Capture votes by switching to dot voting and assigning a specific number of votes to help focus priorities. Set a timer for the activity, guide participants to consider key factors like bottlenecks or areas for improvement, and review the results to identify shared priorities.
Dot Vote
Change the activity to dot voting. Set the timer for 2-3 minutes for the voting - reserving 2-3 minutes for brief review.
Allocate votes to about 20-30% of total options (e.g., 12 steps = 3 votes per participant to focus priorities
For very large groups of 15-20 you may consider reducing the votes to 2 to avoid too many options
Frame The Voting
"White limited resource and time constraints where would you vote?"
To get more information?
What bottlenecks would you address first?
Pause the collaboration to close the voting round and review the results
Example
In this example steps with longer wait time or expected flow time received the most votes. Yellow votes for more investigation and red ones for improvements.