Appreciation Round
Each person names one thing a colleague did well.
Everyone names one person and one specific thing that person did well. Specific is the rule — 'great attitude' is banned. Named, not anonymous, because the point is that the person hears it and the room hears them hear it.
Run this when…
The situations it was built for. If none of these is the room you have, it is probably the wrong activity.
- The end of a long project
- A team losing a member
- A recognition or awards session
How it runs
Everyone types a short answer and it lands on the big screen as it arrives.
- 1You start a session and put the code on the big screen.
- 2Everyone joins on their phone — no app, no sign-up, just the code.
- 3You drive the pace from the host screen; the room answers as they go.
- 4Ending the session builds the report, with every answer in it.
Running it well
Only the host sees these. Participants never do.
- Assign who appreciates whom before you start, out loud. Left to itself, appreciation flows to the three most visible people in the room and everyone notices who was missed.
- Reject the first vague one you see, kindly and in public. It recalibrates the rest of the room instantly.
This one needs a warm room
It asks for real candour. In a group that has already loosened up it is the best thing in the Library; in a cold room it lands somewhere between awkward and harmful. Run an icebreaker or an energiser first.
Run it yourself
Free for thirty days, no card. Add it, share the code, and your room is playing in about fifteen seconds.
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- Players
- 4–120
- Runs for
- 8–16 min
- Where
- Remote or in person
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Individual only
- Best for
- Candour & trust