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Absolutely impressed with every video you'll share... forget abt the technique (it's hands down always great), just the intent behind it is amazing... SHARING KNOWLEDGE... you'll are awesome!!!! I use this technique at work and i call it the Design Jam... ;) coz most of the time we'll be solving design problems... :)
Love this. Big fan of your vids - both the content and delivery. You're super bright, likeable and authentic. So many content creators are bright but agonising to watch because they try too hard. You've found magic.
This is very inspiring! I tried this yesterday with my team yesterday. As we all do remote work, so we used Figma to simulate the whole process. First, I created some sticky note templates, let the teammates create an empty page to write things on the notes. The Next step, the facilitator, which is me myself, collect all the notes and put them on the main page. (we call it brainstorm lobby). Now, the funny part is to put dots on the notes. We end up with accidentally someone else's dot, kinda messy but finally, it turned out well! Though it took us 40 minutes to complete the first session. Guess next time we can do better than this.
That's amazing!!! I have a very very shy class, I tried to encourage them in a debate before and it was a failure, they work much better in non-spoken tasks. I will definitely try this next time.
Great stuff. What makes these work best is a great cohesive culture. IE having fun working together or social times together etc. Because if the culture is quicksand, any collob session only highlights that. Im a HUGE fan of quick and sharp energetic meetings that don't last an hour. So much more gets done in very little time. Keep up the great work.
I am in love with this note and vote concept! It's stupid simple, you think that people would be using it more. I am a big fan of these workshop videos and really enjoy the case studies!
I was looking for more videos about this and I recently made a comment of brainstorming but apparently, u already made it hahaha I came from this video "What Is Design Thinking? An Overview (2020)"
I like to add the task of each person reading out their ideas as they post them. If the team has the instruction to cluster like ideas as they post, it forces them to listen to the other ideas rather than just waiting for their turn to speak. Voting can then be done by cluster rather than individual post-it. Additionally, the reading out loud of ideas could stimulate other ideas (or "yes ands" related to an existing idea) and these could then be added to the wall. My 2c :)
@@AJSmart not much longer than the group having to read/decipher/understand the written post-its. And it creates a bit more excitement about the process and the ideas. If you extend the workshop to 30mins, you could do a formal "yes and" exercise for the top 3 ideas. Post the 3 ideas at the top of the board and then everyone adds new elements to the idea (1 per post-it), also reading out loud to the group.
I rally like the concept of working alone together. Eliminating pointless and endless discussions is key. You talked about the next step ( executing) and it would be awesome if you do the video for that workshop. 🙂🙂
This session was incredibly relatable and easy to understand ❤️ Question: Is it beneficial to include the client in brainstorming sessions? Could you also share the pros and cons of having the client participate?
So I am a visionary if nothing else! 😁 I have been into astrology for over 25 years though most parts all too casually. Not entirely proficient in many things specifically. But I'm fascinated by the concept of brainstorming and I've got the heart of a creator. And I think I would be a polymath if I tried a lot harder! As it stands I've just got a lot of eccentric hobbies! 😂😂 But astrology is very salient to me therefore my belief in it is absolute and that gives me super power in and of itself but that's another story! I think astrology is a noble pursuit and I believe it can help people in profound ways! I mean to find new ways to help people with life with it! And I'm convinced I'm on to something big! Astrology is just stupid-crazy popular and it's star is only on the rise, pun intended! 🙄 Life is full of fate and astrology is the ultimate causality. All other cause and effect fall in line behind the when? and where? of what's going on in the heavens! it's just something that I've seen evidenced too many times and for too long to have need to debate it with myself any longer. I make no pretense about my command of all the knowledge of it, or lack thereof! But I pal around with a lot of astrologers online! And I mean to form a guild of them to brainstorm creative and dynamic and new ways to use it! Lots of people just love it to death and I'm convinced that I can help myself and others find gainful employment all while helping people along the way! I'm very impulsive however--the fact that you mentioned that you respond to all your messages capture my imagination so fast that I post the video before even watching it too test that out! 😂😂😂 I will continue on to the video now! And happy New year's! I'm very much hoping this one will be a productive one!
