What’s in Your Toolkit
What’s in Your Toolkit is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- In People Science Teams, have participants take turns answering the question, "What's in your business
- Have a recorder write up what each person has available to them on a flipchart to share
- Use the "and then" technique where as each person shares, another person can say "and then" and
- augment a skill of their own that could compliment or add another aspect of delivery with the combined skills to create a collective "business toolkit" for the team Either share with the group or post the flipcharts around the room for everyone to peruse at their leisure
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Prompts to use +
In People Science Teams, have participants take turns answering the question, "What's in your business
Have a recorder write up what each person has available to them on a flipchart to share
Use the "and then" technique where as each person shares, another person can say "and then" and
augment a skill of their own that could compliment or add another aspect of delivery with the combined skills to create a collective "business toolkit" for the team Either share with the group or post the flipcharts around the room for everyone to peruse at their leisure
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: What’s in Your Toolkit. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In People Science Teams, have participants take turns answering the question, "What's in your business; Have a recorder write up what each person has available to them on a flipchart to share; Use the "and then" technique where as each person shares, another person can say "and then" and; augment a skill of their own that could compliment or add another aspect of delivery with the combined skills to create a collective "business toolkit" for the team Either share with the group or post the flipcharts around the room for everyone to peruse at their leisure. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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