Walt Disney
ACTIVITY TYPE
- Consulting
- Deciding together
DESCRIPTION
On the basis of a role play, several people look at and discuss a situation from three different perspectives (roles). The Walt-Disney-Method method looks for the solidarity between creativity and feasibility. Goals and visions are transferred into a form that is suitable for practical application. The method serves to change perspectives.
HOW TO USE IT ONLINE
Use the Jamboard, Whiteboard or similar tool
Use e – tools like https://www.mentimeter.com/
RESOURCES NEEDED
- Time to do: 1.5 -2 hours
- Staff: advanced facilitator
Equipment: For each individual role, a separate room should be created. However, it does not necessarily have to be individual rooms; three chairs, which are placed in different corners of a room, are sufficient; 3sheets A4 paper, pens.
SUITABLE FOR
- Medium groups (8-11participants)
HOW TO DO IT
- Group goes into the role of the dreamer. The dreamer develops ideas and visions. He can let his imagination run wild and does not care about possible limitations.
- Afterwards, the group takes on the role of the realist. The realist adjourns with the ideas he has won, reflects and asks himself the following questions: What needs to be done or said? What is needed for the implementation (material, people, resources, knowledge, techniques, etc.)? What do you feel about this idea? Which basics are already available? Can the approach be tested?
- At the last point in the cycle, the team takes on the role of the critic. It has the task of dealing constructively with the results of the realist and to express criticism. Starting points for this can be: What could be improved? What are the opportunities and risks? What was overlooked? How do I think about the proposal?
- Open questions are then handed back to the dreamer, who reintroduces the cycle based on the findings. The process is considered complete when the critic can no longer ask further relevant questions and when it is foreseeable that another run will not bring any optimization.
ADVANTAGES
- If there are only similar characters in a team, this method helps to take a different view and break out of the old ways of thinking.
- Deadlocked thinking structures are solved
- This method can also be pragmatically and easily performed in a three-roll discussion at a table. In addition, additional persons can debate and take the word in the sense of the three roles.
CHALLENGIES
- Not necessarily required in a group of characters that already have the appropriate character traits anyway
VARIATIONS
It is also possible for one person to take each role in turn on a different chair.
This method can also be pragmatically and easily performed in a three-roll discussion at a table. In addition, additional persons can debate and take the word in the sense of the three roles.
MORE INFORMATION
https://t2informatik.de/en/smartpedia/walt-disney-method/
https://www.designmethodsfinder.com/methods/walt-disney-method