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General Collaboration Exercise ยท Context Sharing

Social Capital Sentence

Identify and share the social capital your team has to offer in a way that can be built into the rest of the gathering/project. This can be done by creating ultra-simple sentences

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Pairs, Small group (4-8), TriadsGROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
Medium cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Personalization This context sharing exercise strengthens Personalization, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Utilize People Science data to put people in pairs or triads if no People Science, encourage people to pair
  2. up with people they don't know Ideally, pass out the second page about Social Capital for each person to read
  3. Ask each person to write a one to four sentences that cover their career, personal life or a mixture
  4. NOT a paragraph or a LinkedIn/cover page style summary!
  5. Their colleagues ask insightful questions about
  6. their sentences with the aim of finding connection points Document this information if possible and pass to Knowledge Weaver
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Prompts to use +

Utilize People Science data to put people in pairs or triads if no People Science, encourage people to pair

up with people they don't know Ideally, pass out the second page about Social Capital for each person to read

Ask each person to write a one to four sentences that cover their career, personal life or a mixture

Their colleagues ask insightful questions about

their sentences with the aim of finding connection points Document this information if possible and pass to Knowledge Weaver

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Social Capital Sentence. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Utilize People Science data to put people in pairs or triads if no People Science, encourage people to pair; up with people they don't know Ideally, pass out the second page about Social Capital for each person to read; Ask each person to write a one to four sentences that cover their career, personal life or a mixture; Their colleagues ask insightful questions about. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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