【正文】 of the model, explain most productive work falls into the inner two rings 2. Agree on what our group has control, influence, or just concern 3. Post information on the chart in the appropriate area 4. Discuss the ―concern‖ and ―influence‖ aspects, identify key stakeholders you should involve and plan how to increase your control or to exercise your influence Control Concern Influence 18 Workshop_Facilitaton_Tools Updated April 2023 GoFast!Fist to Five Thumbs Up What are they? Fist to Five and Thumbs Up are methods for checking consensus and reaching group decisions. Why use them? When a group is working on solving a problem or reaching a decision, having a visual means for polling the group is very helpful. Either of these techniques gives a quick visual read on level of agreement, identifies who needs to discuss things more and who is ready to move on to a decision. Fist to Five and Thumbs Up enables the group to determine if there is agreement or disagreement among the group members and assures everyone is heard. Steps: 1. After some amount of discussion, anyone in the group can ask to check for consensus 2. Choose one of the methods and explain how it works a. Fist to Five: use the of fingers on one hand to signify level of agreement (fist – not at all up to five – total agreement b. Thumbs Up: use the position of your thumb to signify agreement (thumb up), unsure, need more discussion (thumb sideways), against (thumb down) 3. For group members at less than four or five or without a thumbs up, ask them to explain what remains to be discussed or resolved 19 Workshop_Facilitaton_Tools Updated April 2023 GoFast!Fist to Five and Thumbs Up, continued Tips: 1. Make sure that the decision is appropriate for consensus and total mitment from all group members is required 2. Have someone clearly state the decision to be made or topic to be voted on 3. Continue to discuss points of difference and periodically test for progress 4. Fist to Five: Ask people to indicate how close to agreement they are by displaying the appropriate number of fingers: 5 = fully mitted 4 = close enough to fully support it 3 = getting there, close, need more information 2 = still a ways to go 1 = skeptical Fist = total disagreement 5. Thumbs Up: Ask people to indicate how close to agreement they are by displaying their thumbs in one of three ways: Thumbs Up = fully mitted, total agreement Thumbs Sideways = unsure, want more discussion Thumbs Down = skeptical, disagreement, need lots more discussion ? For participants showing less than four, ask them to state what makes them unfortable with the decision and what it will take to get to 4 or 5 ? Make sure everyone is participating and not showing disagreement or disengaging by abstaining 20 Workshop_Facilitaton_Tools Updated April 2023 GoFast!15 Words What is it? 15 Words is used to help a group summarize and clearly articulate an issue, problem statement, project definition, or the scope of the overall change initiative. The subject can range from detailed to general. Why use it? Group members are frequently called on to describe the initiative and having a succinct definition is important. The statement created from the 15 Word activity can help in: 1. Casual conversation with others, whether they are peers, managers, sponsors, or senior executives 2. Various munications about the initiative when there is not time to give great detail on the initiative 3. Having the entire group able to credibly and quickly describe what they are working on 15 Words is useful when consolidating many thoughts or ideas into one concise statement. This tool can be used at various points in a meeting when information needs to be consolidated and consensus needs to be reached. Some typical uses include: 1. In the scoping process to define the ―issue‖ to be addressed 2. During the meeting to define a single problem statement from a group of postit notes or a list of possible issues。 the frame represents the problem or issue that needs to be resolved 2. Explain we need to identify what falls inside the boundaries of the project and what falls outside 3. After reviewing the initiative and its objectives with the group, the leader and group members identify what is inscope and outofscope by identifying significant details or aspects of the issue 4. Discuss each idea and agree whether it is in or outofscope before placing it inside the frame for inscope items, outsidetheframe for outofscope items, and ontheframe for those items which need clarification 5. Discuss the ontheframe items once all the ideas have been reviewed 6. If there are any significant issues, details, or aspects that may be different from the discussions between the group leader, resolve them before working on a solution 11 Workshop_Facilitaton_Tools Updated April 2023 GoFast!In the Frame/Out of the Frame, continued Tips: 1. Using the aspects of the issue generated, ask the group where each falls。 explain the matrix to the group before beginning to add the postit notes 5. Brainstorm ideas and put each idea on a postit note as a total group, discuss each postit note and place into the matrix 6. Depending on the situation, this can be solutions to address the specific issue or on bigger topics, aspects of the problem to tackle 7. Encourage the group to identify and add any other ideas they e up with during the discussion 8. After all postit notes are on the matrix, discuss and decide which ones to tackle to begin problem solving and action planning 9. Address each postit note with action plans or make a decision not to resolve the item Tips: 1. Encourage the group to work on items that fall in the most optimum boxes 2. Actively facilitate the process so it doesn’t get bogged down in debate regarding w