The rules are simple. After downloading the Bingo sheets HERE, printing, cutting them into two, and distributing one (along with a pen or pencil) to each member at your meeting each person stands up and attempts to be the first… Read More ›
Meeting Activities
Meeting Activity: Effectiveness Grid
Here’s a tool based on the axiom that “people don’t argue with their own data.” Whereas they might argue with your data, they won’t argue with their own. Consequently the Effectiveness Grid is basically an empty sheet of paper with… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Home Teams
There are some events where we call the table where someone first sits down their “Home Team” with the understanding that although that’s where they started and where they will eventually finish the evening, they will be sitting with others… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Commonalities
There are times in a meeting when you might be having friendly table-to-table competitions or using the home teams concept as explained in the next post. In those instances taking a little time to allow each table to create a… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Panel Discussion
A panel provides variety in the communication of content. We periodically use this format when we distribute an article ahead of time and then have several members and a moderator discuss it in the front of the room (for no… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Placemat 1
Click HERE to download your copy. You might consider printing some copies and for a change of pace – having them out on the tables for place mats as members enter the room. A participant might receive one of five… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Ball Toss
What if you told your club meeting audience that at the end of the guest lecture you were going to ask each person what their best idea from the lecture might have been? Then after the lecture and before the… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: The Gallery Walk
HERE’S a full meeting where we used The Gallery Walk activity to its full potential. My suggestion would be to go there and envision this immersive activity in the context of one of your upcoming meetings. Other ways to use… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Window Paning
As a sister activity to the previous post on the subject of Mind Mapping, this post on Window Paning again creates a visual depiction of what is normally a process with six steps or less. No text is normally allowed… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Mind Mapping
As you can see or might already be aware, Mind Mapping is a visual way to depict the components comprising a general content area. In the context of a magic club, you might have blank 3M flip chart pages hung… Read More ›