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Gamestorming: Design your meetings like you design your apps

Gamestorming: Design your meetings like you design your apps

List of all games

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List of all games

Each of the "games" in the Open, Explore and Close folders can be used to run better meetings (read the What do you need to do? column to find the game for your team's scenario). Share this doc with your team so you can do the exercises collaboratively.

Type

Game to Play

What do you need to do?

Meeting Prep

Before the meeting starts...

I need to create a project kickoff meeting

Topic Scheduling

I need to create get agenda topics from my team

Open

Broaden your view.

My team needs to do a brainstorm

My team needs to identify stakeholders

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Understanding Chain

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My team needs to identify the right questions to ask our stakeholders for taking action

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Heuristic Ideation Technique

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My team needs to generate new ideas based on existing ideas

I need to get a quick pulse check from everyone in the room about a topic

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Sentence Starters

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My team wants to leave structured feedback via sentence starters.

Explore

Illuminate and prioritize your team's ideas.

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My team needs to think about future opportunities and potential external threats

3-12-3 Brainstorm

I need to do a timed brainstorming session concluding with presentations

We need to sort and organize ideas from a brainstorm into proper categories

Question Moderator

I need to crowdsource questions from my team to answer in a townhall or meeting

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My team needs a way to estimate the perceived effort of a task or project.

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Point Distribution Exercise

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My team needs a flexible way to assign importance to varying priorities

Close

Move towards a conclusion or decision.

My team needs come to a solution from a brainstorm

Impact & Effort Matrix

My team needs to make a decision between different options

Start, Stop, Continue

My team needs to analyze the current situation and decide what to do more/less of

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100-Dollar Challenge

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My team needs to decide which ideas to prioritize

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My team needs to decide whether ideas are new, useful, or feasible

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Instant-Runoff (Ranked Choice) Voting

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My team needs a way to eliminate ideas using the instant-runoff voting method

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Unbiased Voting

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My team needs a way to vote on ideas and not be influenced by group think

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