When to Use Icebreakers

Consider using an ice breaker when:

Participants come from different backgrounds.
People need to bond quickly so as to work towards a common goal.
Your team is newly formed.
The topics you are discussing are new or unfamiliar to many people involved.
As a facilitator, you need to get to know participants and have them know you better.

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How to setup and run a successful hackathon

If run properly, a series of hackathons can establish a stream of valuable ideas . It can also have a significant cultural effect within your team, potentially awakening a experimentation and innovation mindset This article will explain different types of hackathons. It will discuss objectives, success criteria, and other important considerations.

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Hackathon

A hackathon is an intensive, often software-centric, ideation, prototyping and presentation challenge on known or unknown problems or opportunities.

It is a design sprint-li...

Some Benefits Of A Hackathon

Hackathons generate actionable ideas, strategic product concepts and process improvements.
Internal hackathons –organized within a company — provide a great way to inspire teams and promote creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking.
If run properly, hackathons can establish a stream of valuable ideas.
The gamification layer on top of hackathons can further motivate and reward employees for being innovative while staying aligned with the strategy of the corporation.

The Importance Of The Award

The most important though from a developer’s point of view is resources and sponsorship to drive the product/idea to the next stage. This could be the most inspiring award of all — the winners ability to use specialized resources (developers, equipment, software, services) — according to a suitable plan — and get prepared for a formal presentation of the outcome to the senior stakeholders, leaders and decision makers.

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What It Takes to Run a Great Virtual Meeting

Executive Summary Not being able to work together in the same room with colleagues may become a major challenge due to the coronavirus outbreak. To make virtual meetings work, you might need to adjust how your team conducts them. Prioritize video, but offer a dial-in option.

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Why virtual meetings go bad

Attendees often multi-task and don't pay attention to the discussion.
Meeting organizers tend to be less careful with the purpose and design of the conversation.
Usual...

Run great virtual meetings

Use video, but also provide an audio dial-in-option,
Test the equipment you are going to use before the meeting.
Make sure people can see each other properly.
Set an agenda, set some rules and clearly outline the next steps.
Make sure presentations take very little time.
Set a facilitator and call on people individually to speak.
Capture feedback in real-time and tackle difficult issues.

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4 Steps to Successful Brainstorming

Almost everybody does brainstorming wrong, Ralph Keeney says, and turns it into an enormous waste of time. He wants to tell you how to do it right. An emeritus professor at Duke's Fuqua School of Business and a consultant to such diverse organizations as the Department of Energy and, just last [...]

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Steps to Successful Brainstorming

Lay out the problem you want to solve.
Identify the objectives of a possible solution.
Try to generate solutions individually.
Once you have gotten...

Before heading into a group brainstorming session...

... organizations should insist that staffers first try to come up with their own solutions.

One problem with group brainstorming is that when we hear someone else’s solution to a problem, we tend to see it as what an “anchor - we get stuck on that objective and potential solution to the exclusion of other goals.

Only after participants have done their homework ...

... meaning clarifying the problem, identifying objectives, and individually trying to come up with solutions, a brainstorming session can be extremely productive.

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