TGL: October 2010
TGL: October 2010 is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- (3 minutes) | Give the list of questions to each informant. Ask informants to get ready for the interviews. | Informants: Study the questions. Prepare suitable answers based on your personal experience and expertise.
- (5 minutes) | Send an informant to each team. Keep time. | Interview the expert. Take notes on the informant's responses to the two questions.
- (5 minutes) | Invite team members (and informants) to review the guidelines. | Walk around the room and review the guidelines.
- Follow up. | Type up all the guidelines and send them to the participants and the informants. Upload the guidelines to a web page. | Review the guidelines.
- Distribute instruction sheets to different teams. Include a list of five questions with two questions checked.
- Give the list of questions to each informant. Ask informants to get ready for the interviews.
- Informants: Study the questions. Prepare suitable answers based on your personal experience and expertise.
- Send an informant to each team. Keep time.
- Interview the expert. Take notes on the informant's responses to the two questions.
- Interview the other informants using the same two questions.
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Prompts to use +
(3 minutes) | Give the list of questions to each informant. Ask informants to get ready for the interviews. | Informants: Study the questions. Prepare suitable answers based on your personal experience and expertise.
(5 minutes) | Send an informant to each team. Keep time. | Interview the expert. Take notes on the informant's responses to the two questions.
(5 minutes) | Invite team members (and informants) to review the guidelines. | Walk around the room and review the guidelines.
Distribute instruction sheets to different teams. Include a list of five questions with two questions checked.
Give the list of questions to each informant. Ask informants to get ready for the interviews.
Informants: Study the questions. Prepare suitable answers based on your personal experience and expertise.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: TGL: October 2010. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: (3 minutes) | Give the list of questions to each informant. Ask informants to get ready for the interviews. | Informants: Study the questions. Prepare suitable answers based on your personal experience and expertise.; (5 minutes) | Send an informant to each team. Keep time. | Interview the expert. Take notes on the informant's responses to the two questions.; (5 minutes) | Invite team members (and informants) to review the guidelines. | Walk around the room and review the guidelines.; Distribute instruction sheets to different teams. Include a list of five questions with two questions checked.. 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 The Thiagi Group; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including The Thiagi Group.)
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- 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.
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