Head / Heart / Hand
Evaluate an idea on its logical, emotional, and practical qualities
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PEST Analysis
Identify internal and external factors that may impact your situation
Premortem
Anticipate and prevent problems
Rose / Thorn / Bud
Identify positives, negatives, or opportunities in an idea, project, or process
Start / Stop / Continue
Evaluate past behavior and set actionable points to improve and move forward
SWOT Analysis
Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to your goal
Dark Reality
Assess negative impacts, ethical dilemmas, and unintended consequences
Opportunity Scoring
Base your prioritization on problems and opportunities rather than on solutions
Persuasive Patterns Impact Mapping
Select persuasive techniques for maximum impact and feasibility
PIE Scoring
Prioritize ideas for efficient use of resources and business goal alignment
RICE Scoring
Rate ideas on reach, impact, confidence, and effort
Important for this playbook
These workshop exercises are designed to help you assess your problems or ideas through different lenses. These exercises will aid you in comparing and contrasting problems, opportunities, and solutions to get a better understanding of where your efforts are more beneficial.
Evaluation exercises not only gives your ideas a reality check but also prevents you from going on a wild-goose chase. Use these exercises as a powerful tool especially after framing your problems and ideating solutions. Within the wealth of ideas you have generated, there might be hidden gems that could potentially all solve the problems you identified β but the constraint of time demands that you canβt test them all.
This is where the evaluation exercises come are helpful. These proven methods will allow you to thoroughly scrutinize your ideas and opportunities, ensuring they are worth the time and effort to develop further. These exercises serve to navigate your team towards the most promising and impactful solutions, turning your workshop into an effective idea refinery.
Run better workshops with Learning Loop card decks.
Every card deck includes workshop patterns, so your team can put the methods to work in your next session.
Running behavioral design workshops? The Persuasive Patterns Workshop Playbook (PDF) shows you how to design and run them.
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