Step 1Word cloud
In one word, how does this project feel right now?
Feeling rather than fact, so nobody needs to have prepared. It is the icebreaker and the data at the same time.
Word cloud generator
Ask one open question and every answer lands in the same picture. Words the room repeats grow; words one person wrote stay small. In about twenty seconds a group can see what it collectively thinks.
What a word cloud is good for
It answers "what does this room keep saying" in one glance from the back of a hall, which no list of forty answers can do. It is the wrong tool for anything you need to count — if the number matters, ask a multiple choice question and read the bars.
Add a word
Type one and watch where it lands.
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One word for your last team meeting
How to get a good one
Ask for one word
Say so in the question. "In one word" gives you a readable cloud; anything else gives you forty phrases that all appear once.
It grows as answers arrive
The picture assembles in front of the room, which is the part people remember.
Nobody is named
Answers are never attributed. That's why people write the honest word.
Built for a big screen
The presenter view fills the wall and stays readable from the back row.
Three questions worth asking
Each takes under a minute.
- Step 2Word cloud
One word for what's slowing us down most.
The biggest word is your agenda, and it arrived without anyone having to say it in front of the person responsible.
- Step 3Open text
Say more about that word — a sentence is fine.
Once the room has said the hard thing together, writing it out costs much less.
Running it well
Put it on the big screen
Watching it assemble is what tells a room that everyone else feels the same way. On a laptop it's just a chart.
Wait before you talk
The first three answers make a misleading shape. Let it settle, then read it out.
Ask it again at the end
The same question before and after is the cheapest measure of whether the session changed anything.
Make a word cloud from your own room
Type a question, share the code, watch the shape arrive.
Create your word cloud nowNo card, and nobody you invite needs an account.
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