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Alexandre Plennevaux

Debriefing: To keep / To change

2 columns on a wall, black board or white board. one with Header "To Keep", and the other "To Change".

Distribute post-its and markers.

Ask everyone to take 10 minutes to think about today, and identify What was to keep / To change ?? As many post-its as items.

Then sharing, one by one, explaining when necessary. Celebrate the "to keep", and

For the "what's to change", see if the group can commit to a solution for the next day.


CLAIRE BRUEL

Assign roles in a meeting

You assign some predefined roles to the meeting participants that will support the meeting.

Collaboration Tools

If you use Google Documents (slide, sheet, chat ...) on a shared drive, everybody has the same information at the same time. Modifications are easily notified for all. It then reduces massively the number of exchanges through emails. You just share the link. Use it as a very collaborative tool: ask people for their opinion by letting them to comment the document to really use the collective intelligence.

It is also a good way to capitalise knowledge and for example introduce a new team member. You can also check this Airbus Community: https://sites.google.com/airbus.com/collaborationmadeawesome/home?pli=1

Heike Roettgers

Touch Something Blue

Die Teilnehmer sollen auf Kommando Dinge berühren, die vorgegebene Anforderungen erfüllen, z. B. „Berühre etwas Blaues”, „Berühre etwas aus Holz”, „Berühre deine Zehen”. Die Komplexität kann schrittweise erhöht werden, z. B. „Berühre etwas, das dich zum Lachen bringt” oder „Berühre etwas, das dich inspiriert”.