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TIME VALUE

TIME VALUE is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In personSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Four or five flip charts with felt-tipped markers
  2. This activity used several time-management techniques. Can you figure out what they were?
  3. Enroll a few of your friends and tell them that all they have to do is to listen to half-a-dozen ideas and decide which one is best and which one is the most unique.
  4. Organize the participants into three to five teams, each with not more than seven members.
  5. Ask each team to stan
  6. Ask each team to stand by a flip chart.
  7. Make sure that the teams have plenty of markers.
  8. Tell the teams that they have 5 minutes to brainstorm alternative responses to this question: > You have $5 to spend....
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Prompts to use +

Enroll a few of your friends and tell them that all they have to do is to listen to half-a-dozen ideas and decide which one is best and which one is the most unique.

Organize the participants into three to five teams, each with not more than seven members.

Ask each team to stan

Ask each team to stand by a flip chart.

Make sure that the teams have plenty of markers.

Tell the teams that they have 5 minutes to brainstorm alternative responses to this question: > You have $5 to spend....

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: TIME VALUE. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Enroll a few of your friends and tell them that all they have to do is to listen to half-a-dozen ideas and decide which one is best and which one is the most unique.; Organize the participants into three to five teams, each with not more than seven members.; Ask each team to stan; Ask each team to stand by a flip chart.. 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.
  • 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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