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The Handover

The Handover
Remote or in person

Explain your job to somebody in ninety seconds. Then they explain it to the room.

Pairs explain their actual work to each other in ninety seconds, then present their partner's job back to the room. Hearing your own job described by somebody who has known about it for ninety seconds is genuinely instructive, and everyone learns who does what.

CommunicationConnectionCollaborationConversation Starter
Use this when

A room from different teams needs to understand what everybody else actually does, usually at the start of cross-team work.

Props: None

Run this when…

If none of these is your room, pick another.
  1. A cross-team workshop or offsite

  2. A group who work near each other and do not know what the others do

  3. Before anything about handovers or dependencies

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At a glance
6–60people
10–15minutes
Energylow
Where
Remote or in person
Props
None
Big screen
Required
Teams
Individual only
What it builds
communication