Place Your Bets
Place Your Bets 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
- who will have an excuse to leave
- Don't let the teams tell the other teams what their bets are until the end
- Place Your Bets Timing 5 15 minutes, Multiple hours/days Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Put a fun spin on the event by putting your "money" where your mouth is!
- Logistics Have available some kind of "currency" to bet with.
- play money with the main sponsor's picture on it...
- Have prizes at the end that the "winner" can "buy" with his gambling winnings..
- 305 Cool Possibilities/Options If your teams have specific work goals, bet on what you think your team will be able to achieve.
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who will have an excuse to leave
Don't let the teams tell the other teams what their bets are until the end
Place Your Bets Timing 5 15 minutes, Multiple hours/days Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Put a fun spin on the event by putting your "money" where your mouth is!
Logistics Have available some kind of "currency" to bet with.
play money with the main sponsor's picture on it...
Have prizes at the end that the "winner" can "buy" with his gambling winnings..
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Place Your Bets. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: who will have an excuse to leave; Don't let the teams tell the other teams what their bets are until the end; Place Your Bets Timing 5 15 minutes, Multiple hours/days Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Put a fun spin on the event by putting your "money" where your mouth is!; Logistics Have available some kind of "currency" to bet with.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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