Passing Notecards
Passing Notecards is a prompted conversation exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Prepare a stack of notecards with company or community-wide questions seeking answers to specific
- In silence, participants pass around the cards and write down answers
- people if the participants start to experiment
- Passing Notecards Timing 5 15 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Use the theory behind crowdsourcing to get answers to pressing questions efficiently and accurately.
- Process Prepare a stack of notecards with company or community-wide questions seeking answers to specific.
- people if the participants start to experiment Debrief how quickly answers to the questions were attained..
- The goal is to get as many answers as possible and connecting people to the right answer as quickly as possible.
- By aggregating everything onto one card quickly, the correct answer can be validated efficiently and accurately.
- Cool Possibilities/Options For large groups, split the group in two.
- Have one team pass cards around as noted in the original.
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Prompts to use +
Prepare a stack of notecards with company or community-wide questions seeking answers to specific
In silence, participants pass around the cards and write down answers
people if the participants start to experiment
Passing Notecards Timing 5 15 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Use the theory behind crowdsourcing to get answers to pressing questions efficiently and accurately.
Process Prepare a stack of notecards with company or community-wide questions seeking answers to specific.
people if the participants start to experiment Debrief how quickly answers to the questions were attained..
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Passing Notecards. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Prepare a stack of notecards with company or community-wide questions seeking answers to specific; In silence, participants pass around the cards and write down answers; people if the participants start to experiment; Passing Notecards Timing 5 15 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Use the theory behind crowdsourcing to get answers to pressing questions efficiently and accurately.. 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 Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
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