Welcome to lesson three. So we're gonna think about our outline. Okay, so moving from our facilitators planning table, the last thing on there was understanding the key topics. So I'm going to take the example that I use with my colleague, we needed to facilitate a session on our team vision. So here's how you'd start with something like that. So we knew our goal, we had a couple things that were shared with us from her boss that they wanted it to be a collaborative experience, and that everyone needed to be able to contribute.
And then we came up with the activity. So to do a team vision exercise, we decided we were going to build a vision statement. So how do we get to the idea of building the vision statement? So we thought about a couple things? Well, we could do fill in the blank. We can ask a couple questions, really simple strategies, right?
And I asked my colleague as we're thinking through how we could do this and went really simple. I said, you know, First off, how would you possibly if you were tasked with this on your own? Think about doing writing a vision statement, right? Or a team vision? And I also asked, What are other scenarios or ways that you've done this before. I even brought up the idea of Mad Libs when you were younger and fill in the blanks, or, you know, filling in the blanks in terms of elementary school and learning sentence structure and definitions, right.
So you're getting the idea here, I'm just really trying to think about how you would do this yourself and other simple strategies. So here's what we came up with just a couple of examples here. So we asked two questions and had one fill in the blank. What do we hope to accomplish together two to three words, why do we do this work as before short freeze, and then we know we have succeeded if a fill in the blank and just drawing your attention back to those two notes, next of the first questions, the two to three words, the short phrase This is back to your initial planning. In setting expectations, it's really about helping people understand how they can contribute to whatever it is that you're leading to be successful. So the major takeaways and outlining your topic areas and an activity.
So whatever your topic may be, think about basic ways you yourself would tackle or answer the question at hand. And questions are a good place to start.