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Relationship Mapping

Post-It People Science Teams

Post-It People Science Teams is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. The goal of this exercise is to create a human algorithm for optimized teams with the option to do it live in front of the participants
  2. Create the template you will follow for each post-it
  3. As the facilitator of this group, you must decide on this template BEFORE you coach your participants &RORU Department
  4. Or you can have participants choose their own color based on their favorite color, their mood, personality and more
  5. Of course, define the tears based on your group's population - if you have a group all collocated in one state, base your tears on city, or regions within a city
  6. Use the simple icon set below or choose your own, but the intent is still the same allow people to signal their personal interests
  7. Book = indoor activities, lives to read, knit
  8. Ball = anything sports Bonus if people draw their favorite mascot
  9. Choose a letter that starts a word or sentence about something incredibly meaningful for the participant
  10. It could also be the start of the name of their first crush or first company that they worked for that they could tell a story
Live facilitator

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Prompts to use +

The goal of this exercise is to create a human algorithm for optimized teams with the option to do it live in front of the participants

Create the template you will follow for each post-it

As the facilitator of this group, you must decide on this template BEFORE you coach your participants &RORU Department

Or you can have participants choose their own color based on their favorite color, their mood, personality and more

Of course, define the tears based on your group's population - if you have a group all collocated in one state, base your tears on city, or regions within a city

Use the simple icon set below or choose your own, but the intent is still the same allow people to signal their personal interests

Run this with your AI assistant +

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: Post-It People Science Teams. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: The goal of this exercise is to create a human algorithm for optimized teams with the option to do it live in front of the participants; Create the template you will follow for each post-it; As the facilitator of this group, you must decide on this template BEFORE you coach your participants &RORU Department; Or you can have participants choose their own color based on their favorite color, their mood, personality and more. 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 Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
  • What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
  • 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.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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