How can I avoid group think and biasing in remote workshops?
How can I avoid group think and biasing in remote workshops?
Q&A: Workshops and facilitation with Service Design
Preparing a workshop like a service designer
Preparing a workshop like a service designer
Custom workshop Canvases
Custom workshop Canvases
Workshops with a lot of participants
Workshops with a lot of participants
Running and facilitating a workshop like a service designer
Running and facilitating a workshop like a service designer
Creating a workshop report like a service designer
Creating a workshop report like a service designer
Mass participation workshops
Mass participation workshops
Synthesis in Service Design workshops
Synthesis in Service Design workshops
Miro, the whiteboard tool that I prefer these days, has a few ways to avoid group think in remote workshops:
Anonymous voting in Miro
The Voting feature in Miro allows you to select sticky notes or objects and then have people vote on them. You can set up this vote to be anonymous and as people are voting they don't see the results before the vote is finished.
This is great as people are not biased during the voting process by what they see others doing.
Private mode in Miro
The Private mode in Miro is another good tool that helps keep work in the tool private. It hides the cursor and removes the information of who added the sticky notes.
So people won't see for example, what piece of feedback come from their friend or boss.
Similar features in other tools
Other online whiteboards have similar features, for example Mural also has a voting feature. Just look for them in the documentation of your favorite whiteboard app.