Raise Your Hand…and then again…
Raise Your Hand…and then again… is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Ask participants to raise their hands
- Look at their hands and ask them to raise them higher
- Ask the group what happens when you ask 5 year old to raise their hands
- Discuss the natural tendency for people to not give it their all or fully commit
- Share and discuss any other insights
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Prompts to use +
Ask participants to raise their hands
Look at their hands and ask them to raise them higher
Ask the group what happens when you ask 5 year old to raise their hands
Discuss the natural tendency for people to not give it their all or fully commit
Share and discuss any other insights
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Raise Your Hand…and then again…. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask participants to raise their hands; Look at their hands and ask them to raise them higher; Ask the group what happens when you ask 5 year old to raise their hands; Discuss the natural tendency for people to not give it their all or fully commit. 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.