A short YouTube explainer by Mike Lyons introducing the Fist of Five (or Fist of Five) technique for quickly gauging team consensus. Lyons defines the finger-scale (five = enthusiastic agreement down to a clenched fist = strong opposition) and invites viewers to try the method immediately.
Looking for a technique to quickly get feedback or gauge consensus from a team. Let me introduce you to the Fist of Five. Basically, you make a statement and then ask everyone to show their level of agreement with the statement by holding up their number of fingers from five for wild, unbridled enthusiasm, jazz hands down to a clenched fist for vehement opposition. And if you do show a one, be careful which finger you give me. Fist of Five. You can put this to work today.
