Thursday, July 22, 2010

Welcome to the "Gallery"

Let's take a walk through "the gallery" shall we?
By this I mean, an idea and feedback gallery.  But similar to an art gallery, this exercise has participants browsing  ideas or questions or categories posted on walls (typically on flip chart size paper).  In class we used the gallery for acquiring feedback on learning outcomes for programs we were creating a plan for.  I had never encountered this exercise before, but found the feedback gathered through the process very valuable.  People visited each paper posting with marker and post-it note in hand, jotting down questions, suggestions and constructive criticism.  At the end, the owners of each program were able to gather the paper with feedback and work on improving the content posted.

This type of exercise included visual and tactile learning styles and kinaesthentic, linguistic, intrapersonal, and visual multiple intelligences, which seemed to appeal to the majority of the 26 participants of the class.

I'd like to try this gallery exercise out in the workplace setting for a program or project to see if it has the same affect and outcome.

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