Virtual Activities for Facilitating Execution Processes

Tell participants they'll be voting on a decision using a number scale. Explain the scale and decision you’re voting on, have everyone type their vote into the Zoom chat, but instruct them not to hit send until you give them a cue. Cue the votes, then review and discuss the results.

Allow participants to vote on a decision using a multiple choice AhaSlide with four or more options. After the vote, duplicate the slide, delete an option or two, then have them vote again on the new slate. Can be repeated several times.

Have participants all join the Google Slides document and then using pre-made dots, have them place their dots on the pre-written sticky notes to vote. Once everyone has voted discuss results.

With all your potential options written on sticky notes in your mural start a dot voting session, where participants will move dots to their chosen sticky. Once everyone has voted (or time is up), review the results. Repeat for additional rounds, removing stickies as you go if desired.

Ask some members of your group to change their names to designate them as Red Team. It will be their job to play devil’s advocates to your plans, coming up with ways to sabotage them, point out their flaws, or highlight their vulnerabilities. The rest of the group, as Blue Team, is tasked with responding to these issues.

With participants leaning toward a potential option they’re supporting, pair participants up in breakout rooms. Instruct them to discuss how they would feel about their ideal option in ten minutes, ten months, and ten years. Then to do the same with other, competing options. Once back in the full group, have participants share things they heard from their partner that felt poignant.