Draw Toast
Interviewing, hiring, or meeting someone for the first time? Learn a ton about them without having to ask a single question using this simple, yet effective exercise.
How to facilitate:
- Hand everyone participating a blank sheet of paper and a sharpie
- In 3 minutes, have them Illustrate how to make toast.
- Have them walk the group through how they make toast.
- Capture and share back any observations.
The Takeaway:
By having someone illustrate how they make toast you can learn a lot about them:
- • their creative confidence in picking up a marker and participating
- • their skills as a visual communicator (sketching)
- • their short-term memory capacity; the average person would record 3-5 steps in any process.
- • are they a functional or emotional decision-maker? (did they “feel hungry?” or are they right down to “take bread out of bag. insert.”
- • their capacity to think laterally.
- • maybe a personal preference or anecdote about them based on what they love on their toast 😉
