What Are You Bringing to the Meeting?
What Are You Bringing to the Meeting? is an arrival check-in exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- 6 Debrief
- From Teampedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives Objectives Ice-breaking; introductions; check-in.
- Each will also be able to let go of distractions from their own lives during the meeting/project.
- Group Size Small Materials none Set Up Be in circle or otherwise arranged so each person can see each other.
- Ask people to take a few moments to "check-in" with themselves: How is their energy?
- What have they been involved with that day?
- 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives
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From Teampedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives Objectives Ice-breaking; introductions; check-in.
Each will also be able to let go of distractions from their own lives during the meeting/project.
Group Size Small Materials none Set Up Be in circle or otherwise arranged so each person can see each other.
Ask people to take a few moments to "check-in" with themselves: How is their energy?
What have they been involved with that day?
1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: What Are You Bringing to the Meeting?. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: From Teampedia Jump to: navigation, search Contents 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives Objectives Ice-breaking; introductions; check-in.; Each will also be able to let go of distractions from their own lives during the meeting/project.; Group Size Small Materials none Set Up Be in circle or otherwise arranged so each person can see each other.; Ask people to take a few moments to "check-in" with themselves: How is their energy?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The exercise appears across 2 observed source organizations in the current corpus. (2 sources observed, including Teampedia, SessionLab.)
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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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