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Most strategy offsites end with a wall of post-its.

Four traits decide whether a room produces something new or recycles what it walked in with. Twenty questions, about four minutes, and you get your own read plus the three things to do about it.

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20 questions | about 4 minutes

How you show up
in a room of ideas

Answer for how you actually behave, not how you would like to. The useful number here is the low one.

1, strongly disagree6, strongly agree

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Your floor
1  lowhigh  6

Read your traits

Tap a card

What each trait measures, what your score says, and three things to try.

Against the room

You
Room average

Across all 161 people who answered, Confusion Tolerance came out lowest at 4.05. It was the only trait anywhere below 4.2, and the weakest trait for 57 per cent of the room. Rooms rarely fail for lack of ideas. They fail because someone needs the discomfort to stop.

Your room

Now add the people you work with

A group does not create at its average. It creates at its floor, because the lowest trait in the room is the one that shuts the others down. Set the sliders to how your colleagues actually behave and watch what happens to the number.

You alone
Your room

This is arithmetic, not a prediction. It shows the lowest score present in the room. It does not claim to forecast what the room will produce.

Next

The traits are the mindset layer

Mindset explains why a room generates or does not. It does not explain why the output dies in the week after the workshop. That is a different problem, and the more expensive one.

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Five patterns that kill good decisions in the week after they are made, and how to tell which one is running in your organisation.

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The four traits are adapted from Andy Stefanovich, Look at More. The twenty questions and this scoring are Gabriel Campillo's own. Scored 1 to 6, with the eight negatively worded questions reverse scored.

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