This is a fun activity to get everyone in a more creative mood. Ask everyone to draw a picture of how to make toast. It’s always intriguing seeing the different ways people think and draw!

How to do it

This game helps everyone to get into a more creative mindset, AND gets them to show a little bravery by drawing. Drawing can be unfamiliar to a lot of people, but it’s always interesting and insightful when people express themselves in pictures as well as words. Emphasise to your group that this activity has nothing to do with drawing ability, and there is no right or wrong; this is all about drawing simple ideas, not drawing for art, or likes on Instagram.

Ask everyone to draw (using a marker and plain office paper) a picture of how to make toast. Give them 3 minutes.

After the 3 minutes, ask everyone to stick their pictures up on a wall with sticky tape. If your meeting is remote, ask everyone to post a photo of their drawing on Slack or a similar common online collaboration space. Then, ask everyone to reflect on what they see, and offer any comments or observations. Usually, people are amazed at the sheer variety of drawings, which shows how differently we can think about depicting the same thing.

As a facilitator, you can use these comments and observations as way to encourage people to think about a larger challenge they have to tackle. Get them to appreciate how different people think in different ways (strategically, tactically, end-to-end, details).

Source: Dave Gray

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