Great job, the post'n'vote is a great alternative to endless circular misaligned discussion, plus it quickly aligns people with distributed embarrassingly parallel efficiency. My only question, how best to do it in ms-teams, google-meetings, zoom, etc.
Don't think it would be better to cluster the ideas before voting? to make it easier and avoid diluting votes in good ideas that are duplicated . Thanks for the video )
Hey, that’s so cool! I actually used a brainstorming session that I „created“ in a project, based on the Sprint. I did exactly what you are presenting in this video, only, as a facilitator, I assigned 3 dots to each participant and picked only the first 3 that had the most votes. It was so easy and fast to make decisions! We decided like this on name, logo design, navigation, layout (it was a project in the Umschulung, we had to make a concept for a shopping center from zero)! This video is validating my method, great thing! 🤗
I like the recommendation of capturing ideas in a visual way and the dot voting to prioritise. However for me this structure is missing the core element of brainstorming - collaboration. Brainstorming meant to be a collaborative exercise that allows the participants to talk and build on each others ideas and inspires someone to come up with a truly new amazing insight that came from hearing what everyone else was saying earlier. This is how you end up with whole being greater than sum of the parts. I can easily see small adjustments to the meeting structure described in this video to make it collaborative. I would be interested to hear your views on this concern?
You should share what you think your worst ideas are first, and make sure they are crazy and ridiculous, as an opener. It relaxes the team, they get a good laugh, and people can see that everyone can have some bad or crazy ideas. It might be more efficient in new teams as just an ice breaker...
I have a few questions: 1-) When people are sticking their own posts, all the participants are watching he(her) doing it? In this case, all participants will know which idea is from. This will kinda influence the result s. Or is it done ins a way participants cants see it? ==> Maybe turning the flipchart can partially solve this. 2-) When goes to voting I guess that the follow the crowd effect can happen.When people tend to choose the winner to follow. So hugely interfering on clear results. ===> Maybe giving each post-it a code (number), and each voter notes for himself on a papel the ideas numbers they liked the most and the number of its 10 votes desired for each. And after that the facilitator can put on board the voting results. Does that above makes any sense or have any value?
When it's time to put the stickies on the board, just ask participants to first put them on the table in a pile. Then the facilitator in front of the group mixes them up. Everybody should use the same colour pens so they can't identify one particular person's notes.
How about 'how would a think tank of entrepreneurial astrologers come together to figure out dynamic new ways to use astrology to provide services to help people in their day-to-day lives? Or indeed create new forms of astrology?' I am a passionate astrology enthusiast/aspirinng artist/astrologer/entrepreneur 😁
I like this. The only thing I wonder about is it seems to leave out ideas that came from other people's ideas. What do you do if people have more ideas that come up from reading the sticks?
I always struggle with these short timings. I've done plenty of lightning decision jam and had to increase the timings a lot. According to this video every participant should understand 50 ideas, compare them to her 10 ideas, and do all this in 180 seconds. Not realistic. I try to overcome this by reading out loud the sticky notes as the facilitator, but reading also takes a lot of time. I ask them to evaluate the ideas in their heads while I'm reading, but i haven't found the ultimate solution yet.
Hey Istvan, great to hear you’re LDJ’ing! With this exercise you can do with any sized group, each member only picks their ten best ideas, then of those, people vote on the best, you can remove the low voted dots and save then for later if you want, and only focus on the top voted ideas! You don’t need to understand ever idea, just approach the ones the group have consensus on!
I also had to increase a lot of timing to LDJs. On their mural template it says 45 minutes. Probably that is the time needed with their especialized team. When I do with clients I need from 1 hour to 1.5 hour, as I need to let them get used to the tool and work method. 1.5 hour it's a long time if compared to the 45 minutes standard, but clients are still happy with the results, so that's ok for me.
Really like the exercise and these kind of practical workshop activity vids are great. Question - with a less creative group, do you think cutting step 2 down to having them only choose their top 3-5 ideas would work?
This is a regular occurrence with groups that are hesitant to just throw ideas out there. Students, faculty member, administrators, ... anyone new to this way of working. Picking some number that’s still a stretch, but not overwhelming to the middle of the pack seems like a great way to modify this technique and make it more accessible to a less adventurous crowd. AND it would move their tolerance up a notch, especially if they saved a ton of time _and_ got good ideas to consider _and_ developed some consensus.
