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Personal Disclosure ยท Reflection and Learning

Do Talk Give Take

Take an introspective look at how you interact with your community in within your various roles. For sales teams, this can be applied to relationships with specific customers.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Pairs, Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
BalancedENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
Medium cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Give each pair/quad/People Science Team the matrix shown above
  2. Ask the groups to consider the multiple roles they hold in their lives or projects they are a part of, or
  3. For example, in the role of "Mother" I am a giver and a doer, so I would place "mother" in the upper right quadrant
  4. Do Talk Give Take Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Take an introspective look at how you interact with your community in within your various roles.
  5. Process Give each pair/quad/People Science Team the matrix shown above.
  6. Cool Possibilities/Options If you have a really tight knit community, you could fill this in with members names and then discuss why.
  7. 136 simply discuss the truth behind it People Science Data Capture Minimum.
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Prompts to use +

Give each pair/quad/People Science Team the matrix shown above

Ask the groups to consider the multiple roles they hold in their lives or projects they are a part of, or

For example, in the role of "Mother" I am a giver and a doer, so I would place "mother" in the upper right quadrant

Do Talk Give Take Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Take an introspective look at how you interact with your community in within your various roles.

Process Give each pair/quad/People Science Team the matrix shown above.

Cool Possibilities/Options If you have a really tight knit community, you could fill this in with members names and then discuss why.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Do Talk Give Take. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Give each pair/quad/People Science Team the matrix shown above; Ask the groups to consider the multiple roles they hold in their lives or projects they are a part of, or; For example, in the role of "Mother" I am a giver and a doer, so I would place "mother" in the upper right quadrant; Do Talk Give Take Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Take an introspective look at how you interact with your community in within your various roles.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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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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