game Explores Decision-Making - Corporate Jinx is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Form three or four teams with roughly the same number of people.
- Distribute small slips of paper and pens to each team.
- Announce that the aim of this exercise is to achieve group consensus as quickly as possible.
- Over the course of multiple rounds, consensus is achieved when each team submits the same word in the same round.
- Explain that teams are allowed to talk amongst themselves, but not to any other team.
- For each round, each team will have one minute to decide on one word to submit to you (the facilitator.)
- Importantly, once a word has been submitted, it cannot be used again in any round (remember this, because you will likely have to remind your group.)
- Once you have received all the submissions, read them aloud one at a time (but do not indicate which team belongs to any word.)
- Corporate Jinx Consensus-building game that develops group decision-making.
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Form three or four teams with roughly the same number of people.
Over the course of multiple rounds, consensus is achieved when each team submits the same word in the same round.
Explain that teams are allowed to talk amongst themselves, but not to any other team.
For each round, each team will have one minute to decide on one word to submit to you (the facilitator.)
Importantly, once a word has been submitted, it cannot be used again in any round (remember this, because you will likely have to remind your group.)
Once you have received all the submissions, read them aloud one at a time (but do not indicate which team belongs to any word.)
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Consensus-Building Game Explores Decision-Making - Corporate Jinx. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form three or four teams with roughly the same number of people.; Over the course of multiple rounds, consensus is achieved when each team submits the same word in the same round.; Explain that teams are allowed to talk amongst themselves, but not to any other team.; For each round, each team will have one minute to decide on one word to submit to you (the facilitator.). Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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