Build a Deck

Start from a blank page or bring the deck you already have. Either way it takes minutes, not an afternoon.

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  Build one from scratch

  A name, a slide, a word cloud, and the room joins. About a minute.

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  Leading Through Change

  Leadership offsite, day one

  Leading Through Change · Leadership offsite, day one

  Where we start

  From this week's pre-work

  48

  leaders in the room

  3

  changes landing this year

  1

  question we keep hearing

  Leading Through Change · Leadership offsite, day one

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  People don't resist change. They resist being left out of it.

  A plant manager, on the last reorganization

  Leading Through Change · Leadership offsite, day one

  Your first thirty days

  • Say what is changing, and what is not
  • Ask before you announce
  • Check in before you check up

  

  Bring your own deck

  Your slides come in as a PDF, and the engagements go between them.

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Add interactivity

Keep them on their phones to keep them off their phones. When the phone is how people answer, play and talk, it stops being the distraction, and there’s a lot less quiet email-checking going on under the table.

Ask the room

Everyone answers at once, and the answers become one picture on the big screen.

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  Word cloud

  A word or two from everyone, and the room's answer draws itself.

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  Picture cloud

  A word cloud drawn over a picture you choose, so the room's words and your image share one screen.

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  Open text and Summarize

  Everybody writes, and the wall fills up fast.

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  What, So What, Now What

  A debrief in three rounds: what they saw, what it means, and what they will do.

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  Multiple choice

  A question with a few answers to pick from, and the room's bars fill live.

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  Percentage split

  Divide a hundred percent your own way.

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  This or That

  Commit to a guess, then find out.

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  Five Finger Shoot

  Everybody answers at the exact same moment.

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  Emoji Pulse

  A few big pictures and one tap. The fastest thing here to answer.

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  Capture

  Each table photographs its flip chart, and every chart is on the big screen at once.

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  Ranked order

  Put your top three in order.

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  Rating scale

  A few statements, and everyone says how true each one is for them.

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  Continuum set

  A few pairs of opposites. Everyone places themselves on each one, and gets their own line across the set.

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  2x2 grid

  A few ideas placed against two axes, like effort and impact, and the room's picture comes back.

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  Q and A

  The room asks, the room votes, the real question rises.

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  Card sorter

  A stack of cards, two piles, and a right answer for every card.

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  Wheel of questions

  Everyone spins, lands on a different question, and answers it.

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  Most Helpful

  The room says which of its own ideas actually helped.

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  Write, read out, then rank

  Everybody writes alone before anybody speaks.

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  Dot vote

  Five dots each, spent however you want.

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  Flashcards

  Two-sided cards they flip, check, and mark themselves on.

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  Said, Meant, Heard

  A line people say at work, and what's really underneath it.

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  Before and After

  The same checklist at the start of a program and again at the end, so you see what moved.

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  Interactive Video

  A clip on the big screen, and the room taps the moment they see it.

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Get them talking

Pairs, groups and tables, sorted by the room's own answers, talking to each other instead of to you.

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  Applause

  The whole room says thank you at once.

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  Find Your Match

  The room pairs itself off on what people actually said.

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  Small Talks

  The room sorts itself, then talks to itself.

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  Tabletop

  Every table talks, and every table is heard.

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  Even Split

  Even teams in one press.

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  Conversation Roulette

  Nobody picks anything. The room is shuffled.

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  Common Ground

  Pick four, and meet somebody who shares one.

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  Take the Floor

  One person does the thing, the room watches, and what they saw goes to that person.

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  What I Noticed

  Everybody in the group writes one thing to everybody else.

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Think it through

Slower written work, a question at a time, some of it for nobody's eyes but their own.

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  Guided prep

  A quiet page of questions on each phone, and everyone leaves with a written plan only they can read.

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  Group Reflections

  Each group answers a few open questions about how it works, in its own words, for the room to hear.

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Games

The whole room plays on their own phones, and most of these run on whatever you taught that morning.

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  Closest Without Going Over

  Guess the number. Closest without going over wins.

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  Two Truths

  Two of these are true. Can the room spot the one that isn't?

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  Lightning Tap

  One button. The fastest thumb in the room wins.

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  Tug of War

  Every right answer pulls the rope for your team.

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  Beat the Last Room

  The whole room chases the last group's score.

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  Survey Says

  Guess what the room said, and flip the board.

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  Line Up

  One card each. Get the room in order, no talking.

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  Fill the Board

  The whole room against the clock, on one board.

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  Count to Ten

  Ten numbers, one tap each, and not a word.

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  Pixel Reveal

  Name the picture before the tiles are gone.

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  Sketch It

  One phone draws, and the whole room guesses.

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  One in Common

  Every card shares one picture with the screen.

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Carry the point

The parts of a session that land a message, and the page everyone takes home.

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  Carousel

  A set of pictures everyone browses on their own phone.

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  Card deck

  A short stack of principles or steps they swipe through at their own pace.

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  Break

  A countdown the whole room can see, on the big screen and on every phone.

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  Reveal

  Lines that arrive one press at a time, so the room reads the one you're talking about.

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  Take it with you

  Each person leaves with their own page of the day, and you leave with a report to share.

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