@AJ&Smart I love this process and I have stared to use this via a Miro board. Two questions to help improve my process. When voting how many votes per participant is the right amount? is there a ratio you use. Too few may not yeild enough results, too many may get too many and take a lot longer. Question two. Instead of dots, in Miro is it better to use the vote feature? I got feedback from a participant that voting annonymously would prevent the influence of seeing something getting a lot of votes. What do you think about that?
Enjoyed this video. I need ways to apply something like this when brainstorming creative ideas for ads. Do you have any vids geared toward that topic? Something that will help us not get bogged down with tons of ideas that really dont fit the brand. The team I am on seem to take hours to come up with concepts, and I know we can run these meetings better. I welcome any suggestions. Thanks!
Absolutely, I found a way to leverage Trello for our team to run this same play. Set up the Trello board with volume for activity’s and have the team use cards as sticky’s
Thanks for another great workshop vid. This covers the "What" problem solving. I assume the execution video you mention at the end will cover the "How"? Would that be another how might we exercise?
Nice ideas! Anything magical about 10 ideas? For a group of 5 or 6 or more, that could be a lot to go through. Why not go with top 5 or even 3 to start with so people have to filter a tiny bit before the group engages?
Cool technique. What is your experience with so many post its to vote on? Isn´t 3 minutes a bit tight? What do you think of "burning" a percentage of the notes before the actual voting happens?
Thank you so much, I've really like this video, It's really help me. I'm already liked, subscribed and bell all alerts. please do more video like this.
Thanks a lot for this video and all the others. There is one thing, I would like to ask: you are always assuming, that participants understand what others have written on the sticky notes, which is not always the case, as I saw, when conducting workshops. How do you proceed, when that happens? (Going through all the sticky notes together at least doubles the time of the exercise)
Hey David! Ideally all the notes remain anonymous, that's why it's important to stress that people try to communicate their ideas clearly - and maybe give them a few examples (dos and don'ts). However, of course it's fine to ask people to explain if something seems interesting but unclear. It's also fine to skip them if the facilitator thinks other stickies communicate the same, or a similar idea in a better way. Sometimes it's up to the facilitator to make a call how important it is to put the spotlight on an idea As a facilitator, you should also take a look around what everyone is working on, and if some participants struggle to communicate their ideas in a way that's understandable to others without presenting them, remind everyone of dos and don'ts, best practices etc. (without specifically calling any participant out)
Great to see LDJ adapted for brainstorming meetings! How about a link to download a pdf with the timing and voting details and a link to this video and related videos.
Good point Toluwase, this is just a workshop to kick off and generate ideas though. As it only takes ten minutes, you can do multiple runs of the workshop to ideate for different themes / topics! Still probably saving time on an unstructured meeting!
Hey Jonathan, I have a very basic question here - while voting, don't you think people will be biased to the one sticky note that already has good amount of votes (might be a hindrance/influence on their)
How would you do this when doing a brainstorm online? Since there is (in my country at least) a rule now for not going to offices anymore but working from home. But we still want to do brainstorm sessions, and this idea sounds very handy! Any tips?
There will be many similar ideas on the board, doesn't it make sense to group the 60 "sticky notes" into themes? Like someone may write "BOOKS" and another "LIBRARY". Collectively they may have winning votes, but separately maybe not.
I was wondering this too. Maybe in the posting step, folks could call out duplications (match game!) and double up their sticky notes some way. Don’t want to get into a long categorization stage, but some simple clumping might be useful.
I agree. As a facilitator you can either cluster them yourself or get the group to cluster (which is also a great way for them to get more about the ideas into their heads than they would by just silently reading to themselves).
Thanks for the video :) wouldn't allowing to vote for your own ideas would bias the vote though? (some people are just more confident) I think voters should not vote for themselves.
Agree. I see zero disadvantages on not allowing to vote on own ideas, but a potentially severe problem if that would be allowed. Some personalities might be less open minded thus more likely to vote on own ideas. The ideas of the less open minded are equally important, but it's a mistake to allow their personality to expectedly create that voting problem.
