Hi Thomas. What I sometimes do is invite one minute presentations. I have a special way of doing this - well worth trying.
If there are 20 presentations, make a row of 20 chairs and ask the presenters to sit in them. Whereever they are sitting is the running order, from left to right. Make sure everyone has a watch with a second hand. Imagine that the chairs are numbered from 1 to 20. Presenter 1 is timed by person in chair 2 who, when presenting, is timed by person in chair 3 ... and so on. Presenter 20 is timed by person in chair 1. This absolutely guarantees that all the presentations will only be 1 minute long. In fact, people sometimes do it in less than a minute. Apart from sticky dot voting, this is one of the coolest facilitation tricks I have aver come across. As a facilitator, you just set the thing up then sit back and watch. Success! Martin Leith 34-36 St George's Road Brighton BN2 1ED United Kingdom Phone +44 (0)1273 605061 Mobile +44 (0)7808 773713 Fax +44 (0)870 0888524 Website http://www.martinleith.com/
