"A Clicker Moment"

Discovery is a wonderful experience. It can be exhilarating when it happens on the spot at your next meeting, project review, town hall or Senior Leadership Meeting. We like to use Turning Technologies Clickers to help us in these wonderful moments. Here is an example. I was facilitating a very important senior level meeting for a Global Retail Business. The group proposed eight priorities for the next budget year. In a flash, it became apparent that eight could not be accomplished or afforded. So, what do you do?  You have a “clicker moment.” Write down the eight items sequentially, and ask the group to pick the most important of the eight. Click away.

When we did this, two things happened. Far and away, one of the priorities outweighed all of the others. However, another interesting thing occurred. Four of the eight received no votes. We were able to table these, and then focus on the remaining three. Within five minutes, with virtually no conflict, posturing, or stalling, we got to the core issues. We then could have a robust debate about which would be included, how much time and energy we should apply to them, and most important, who on the team was brining each of these home for us.

The best part, is that there is no set up. Use Turning Technologies, Turing Point Anywhere. Plug the device into your computer, and you are ready to go. Ask away and have the group click their response. Afterwards you can go back in and write down the actual question. It’s easy, fast, and inexpensive. Who said you could only pick two? With the extra time go gain from this, play a round of golf on me.