Hi Jonathan, this is very cool! I discovered your channel when researching the design sprint framework, and I was wondering if you have any advice on using the note-and-vote method in a Scrum sprint planning/backlog refinement setting. As a project manager, I often find myself struggling with getting through a list of stories planned for these sessions because the team tends to get carried away by design and technical detail discussions. I want to try to implement this method and eliminate these painful discussions, but I'm not sure what should the team be voting for in this case. Should I ask everyone to think of 10 ways to implement a certain story/ address a requirement, and then vote? Also, no talking means no Q&A. What if people have questions about their teammates’ ideas and don't feel confident to cast their vote before those questions are answered? Sorry about the length of this comment. Thanks for making these videos!
Hi guys! Thank you for the tip on this exercise. Would this exercise work for example in a meeting to discuss different projects overview for the year? I couldn't figure out how this exercise would work, can you please advice?
Hey, interesting take on it, as it's an idea generation exercise yes you could, but we would advise then hosting more detailed workshops once initial overviews had been selected to work out specifics, perhaps an LDJ? th-cam.com/video/33hBnZzoFAg/w-d-xo.html
How do you generate ideas? Will you try the 10-For-10 exercise to cut through busy meetings? Let us know in the comments below!
Check out our latest productivity video here: th-cam.com/video/ny8YvdDmsFo/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely impressed with every video you'll share... forget abt the technique (it's hands down always great), just the intent behind it is amazing... SHARING KNOWLEDGE... you'll are awesome!!!!
I use this technique at work and i call it the Design Jam... ;) coz most of the time we'll be solving design problems... :)
@@sheebad Aww thanks Sheeba! Great to hear you're using these to effect too! Thanks for the kind words, more to come!
1-2-4-All is a common method I use for generating ideas with big groups. I like this one alot.
@@benmaclCan you clarify this method please?
Love this.
Big fan of your vids - both the content and delivery. You're super bright, likeable and authentic. So many content creators are bright but agonising to watch because they try too hard. You've found magic.
This is very inspiring! I tried this yesterday with my team yesterday. As we all do remote work, so we used Figma to simulate the whole process. First, I created some sticky note templates, let the teammates create an empty page to write things on the notes. The Next step, the facilitator, which is me myself, collect all the notes and put them on the main page. (we call it brainstorm lobby). Now, the funny part is to put dots on the notes. We end up with accidentally someone else's dot, kinda messy but finally, it turned out well! Though it took us 40 minutes to complete the first session. Guess next time we can do better than this.
That's amazing!!! I have a very very shy class, I tried to encourage them in a debate before and it was a failure, they work much better in non-spoken tasks. I will definitely try this next time.
love this type of hands-on video! Please continue making more.
Great stuff. What makes these work best is a great cohesive culture. IE having fun working together or social times together etc. Because if the culture is quicksand, any collob session only highlights that. Im a HUGE fan of quick and sharp energetic meetings that don't last an hour. So much more gets done in very little time. Keep up the great work.
GENIUS! Pure, simple, highly efficient, genius! I've SUBSCRIBED ALL! Thank you!
I love how Jonathan does presentations. He is one of my favorite. Your videos always help alot. Thank you for the video!
He's a born presenter!
I am in love with this note and vote concept! It's stupid simple, you think that people would be using it more. I am a big fan of these workshop videos and really enjoy the case studies!
Thanks Karlton! More workshops and case studies to come!
I was looking for more videos about this and I recently made a comment of brainstorming but apparently, u already made it hahaha I came from this video "What Is Design Thinking? An Overview (2020)"
Loved this approach mainly because people sometimes try to impose their ideas. It's an elegant way to deal with this problem.
Thank you formthis graet video , explain and ease of communication and information ❤
I just love the editing in these videos, hahaha.
Thanks, enjoy these focused short meeting ideas
This is brilliant ... thank you. Where do you have the videos on prioritizing and execution?
Great content. How would you do this in a Microsoft TEAMS meeting or any other remote option?
I like to add the task of each person reading out their ideas as they post them. If the team has the instruction to cluster like ideas as they post, it forces them to listen to the other ideas rather than just waiting for their turn to speak. Voting can then be done by cluster rather than individual post-it.
