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Structure · Meetings The secret ice cream. Makes presenters improvise and keeps an audience awake, with nothing more than a word on a piece of paper. Small / Large5 to 10 minutes Open → Structure · Meetings Lead with a customer story. Gets every head into the meeting, and puts a real customer at the start of it. Small / Large5 to 10 minutes Open → Structure · Meetings The wave. It gives a large audience one simple, shared action and brings energy back into the room. 50+5 minutes Open → Structure · Meetings Presentation gallery walk. Makes a presentation interactive without asking a traditional organisation to abandon PowerPoint. 3 to 2545 to 60 minutes Open → Structure · Meetings Rock paper scissors knockout competition. Gets people moving and creates a quick sense of being one group. Around 10 or more5 to 10 minutes Open → Structure · Meetings 1-2-4-All. Gets everyone in the room thinking and talking, in twelve minutes. 3 to 50+12 to 15 minutes MembersOpen → Structure · Meetings Mad Tea. Many quick conversations on one challenge, in two circles. 10 to 5020 to 25 minutes MembersOpen → Structure · Meetings · Strategy Sabotaging colleagues. Ask how you would make colleagues miserable, then do the opposite. 5 to 5015 to 30 minutes MembersOpen → Structure · Meetings · Acts, not ads Sabotaging customers. Ask how you would frustrate customers, and find the moments that matter. 3 to 5015 to 30 minutes MembersOpen → Structure · Meetings · Strategy Must-win battles. Three to five battles to win, each with an owner and a definition of won. 6 to 20Half a day, then monthly MembersOpen →

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