{"id":1165,"date":"2009-09-17T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2009-09-17T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T22:22:46","slug":"bodystorming-techniques-how-to-handle-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"Bodystorming Techniques: how to handle &#8220;experts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bodystorm how do you handle \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cdominant talkers?\u201d<br \/>\nBodystorming works best when you bring together different people. But what happens when someone is a \u201cexpert\u201d and tries to guide the group down only their path.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with Self appointed experts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Other people will defer to them SO really set the stage with everyone first putting down what is known about the issue.\u00a0 It helps to give each body storm group \u00a0materials (like an issue board) so that everyone is using the same set of \u201cfacts\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Underscore the fact that everyone has tacit knowledge that needs to be brought to bear on the issue and they need to talk &amp; ACT in order for their tacit knowledge to be expressed.<\/li>\n<li>In addition when the people are first introducing each other, try to avoid encouraging responses that would highlight participants level of education, socio-economic status, or amount of experience with the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dealing with Dominant Talkers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spot them in the pre-session small talk and make sure during the body storm you keep a close eye on them and perhaps spend more time with that group in the initial start.<\/li>\n<li>If that doesn\u2019t work then give them a speaking stick or other object that if you want to speak you have to hold to make it painfully obvious how much one person might be dominating dialogue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best is to Set the Stage from the start<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn body storming exercises like this we know that some people talk a lot or seem to drive the group. It is essential for body storming success to have all of you participate because only through everyone working together does all the tacit individual wisdom get bubbled up and affects other individuals and coalesce in the whole of the body storm.. So if I come over an interrupt to make sure everyone is participating, please don\u2019t be offended. It is just my way of making sure we get good results from your investment in your body storm.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ySKeSZeWywMC&#038;pg=PA100&#038;lpg=PA100&#038;dq=dominant+talker+focus+group&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=vZCeFF3dSq&#038;sig=SRzAsT-hXuXDHIXBgm621j36loc&#038;hl=en&#038;ei=8aCySqHCKp6MtgeD-eizDg&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;ct=result&#038;resnum=1#v=onepage&#038;q=dominant%20talker%20focus%20group&#038;f=false\">Focus Group Moderation Guides for the same issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bodystorm how do you handle \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cdominant talkers?\u201d Bodystorming works best when you bring together different people. But what happens when someone is a \u201cexpert\u201d and tries to guide the group down only their path. Dealing with Self appointed experts Other people will defer to them SO really set the stage with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}