Having a team enables you to get different opinions on a given topic. What happens most of the time is that judge an opinion based on how the person pitched the idea. This way we end up deciding on the best idea based o how it was sold to us. There is a way to remove this bias and harness the collective inteligence.
Using the concept of “Working Alone, Together” you can collect your team’s best ideas based on quality, not on who pitched them.
The phrase “Working Alone, Together” is borrowed from the book “Sprint” by Jake Knapp. The concept is simple: instead of opening a discussion during a brainstorming or problem-solving session, simply ask people to write down their ideas alone, without discussing them. This gives everyone the space to think and come up with ideas without wasting energy on how or when to present them.
👉 At your next meeting, try giving everyone the space to think and write their idea on sticky notes in silence, without discussing it. Then collect everyone’s contributions and stick them on the wall. Now you have a wall full of ideas that would have taken you one or more meetings to come up with.
By combining all the principles you can have a successful meeting.
👁 Discussions are Visualized
🔄 Discussions are Sequenced
🙇♂️ Working Alone, Together
🎯 There is always a Decision