Mike Lyons explains the facilitation technique 'dot voting': participants receive a limited number of votes (often stickers) to allocate to options, and the option with the most dots wins. He outlines practical implementation (in-person stickers, sticky notes) and cautions: limit options (suggested maximum ~10), avoid overly similar options, and consider using color-coded dots for positive/negative feedback.
I want to introduce a technique to you now called dot voting. It's an established facilitation method used to quickly get to agreement on the most important topics to work on or to discuss as a team. Basically, participants are given a certain number of votes. It can be in the form of a sticker. If you're in person, very tactile and something you could do on list of sticky notes, they place those dots or those stickers next to the options that they like and the option with the most dots or most votes wins. It's just that simple. But basically it's a one question multiple choice survey done with stickers. Now, quickly, I got to tell you, there can be some downsides to this. You'll want to be careful to make sure that your options are limited. Probably don't want to have more than 10 or so options. It gets a little too confusing after that. Also be very careful that the options aren't too similar to each other. Another option, you could do different colors, like maybe red for negative and green for positive and sort of do a negative voting like we really like these and we really don't like those.
