1. Reflect on your experience in a team. This can be any team, a work team or a community team.
a) What were the ground rules of the team?
b) Were they different to the rules above?
c) What were the rules that worked?
d) Could some common rules have made the team interactions more positive?
e) Looking back on the team, what changes would you make to ensure that the team functioned to it maximum?
2. Identify a real or hypothetical problem within your team. You can use any previous experience from any other team environments that you have been in before.
a) Come up with at least 4 different possible solutions.
b) Create a criteria for selecting the best solution and why.
c) How would you put your solution into action and how will you measure that it has been successful?
3. Use the same or different problem that you have identified in the previous question.
a) Make use of one of the three methods for facilitating idea flow to generate ideas to help you solve the problem.
b) Explain the process and any materials and or questions that you will use to facilitate your group discussion. Pay special attention to keeping the group on topic but not censoring the ideas in the initial stages.
4. Research 2 more discussion flow ideas /activities, explain in detail how they would work and what resources you would need for each.