Additionally, the reading out loud of ideas could stimulate other ideas (or "yes ands" related to an existing idea) and these could then be added to the wall. My 2c :)
Hey Jen, that's a really nice addition! We like that! Does it take much longer for the presentations?
@@AJSmart not much longer than the group having to read/decipher/understand the written post-its. And it creates a bit more excitement about the process and the ideas.
If you extend the workshop to 30mins, you could do a formal "yes and" exercise for the top 3 ideas. Post the 3 ideas at the top of the board and then everyone adds new elements to the idea (1 per post-it), also reading out loud to the group.
I rally like the concept of working alone together. Eliminating pointless and endless discussions is key. You talked about the next step ( executing) and it would be awesome if you do the video for that workshop. 🙂🙂
Hey Gabriel! Thanks, it's a big concept here for sure! We'd be happy to do a short intro to it!
This session was incredibly relatable and easy to understand ❤️
Question: Is it beneficial to include the client in brainstorming sessions? Could you also share the pros and cons of having the client participate?
Love this!!!
So I am a visionary if nothing else! 😁 I have been into astrology for over 25 years though most parts all too casually. Not entirely proficient in many things specifically. But I'm fascinated by the concept of brainstorming and I've got the heart of a creator. And I think I would be a polymath if I tried a lot harder! As it stands I've just got a lot of eccentric hobbies! 😂😂 But astrology is very salient to me therefore my belief in it is absolute and that gives me super power in and of itself but that's another story! I think astrology is a noble pursuit and I believe it can help people in profound ways! I mean to find new ways to help people with life with it! And I'm convinced I'm on to something big!
Astrology is just stupid-crazy popular and it's star is only on the rise, pun intended! 🙄
Life is full of fate and astrology is the ultimate causality. All other cause and effect fall in line behind the when? and where? of what's going on in the heavens! it's just something that I've seen evidenced too many times and for too long to have need to debate it with myself any longer. I make no pretense about my command of all the knowledge of it, or lack thereof! But I pal around with a lot of astrologers online! And I mean to form a guild of them to brainstorm creative and dynamic and new ways to use it! Lots of people just love it to death and I'm convinced that I can help myself and others find gainful employment all while helping people along the way!
I'm very impulsive however--the fact that you mentioned that you respond to all your messages capture my imagination so fast that I post the video before even watching it too test that out! 😂😂😂 I will continue on to the video now! And happy New year's! I'm very much hoping this one will be a productive one!
This is a great video. I'm curious to know what are the other add on workshops to do in order to prioritize action and align on the work?
Great job, the post'n'vote is a great alternative to endless circular misaligned discussion, plus it quickly aligns people with distributed embarrassingly parallel efficiency. My only question, how best to do it in ms-teams, google-meetings, zoom, etc.
Loving the camera effects! thank you for making it so easy to follow!
Estoy agradecida con todas las noticias y mensajes positivos e inspirado, instructivo de gran calidad, bendiciones 🥰🙏
Don't think it would be better to cluster the ideas before voting? to make it easier and avoid diluting votes in good ideas that are duplicated . Thanks for the video )
Hey, that’s so cool! I actually used a brainstorming session that I „created“ in a project, based on the Sprint. I did exactly what you are presenting in this video, only, as a facilitator, I assigned 3 dots to each participant and picked only the first 3 that had the most votes. It was so easy and fast to make decisions! We decided like this on name, logo design, navigation, layout (it was a project in the Umschulung, we had to make a concept for a shopping center from zero)! This video is validating my method, great thing! 🤗
Hey Bianca! Amazing to hear! Great to see you're being much more focused with the voting too! How many people did you run it with though?
@@AJSmart we were 10 people. :)
Awesome video!! Congratulations!!
Amazing technique, I so appreciate your work
Very good. I am going to do it
Great explanation and walk-through!
Interesting video, where can I buy that timer?
Simple and AWESOME
I love this video for brainstorming.
