July 2006
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
3h 24m
English
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6.8 Activity: Identify Themes
Use this after locating strengths to generate insights in a longer iteration, release, or project retrospective.
Purpose
Find common threads from Locate Strengths interviews. Discern compelling ideas for experiments, changes, and recommendations.
Time needed
One to two hours.
Description
After Locate Strengths interviews, the interview pairs form groups and report what each learned as they interviewed the other person. As they report the high points, team members listen for common themes and compelling ideas. After the identifying themes, the group clusters all the cards. Small groups self-select to further define the ideas contained in the cluster.
Steps
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After interviews are complete, put two or three interview pairs together to form a group of four or six. Keep interview pairs together.
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Explain the process.
“Each interviewer will report on what he or she heard during the interview. Don’t worry about reporting the interview verbatim or covering all the points. Report on memorable themes, stories, and quotes heard in the interview.”
“After all the stories have been recounted, discuss the common themes that came up in more than one interview. Make a note of compelling ideas—even if they came up in only one report.”
“Write each idea on a large index card. Write legibly so others can read the card. One idea per card.”
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Each group reports on the themes they heard and posts their cards on a wall or spreads them out on the floor. ...
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