Your brainstorming sessions are dominated by a few voices. How can you get quieter members to speak up?
In brainstorming sessions, it's easy for dominant voices to overshadow quieter members. To foster a more inclusive environment, try these strategies:
What strategies have you found effective in encouraging participation?
Your brainstorming sessions are dominated by a few voices. How can you get quieter members to speak up?
In brainstorming sessions, it's easy for dominant voices to overshadow quieter members. To foster a more inclusive environment, try these strategies:
What strategies have you found effective in encouraging participation?
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If you want the entire team to participate and be proactive in the meeting 1) Call out the person's names and ask their views. 2) Encourage the team members in your daily scrum calls or calls organised private to the team where you can tell them the importance of speaking up and highliting their work and efforts in the way how they are adding value to the project. 3) Pair each team members in to 2 or 3 different groups and conduct activities such as story telling, debates, etc 4) In Retrospective Meets, discuss on each person's contribution or help to the other team members apart from their actual assigned tasks and appreciate them with badges and stars which can be documented everytime and this can be shown to the Managemet team.
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For quiet voices or those hesitant to speak up with more dominant voices at play, asking the right questions and designing the right process is key. Focus on questions that invite new voices in (Can we hear from someone that hasn’t spoken yet?) and questions what invite disagreement (What are we missing? What are the risks? Can someone play opposing view?). Create your process in a way that encourages new voices and different ways of thinking. Mix things up with time for silent writing and pair work alongside larger group work. This allows those that aren’t as comfortable speaking up in the large group to share their perspective.