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Re: The Group Share-Out


 

Very interesting topic, thank you for raising it Whitney. I would love to hear more responses as I also struggle with this.?

One site I like is which has many, many articles about the art of reviewing. There's no simple answer provided, and the focus is more on reviewing experiential learning, but this article on avoiding cliches has helped me reflect on the importance of phrasing the question well:?

A few tactics I have used include:?
?- Giving a sentence starter vs. question ("The biggest aha for me was...")?
?- Having them sum up in chat, similar to the suggestion to capture in a powerpoint?
?- Letting them brag on each other ("did someone in your group have a great solution that stuck with you?") this solves the social pressure of people not wanting to share their own cool idea or win, of course it's important that the thing being shared is positive & not vulnerable.?

The other reflections are encouraging me to consider whether the share-out is truly critical, though.?

Nicole

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 1:05 AM Andrea Gewessler <andrea@...> wrote:

I think as this was actually an evaluation of the session, my own feeling, rightly or wrongly, is that :

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  • Participants don¡¯t care about hearing about the evaluation of our session
  • The questions were skewed towards the negative ¨C 3 even better ifs, 2 don¡¯t like, 1 like ¨C I would have removed the numbers and maybe done it with software such as PollEverywhere or
  • I usually prefer to end on a positive note such as max 3 words how today was for you. Or even just one word.
  • Generally, group shares I assume you are talking online: I have successfully used fishbowl conversations to bring back the different strands of conversation in groups, yes, using the whiteboard and a virtual gallery walk, or time limits on feedback ¨C 1 minute per group with the clock ticking.

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You probably do all of this already. Everybody here is so experienced.

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By the way my platform of choice is now Welo Space. It¡¯s superb.

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Andrea

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Andrea Gewessler

Change that Matters Ltd

Mobile ¨C 0044 796 396 0194

Office ¨C 0044 20 8776 9111

Skype ¨C Andrea.Gewessler

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From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Linda Baker <lindasbaker@...>
Reply to: <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 20 May 2021 at 02:35
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [f4c-response] The Group Share-Out

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I feel your pain. We often ditch the share out entirely by having the breakout groups take notes in a shared PowerPoint deck (each group gets one slide that has the prompt on the top) and then allowing time for everyone to do a gallery walk, and then share their key observation and one question in the chat. Another option is to provide a strict template for the share-out, where people write down on a piece of paper the answer to a question or fill in a blank, and then they read out loud what they wrote on the paper.

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Will be curious what others do!

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of whitney@... <whitney@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 4:41 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [f4c-response] The Group Share-Out

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Hello! A team member of mine posed the question below, and I thought this group might have some ideas. Thanks in advance!

Would love to tap into the collective brain power of this group around a topic that I have been thinking a lot about lately....?the group share-out.Context: group share-outs after breakout/ small group work seem to provide little value and fail to even keep the attention of the groups listening. I have attempted to make really pointed instructions for what to share out (ex. Friday I asked a group to do 1-2-3, share 1 thing they liked, 2 things they did not like, and 3 suggestions or questions) in an attempt to make these more meaningful and concise. Even with these types of instruction people succumb to the typical rambling summary.In past roles, I have simply skipped the share-out completely, but doing so can have social consequences in a group such as feelings of lack of transparency, or feelings like the group discussion wasn't valued, etc.How can we make the group-share out more engaging and purposeful?

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