I like the recommendation of capturing ideas in a visual way and the dot voting to prioritise. However for me this structure is missing the core element of brainstorming - collaboration. Brainstorming meant to be a collaborative exercise that allows the participants to talk and build on each others ideas and inspires someone to come up with a truly new amazing insight that came from hearing what everyone else was saying earlier. This is how you end up with whole being greater than sum of the parts. I can easily see small adjustments to the meeting structure described in this video to make it collaborative. I would be interested to hear your views on this concern?
very clear!! thank you
This was super helpful 💪🏾, can't wait to use this tactics to run a brainstorm session
Great to hear! Let us know how it goes!
Hey, tnx for the video. had a question: how many dots does the facilitator give to each member?
Hey guys. Niceee videos you hace in your channel, im a big fan 😍😍. But i have a question. What is the font you use in your logo? Plz
Love this. Quick, simple and effective! These videos are absolute gems!
Amazing Simon! Thanks a lot! Let us know if you implement this in your meetings!
You should share what you think your worst ideas are first, and make sure they are crazy and ridiculous, as an opener. It relaxes the team, they get a good laugh, and people can see that everyone can have some bad or crazy ideas. It might be more efficient in new teams as just an ice breaker...
Super duper helpful...Thanks
Gotto love that King flip chart🔥
Excellent video
Thank you !
You're welcome!
Thanks guys, very useful!
I have a few questions:
1-) When people are sticking their own posts, all the participants are watching he(her) doing it? In this case, all participants will know which idea is from. This will kinda influence the result s. Or is it done ins a way participants cants see it?
==> Maybe turning the flipchart can partially solve this.
2-) When goes to voting I guess that the follow the crowd effect can happen.When people tend to choose the winner to follow. So hugely interfering on clear results.
===> Maybe giving each post-it a code (number), and each voter notes for himself on a papel the ideas numbers they liked the most and the number of its 10 votes desired for each. And after that the facilitator can put on board the voting results.
Does that above makes any sense or have any value?
When it's time to put the stickies on the board, just ask participants to first put them on the table in a pile. Then the facilitator in front of the group mixes them up. Everybody should use the same colour pens so they can't identify one particular person's notes.
I love it! (Maybe it was a bit long video, but it's a great tool ... thank you! 🧡
Please help me some examples of brainstorming for my presentation
Very interested video
How about 'how would a think tank of entrepreneurial astrologers come together to figure out dynamic new ways to use astrology to provide services to help people in their day-to-day lives? Or indeed create new forms of astrology?'
I am a passionate astrology enthusiast/aspirinng artist/astrologer/entrepreneur 😁
Is it necessary to waste so much of post-its though? Kidding, this is really good brainstorming technique! Keep going! 💯
Raj Patil it’s a valid concern though, we use recycled post-its and recycle those ones too!
AJ&Smart That’s epic! ♻️
现在移动白板和玻璃白板都比较普遍了，为什么要用那么多便利贴呢？如果是收费的培训还好理解，内部培训没必要用那么多纸的
What workshops can we add onto this one to generate solutions?
Loved it! There are lot of ways but this one is just simple and productive. Thank you for sharing.
I like this. The only thing I wonder about is it seems to leave out ideas that came from other people's ideas. What do you do if people have more ideas that come up from reading the sticks?
I always struggle with these short timings. I've done plenty of lightning decision jam and had to increase the timings a lot. According to this video every participant should understand 50 ideas, compare them to her 10 ideas, and do all this in 180 seconds. Not realistic. I try to overcome this by reading out loud the sticky notes as the facilitator, but reading also takes a lot of time. I ask them to evaluate the ideas in their heads while I'm reading, but i haven't found the ultimate solution yet.
Hey Istvan, great to hear you’re LDJ’ing! With this exercise you can do with any sized group, each member only picks their ten best ideas, then of those, people vote on the best, you can remove the low voted dots and save then for later if you want, and only focus on the top voted ideas!
You don’t need to understand ever idea, just approach the ones the group have consensus on!
I also had to increase a lot of timing to LDJs. On their mural template it says 45 minutes. Probably that is the time needed with their especialized team. When I do with clients I need from 1 hour to 1.5 hour, as I need to let them get used to the tool and work method. 1.5 hour it's a long time if compared to the 45 minutes standard, but clients are still happy with the results, so that's ok for me.
Very good video. Any thought on number of meeting participants?
