The Debrief

by Karen Favazza Spencer 2 December 2014

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Goal: Learn how to feedforward using the Debrief.

featuring Jolts Visible Agendas Powerful Questions Collaborative Activities

Output: An actionable idea or two for the Team and a sense of what Karen brings to the table.

Learning Theory

Appreciative Inquiry

Cognitive Psychology

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Introduction

About Me: I’m a certified Scrum Master and an experienced Agile Coach. I was formerly an analyst, call center manager, and teacher. My default approach is collaborative and possibility oriented. I’ve been told I have great attention to detail. “Let’s make this easy” is my tag line.

About You: Tell me your names, please. I might not remember them all today, but I will remember some.

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Six Tiles:Thinking Outside the Box

Source: Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Ph. D.

thiagi.com

Jolts! Activities to Wake Up and Engage Your Participants. Copyright © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Reproduced by permission of Pfeiffer, an Imprint of Wiley. www.pfeiffer.com

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Rules

Combine the 6 tiles to create three words.

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Round 1

MAN SON

OBJ AGE

LES ECT

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Round 1 - answers

MANAGE

OBJECT

LESSON

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Round 2

ATT ION

END RIT

RET IRE

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Round 2 - answers

ATTRITION

RETIRE

END

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Round 3

ACT NIH

FAT NOI

HER WIT

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Round 3 - answers

ACTION

FATHER

WITHIN

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Round 3 – answers continued

ACTION

FATHER

WITHIN

NOI ->

NOINIH ->

NIH

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Directions

Rearrange the six tiles to spell three familiar words.

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Round 4

AMI RDS

EEF RWO

LIA THR

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Round 4 - answers

THREEFAMILIARWORDS

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Round 5

ONE ANY

WAY THI

HOW ACP

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Round 5 – answers

ANYONE

ANYHOW

ANYWAY

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Round 6

ARL EKH

TAI NET

TCG DTS

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Round 6 – answers

ARLTAITCGEKHNETDTS

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Round 6 – answers continued

A R LT A IT C GE K HN E TD T S

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Debrief

1. What did you notice? 2. What did you feel?

a. What was difficult?b. What was easy?c. What was surprising?

3. How does this apply to your world?

JOLT

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Meetings

Purpose that leads to action.Feed-Forward concept: A. Make things visible.B. Engage participants. C. Action Items & Follow-up.

Visual Facilitation

Manifestation of Ideas

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Our Strengths

CurrentChallenges

What we need to do. Output Artifact: We will.......

********************** How do we demonstrate our results: ★Behavior

★Metrics

Action Items:

What Who By When

Visible Agendas

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Workshop

Collaborative GamesA. SpeedboatB. Yankee Swap variationC. World Cafe

concept exploration

Capturing Complex ConversationsUsing Appreciative Inquiry

Enabling Imagination 24

Seven Sentences

Workshops are fun, but unless the information is retained and used, they are a waste of time. Seven Statements is one technique for increasing retention.

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Q &A

What would you like to know?

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