That Change Show

#11 - Six Tips for Facilitating a KICK-ASS Lean Coffee Session

May 30, 2022 Lean Change Management Season 1 Episode 11
That Change Show
#11 - Six Tips for Facilitating a KICK-ASS Lean Coffee Session
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Six Tips for Facilitating a Kick-ass Lean Coffee Session

Lean Coffee is an amazing tool to use to flip your perspective from traditional change communications that focuses on broadcasting techniques, and toward creating meaningful dialogue.

Meaningful Dialogue is one of the Five Universals of Change: https://leanchange.org/philosophy

https://leanchange.org/elements/lean-coffee

Timestamps:
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00:25 What is lean coffee?
00:55 Using a Theme
01:35 Don't pre-seed topics
02:23 Make it anonymous
03:07 Better Voting Tips!
04:42 Setting Constraints
05:19 Scaling Techniques
06:14 Wrap-up
06:36 This week's featured artist - Jason Ross

Music: "Simple Life" by Jason Ross: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jasonross/simple-life

Want your music featured? Reach out at community@leanchange.org

Jason Little is an internationally acclaimed speaker and author of Lean Change Management, Change Agility and Agile Transformation: 4 Steps to Organizational Transformation. That Change Show is a live show where the topics are inspired by Lean Change workshops and lean coffee sessions from around the world. Video versions on Youtube

Using a theme
Don't pre-seed questions!
Make it anonymous
Better ideas for dot voting
Set cool constraints
scale, Scale, SCALE!
Wrap-up