I assume 5-8 is would be optimal.
Tips for taking this into a virtual world? I love this method, but my team is now remote!
Is there a video that solves the HMW questions or discussions to solve the problem?
Do you have any advice for solo brainstorming for a creative project? (illustration / design / ...)
Hello. I really like this method. Do you think that reducing it to 5-for-5 in a bigger group of people (16) would have negative effect on results?
Really like the exercise and these kind of practical workshop activity vids are great. Question - with a less creative group, do you think cutting step 2 down to having them only choose their top 3-5 ideas would work?
This is a regular occurrence with groups that are hesitant to just throw ideas out there. Students, faculty member, administrators, ... anyone new to this way of working. Picking some number that’s still a stretch, but not overwhelming to the middle of the pack seems like a great way to modify this technique and make it more accessible to a less adventurous crowd. AND it would move their tolerance up a notch, especially if they saved a ton of time _and_ got good ideas to consider _and_ developed some consensus.
@AJ&Smart I love this process and I have stared to use this via a Miro board. Two questions to help improve my process. When voting how many votes per participant is the right amount? is there a ratio you use. Too few may not yeild enough results, too many may get too many and take a lot longer. Question two. Instead of dots, in Miro is it better to use the vote feature? I got feedback from a participant that voting annonymously would prevent the influence of seeing something getting a lot of votes. What do you think about that?
Enjoyed this video. I need ways to apply something like this when brainstorming creative ideas for ads. Do you have any vids geared toward that topic? Something that will help us not get bogged down with tons of ideas that really dont fit the brand. The team I am on seem to take hours to come up with concepts, and I know we can run these meetings better. I welcome any suggestions. Thanks!
This is a great idea. How could it be done in a virtual environment where everyone is in a separate physical location? Thank you!
Absolutely, I found a way to leverage Trello for our team to run this same play.
Set up the Trello board with volume for activity’s and have the team use cards as sticky’s
Love it. Efficiency baby!
Cool idea. I have a question How we can think a project requirement in product perspective ?
Nice! Straight fire!
What kind of workshop would you use to build on this?
Thanks for another great workshop vid. This covers the "What" problem solving. I assume the execution video you mention at the end will cover the "How"? Would that be another how might we exercise?
Great video with great idea! I guess if everyone has less than 10 ideas, doing 5 for 5 would also do the job. Love your content!
To be honest it is same as Note and Vote session. Don't know what is different about the Note and Vote session instead?
Nice ideas! Anything magical about 10 ideas? For a group of 5 or 6 or more, that could be a lot to go through. Why not go with top 5 or even 3 to start with so people have to filter a tiny bit before the group engages?
What is your recommendation for self-study of a design thinking book?
Design of Everyday Things is a great start! We also love Creative Confidence!
What do the follow-up meetings/exercises look like to execute on these ideas?
Cool technique. What is your experience with so many post its to vote on? Isn´t 3 minutes a bit tight?
What do you think of "burning" a percentage of the notes before the actual voting happens?
Hello AJ& Smart how u have have started your journey as design thinker.
U have done a certification cource or master degree?
Please help me out.... I want to be a design thinker
Thank you so much, I've really like this video, It's really help me.
I'm already liked, subscribed and bell all alerts. please do more video like this.
Thanks a lot for this video and all the others. There is one thing, I would like to ask: you are always assuming, that participants understand what others have written on the sticky notes, which is not always the case, as I saw, when conducting workshops. How do you proceed, when that happens? (Going through all the sticky notes together at least doubles the time of the exercise)
Hey David! Ideally all the notes remain anonymous, that's why it's important to stress that people try to communicate their ideas clearly - and maybe give them a few examples (dos and don'ts).
However, of course it's fine to ask people to explain if something seems interesting but unclear.
It's also fine to skip them if the facilitator thinks other stickies communicate the same, or a similar idea in a better way. Sometimes it's up to the facilitator to make a call how important it is to put the spotlight on an idea
As a facilitator, you should also take a look around what everyone is working on, and if some participants struggle to communicate their ideas in a way that's understandable to others without presenting them, remind everyone of dos and don'ts, best practices etc. (without specifically calling any participant out)
Great to see LDJ adapted for brainstorming meetings!
