HELLO!
HELLO! is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Presenting Results. After 3 minutes, announce the start of the show-and-tell period. Call on teams in a random order and give each team a minute to make its presentation.
- 4 2 Duration: Any Participants: Any by Erica Marx for Erica Marx Coaching Use Method Goal warm up group to each other experience the power of acknowledgements, hellos, & goodbyes Instructions Stand in circle Round 1 - Hello!
- In order of priority, here is a sample list for a workshop on simulation games: participants' needs, participants' jobs, simulation gaming experience, attitude toward simulation gaming, reason for attending the workshop, and preferred mode of learning.
- Ask the teams to retire to convenient corners and spend 3 minutes devising a strategy for efficiently collecting the information from all
- Ask the teams to retire to convenient corners and spend 3 minutes devising a strategy for efficiently collecting the information from all participants.
- Warn everyone that the total time for collecting all the data will be only 3 minutes.
- Ask the teams to collect the data (using whatever strategies they devised earlier) within the next 3 mi
- 4 2 Duration: Any Participants: Any by Erica Marx for Erica Marx Coaching Use Method Goal warm up group to each other experience the power of acknowledgements, hellos, & goodbyes Instructions Stand in circle Round 1
- CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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Prompts to use +
Presenting Results. After 3 minutes, announce the start of the show-and-tell period. Call on teams in a random order and give each team a minute to make its presentation.
4 2 Duration: Any Participants: Any by Erica Marx for Erica Marx Coaching Use Method Goal warm up group to each other experience the power of acknowledgements, hellos, & goodbyes Instructions Stand in circle Round 1 - Hello!
In order of priority, here is a sample list for a workshop on simulation games: participants' needs, participants' jobs, simulation gaming experience, attitude toward simulation gaming, reason for attending the workshop, and preferred mode of learning.
Ask the teams to retire to convenient corners and spend 3 minutes devising a strategy for efficiently collecting the information from all
Ask the teams to retire to convenient corners and spend 3 minutes devising a strategy for efficiently collecting the information from all participants.
Warn everyone that the total time for collecting all the data will be only 3 minutes.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: HELLO!. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Presenting Results. After 3 minutes, announce the start of the show-and-tell period. Call on teams in a random order and give each team a minute to make its presentation.; 4 2 Duration: Any Participants: Any by Erica Marx for Erica Marx Coaching Use Method Goal warm up group to each other experience the power of acknowledgements, hellos, & goodbyes Instructions Stand in circle Round 1 - Hello!; In order of priority, here is a sample list for a workshop on simulation games: participants' needs, participants' jobs, simulation gaming experience, attitude toward simulation gaming, reason for attending the workshop, and preferred mode of learning.; Ask the teams to retire to convenient corners and spend 3 minutes devising a strategy for efficiently collecting the information from all. 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 The Thiagi Group; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including The Thiagi Group, SessionLab.)
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