Garage Sale Game

Here's a fun way to get people to review ideas.

In a workshop I did, participants shared tips for doing a certain job. While each person spoke, the rest of the group sorted the tips out by writing them down in little books I gave them. Each book was divided into categories that the group came up with. I wanted everyone to walk away with lots of new ideas.

Now the really fun part.

After they had written about 20 tips down in their books I gave each person this nifty set of stickers. They come from Avery labels and are stickers to be used at a garage sale. So now everyone has a row of stickers that read $20, $10, $5, $1, and so on down to a quarter. They are round and brightly coloured as you would expect at a garage sale.

So the next task is to identify the top ideas in their books, the ones they have just collected. I gave everyone about 5 minutes to stick the stickers next to the ideas they loved. The top one of course got the $20 sticker and so on down the line. Then they found a partner and told why they chose the top idea and what they planned to do with it.

Office Depot is a never-ending source of inspiration to me. Take a gander down the aisles and see what ideas grab you, and then put them into action.