How about a link to download a pdf with the timing and voting details and a link to this video and related videos.
Great video.
My question however is, What if the agenda for a meeting was supposed to address more than one topic?
Good point Toluwase, this is just a workshop to kick off and generate ideas though. As it only takes ten minutes, you can do multiple runs of the workshop to ideate for different themes / topics! Still probably saving time on an unstructured meeting!
Hey Jonathan, I have a very basic question here - while voting, don't you think people will be biased to the one sticky note that already has good amount of votes (might be a hindrance/influence on their)
How would you do this when doing a brainstorm online? Since there is (in my country at least) a rule now for not going to offices anymore but working from home. But we still want to do brainstorm sessions, and this idea sounds very handy! Any tips?
Looove this!!
THANKS AJ !!
Anytime!
is there a web app for this for remote working? or is the functionally already built into google meet or zoom?
Use miro sir
Is there a web app that allows you to do this exercise with a remote team?
Fantastic Workshop!
How duplicate solutions are managed? Are removed before the Vote session?
Great question Alessandro! Yeh you can simply double them up under each other.
You are awesome
amazing really cool
Thank you! Cheers!
I will be definitely trying this during a meeting.
Awesome video, thanks a lot! Can you recommend a software for running this virtually?
you can use platform like miro
Great question Alex, yeh, Miro, or Mural, and perhaps a hosting service like WhereBy or Zoom?
@@daffamusyafa3647 Agreed!
AJ&Smart if using Miro or Mural how would one go about the first step I.e. without discussing or sharing ones list of ideas?
I feel this would work only if there are many attendees to generate many ideas to actually vote on. Perhaps not feasible with a 3-4 person meeting.
In our experience it works with even 2 people so you should give it a go anyway and see what comes out of it!
There will be many similar ideas on the board, doesn't it make sense to group the 60 "sticky notes" into themes? Like someone may write "BOOKS" and another "LIBRARY". Collectively they may have winning votes, but separately maybe not.
I was wondering this too. Maybe in the posting step, folks could call out duplications (match game!) and double up their sticky notes some way. Don’t want to get into a long categorization stage, but some simple clumping might be useful.
I agree. As a facilitator you can either cluster them yourself or get the group to cluster (which is also a great way for them to get more about the ideas into their heads than they would by just silently reading to themselves).
Thanks for the video :) wouldn't allowing to vote for your own ideas would bias the vote though? (some people are just more confident) I think voters should not vote for themselves.
No. Voters should be allowed to vot any idea including theirs. But every one should evaluate on ideas before voting
Agree. I see zero disadvantages on not allowing to vote on own ideas, but a potentially severe problem if that would be allowed. Some personalities might be less open minded thus more likely to vote on own ideas. The ideas of the less open minded are equally important, but it's a mistake to allow their personality to expectedly create that voting problem.
The actual method explanation starts at 5:35. You are welcome.
Can you see this working in a current Covid 19 online teaching scenario?
That is e x a c t l y how I draw rectangles!
Perfecto!!!! 🙏🏽
Hi Jonathan, this is very cool! I discovered your channel when researching the design sprint framework, and I was wondering if you have any advice on using the note-and-vote method in a Scrum sprint planning/backlog refinement setting.
As a project manager, I often find myself struggling with getting through a list of stories planned for these sessions because the team tends to get carried away by design and technical detail discussions. I want to try to implement this method and eliminate these painful discussions, but I'm not sure what should the team be voting for in this case. Should I ask everyone to think of 10 ways to implement a certain story/ address a requirement, and then vote? Also, no talking means no Q&A. What if people have questions about their teammates’ ideas and don't feel confident to cast their vote before those questions are answered?
Sorry about the length of this comment. Thanks for making these videos!
Hi guys! Thank you for the tip on this exercise. Would this exercise work for example in a meeting to discuss different projects overview for the year? I couldn't figure out how this exercise would work, can you please advice?
Hey, interesting take on it, as it's an idea generation exercise yes you could, but we would advise then hosting more detailed workshops once initial overviews had been selected to work out specifics, perhaps an LDJ? th-cam.com/video/33hBnZzoFAg/w-d-xo.html