Help Me Understand
Help Me Understand facilitates open communication between employees and leadership by allowing team members to express their questions about a topic or change. This method helps reveal common concerns and enables leaders to address them directly, fostering transparency and clarity.
Comment l'animer
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Write the meeting topic and the headers 'WHO?', 'WHAT?', 'WHEN?', 'WHERE?', and 'HOW?' across a large visible space.
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Distribute sticky notes and markers to all participants.
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Instruct participants to write down as many questions as they can think of under each header, starting with 'WHO?'. Allow five minutes per header.
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Participants post their questions under the respective headers.
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Volunteers cluster similar questions together under each header.
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Highlight the largest clusters and invite leadership to respond to the most common and interesting questions.
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Repeat the process for each of the remaining headers.
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Collect all questions at the end for further review by leadership.
Conseils
Encourage participants to be candid with their questions to maximize the value of this exercise.
Consider whether to allow leadership to interject throughout or save their responses for the end, depending on the group dynamics.
Summarize themes to help highlight areas of concern.
Variantes
You can conduct the process in two ways: clustering all questions first and then addressing them, or alternating between question collection and leadership responses. Choose based on the group's preference for uninterrupted question generation or ongoing interaction.
Contextes d'utilisation
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