Useful resources: round-robin tables for a speed sharing session

Get the maximum of ideas in a minimum of time.

Speed sharing allows you to retrieve a maximum of ideas or opinions from a group of people in a limited time span.

It's based on the speed dating principle: each participant meets each other participant for a determined number of minutes to exchange ideas or opinions on a certain topic. In each next round, the participant continues to build on the insights he or she got during the previous rounds. In the end, participants share their findings in a plenary session, which allows the group to continue to work on the main ideas that have been generated.

How do you organise this? The Berger pairing or round-robin table.

The challenge is to make sure that every participant has seen every participant at the end of the session. You could calculate this by hand or build a formula in Excel but there is an easier way: just download our pre-established Berger or round-robin tables for groups of 4 to 30 participants. The table shows you which participant should meet which another participant in each specific round.

Click here to get our free copy of the Berger Pairing Tables, from 4 to 30 participants. No credit card or e-mail required, it's just for the pleasure of sharing ;-).

You can easily reduce the time for each conversation during the process. You can start for example with 2 x 10 minutes for the first rounds and end with 2 x 3 minutes for the last rounds, depending on the number of new ideas that are still being generated at each round.

If you need help for the development or facilitation of an effective workshop in Dutch, French or English to align, share, or engage, get in touch by mail on  xavier.huysmans@exhocet.be, by phone on +32 (0)2 245 35 00 or by using the contact form.