Finding Collaboration Ideas
Finding Collaboration Ideas is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- In people science teams, have participants utilize the following six resources for obtaining fresh collaboration ideas
- Mimic an existing industry/natural phenomenon
- And don't just mimic, look at why they do things, how they do things
- What exercises do they use to get started?
- Don't Google for your collaboration idea, Google for weak or starter ideas you already have in place and it will become excellent
- Create a PowerPoint, or email, or napkin illustration around your ideas and then record your voice
- Have you ever seen a sport that didn't have rules around it?
- Draw it out scene by scene
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Prompts to use +
In people science teams, have participants utilize the following six resources for obtaining fresh collaboration ideas
Mimic an existing industry/natural phenomenon
And don't just mimic, look at why they do things, how they do things
What exercises do they use to get started?
Don't Google for your collaboration idea, Google for weak or starter ideas you already have in place and it will become excellent
Create a PowerPoint, or email, or napkin illustration around your ideas and then record your voice
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Finding Collaboration Ideas. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In people science teams, have participants utilize the following six resources for obtaining fresh collaboration ideas; Mimic an existing industry/natural phenomenon; And don't just mimic, look at why they do things, how they do things; What exercises do they use to get started?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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