Workshops often revolve around generating a multitude of ideas and addressing various problems. However, the real challenge often lies not in ideation but in decision-making - prioritizing the ideas or issues that warrant immediate focus and action. That’s where our Decision exercises come in.
The “Decision” category of the Workshop Patterns Playbook is a dedicated collection of exercises that facilitate structured decision-making and prioritization processes. The tools in this section empower you to sift through ideas or problems, rank them based on your specific needs, and ultimately decide what to focus on.
Each exercise is unique, catering to different workshop settings, group sizes, and decision-making requirements. Whether you need to achieve consensus within a diverse group or rank a list of potential product features, you’ll find an exercise that can help.
Effective decision-making in workshops relies heavily on understanding your needs and those of the group. Choose the exercise that best aligns with your workshop objectives, the dynamics of the group, and the nature of the decisions to be made.
Empower your participants to make decisions that drive action and results!
Prioritize a list deciding where to spend $100
Focus product discovery to move your idea forward
Neutralize dominating personalities & opinions by voting anonymously
Each participant shares their opinion and lets the decider cast their vote
Use colored dots to vote on the importance of individual items
Quickly collect feedback or gauge support during a meeting
Quickly gauge break-out group consensus
Visually indicate the winning idea by creating a heatmap of opinions
List key actions for your future self and explain why change needs to happen
Sticky votes on the wall
Direct decision-making through pre-selected criteria
Make a timeline to define the phases of your project
Shape the future of your product collaboratively
Clarify roles and responsibilities
Let participants indicate approval or disapproval visually
Understand and agree on what one another does
Show support using your thumbs
Obligate a group to rank items relative to the others
Each participant vote with one dot with their name on it
Visually prioritize project or product dimensions with stakeholders
Unite a group with tasks they've crafted and committed to
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