Discussion Forum > Working on group tasks
Adam:
Interesting idea - I'd love to hear how you get on with it.
Research has shown that you get the best decisions in a group context if everyone votes without knowing what the others have voted for. So you best procedure might be to give everyone a personal copy of the sheet and ask them to go down it and see which item stands out for them, then take the vote.
As for stopping, I suggest you give each member some form of marker by which they can indicate when they feel they've done enough. Once a majority of markers are showing, then stop.
Interesting idea - I'd love to hear how you get on with it.
Research has shown that you get the best decisions in a group context if everyone votes without knowing what the others have voted for. So you best procedure might be to give everyone a personal copy of the sheet and ask them to go down it and see which item stands out for them, then take the vote.
As for stopping, I suggest you give each member some form of marker by which they can indicate when they feel they've done enough. Once a majority of markers are showing, then stop.
February 23, 2009 at 10:48 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Mark, thank you for your ideas. I didn't know about the research findings you mentioned, sounds promising. I'll let you know how it worked.
February 23, 2009 at 13:15 |
Adam
Adam
I realized what I was looking for was how to have a meeting in AF style. I blogged about my (very good) experiences how an AF-inspired approach could work in a meeting:
http://taskberry.com/2009/03/23/spinning-plates-meeting-method/
http://taskberry.com/2009/03/23/spinning-plates-meeting-method/
April 2, 2009 at 12:24 |
Adam
Adam
I'm going to facilitate a group and I got the idea to do it AF style. They have a long list of stuff, so I would put all items on a large sheet and hang it on the wall. The participants pick a task and start working on it. And here are my questions
- How to pick a task? Pick the one that gets the most votes? Or shall we strive for a group agreement? Or go with the task picked by the fastest member? Or...
- When to stop? When the first member is running out of oomph? Or when the majority feels like doing so? Or...
Any suggestions? Has anyone tried AF in a group setting?