Five Ideas
Five Ideas is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- All methods All authors IAF Library Library Five ideas 228 173 Five Ideas is an activity that encourages participants to go beyond what is good for their team or their department and work on cooperatively achieving common goals.
- Teambuilding activities create high-performance teams whose members are extremely loyal to each other and to their team.
- CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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All methods All authors IAF Library Library Five ideas 228 173 Five Ideas is an activity that encourages participants to go beyond what is good for their team or their department and work on cooperatively achieving common goals.
Teambuilding activities create high-performance teams whose members are extremely loyal to each other and to their team.
CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Five Ideas. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: All methods All authors IAF Library Library Five ideas 228 173 Five Ideas is an activity that encourages participants to go beyond what is good for their team or their department and work on cooperatively achieving common goals.; Teambuilding activities create high-performance teams whose members are extremely loyal to each other and to their team.; CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from The Thiagi Group; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including The Thiagi Group, 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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