The team workshop facilitator deck, slide by slide
What to say, what to do and how long each slide takes, with the prep list and the 45-minute version. The slides and the guide are downloads at the end.
THE DIRECT ANSWER
This is a 60-minute team session on one move: share the fact only you hold, ask two questions of the people who hold the rest, then say the yes the facts support. It has 12 slides, one worked case that you run with the room and a paired practice round on a second case, and the guide has a 45-minute version. This is a draft for review, not a finished product, and every case in it is fictional.
Print the pair pages (pages 17 and 18): one Asker page and one Client page per pair. Fold them or keep them face down.
Print the handout (page 19): one per person. It stays with them; nothing is collected.
Print the run sheet (page 3) for yourself. You fill in counts of pairs, never names.
Open the slides on the room screen. The smallest slide text is 24 px at 1080p, so the back row can read it.
Put the timer where you can see it. Write the two questions on the board before people arrive.
The page numbers in this list are pages of the guide PDF.
Who it is for
About 6 to 24 people in pairs, in a room or on a video call. Participants need no preparation and no experience with AI tools. For an odd number, make one trio: the third person listens and notes which fact changed the yes.
The hour at a glance
The hour at a glance (minutes, what happens, length in minutes)
Minutes
What happens
Length (min)
0 to 5
Welcome, agenda and ground rules
5
5 to 13
The method: two questions
8
13 to 27
One worked case, together
14
27 to 45
Paired practice round
18
45 to 52
Debrief
7
52 to 57
The AI lens
5
57 to 60
Takeaway
3
The 45-minute version
The 45-minute version (minutes per segment)
Segment
60 min
45 min
Welcome, agenda, ground rules
5
4
The method
8
6
Worked case
14
10
Paired practice round
18
14
Debrief (facts, then questions)
7
5
The AI lens
5
4
Takeaway
3
2
Total
60
45
Practice round at 45 minutes (Pair up, read silently 2, Asker's half 1, Two questions 4, Write the yes 3, Compare with the next pair 2, One sentence each 2; 14 minutes in all). Show slides 5 and 6 together in the worked case, and keep only debrief questions 1, 3 and 4 (slide 10).
The 12 slides
These are the Say, Do and Watch for lines from the notes page of each slide in the guide, in its words. A line that says "this page", "the next notes page", "the table" or "on the slide" points to the guide or the slides PDF: the answer tables (Alex's and Otto's answers) and the plans of each case are not shown here, and are on the guide page named under each slide title. The guide also has the run sheet, the pair pages and the handout.
Slide 1 of 12: Two questions before you say yes
Clock: minutes 0 to 3 (3 min)Guide page 5
Say
“Welcome. For the next 60 minutes we practice one move on fictional cases. Nothing here is scored, and nothing we say is about anyone in this room.”
“The people on this slide are the characters from the practice cases. Alex, Dana and Tomas are colleagues. Otto is a fictional AI assistant.”
Do
Have this slide up as people arrive. Timer visible.
Check that the pair pages are printed and face down (pages 17 and 18 of the guide, one of each per pair).
Say your name and the length of the session, then move on. Two minutes at most.
Watch for
If someone asks whether this is a test: it is practice, nobody is scored and no one's answers are recorded by name.
Otto is a fictional AI; its replies are written for practice and are not a prediction of how any real AI product behaves.
Slide 2 of 12: Agenda
Clock: minutes 3 to 5 (2 min)Guide page 6
Say
“Here is the hour: a short method, one case we do together, a pair practice round, a debrief, then one look at what happens when an AI says yes.”
“Three ground rules. One: the cases are fictional, so we talk about the case, never a colleague. Two: you can pass on any step and just listen. Three: I will not write down what any one person says. At the end we record what the room noticed, in counts, with no names.”
Do
Read the three rules aloud. They are on the slide and on the handout.
Point at the timer and say when the practice round starts (minute 27).
Watch for
If the group includes a manager and their reports, say plainly that nothing in the session is used to judge or rank anyone.
Slide 3 of 12: The method: two questions
Clock: minutes 5 to 13 (8 min)Guide page 7
Say
“Many quick yeses rest on a fact someone does not have yet. The method is three lines.”
“One: share your half. Say the fact only you hold. Two: ask two questions of the people who hold the rest. Three: say the yes the facts support, as a proposal that names an owner and a time. It is not a promise until the person who decides confirms it.”
Do
Read the three lines. Write the two questions on the board.
Ask the room for a general example of a fact that someone else held and you lacked. One minute, no names, no real colleagues.
Explain 'who decides': it can be a person or a role. If you do not know who it is, that is the first thing to find out.
Watch for
People may treat the two questions as a script. Say: make them specific to the case in front of you.
Keep this to 8 minutes; the case does the teaching.
Slide 4 of 12: Worked case: the situation
Clock: minutes 13 to 18 (5 min)Guide page 8
Say
“This is a fictional case. You are preparing a client demo. Read the situation on the slide. Otto, our fictional AI planning assistant, has just told you all three parts can be ready by Friday noon.”
“Alex, the delivery lead, is the person you can ask. I will play Alex. Alex answers only with the words on the next slide. If you ask something that is not there, Alex says: I don't have that.”
Do
Read the situation aloud. Do not reveal the next slide.
In pairs, two minutes: write two questions you would ask Alex.
Take three or four questions from the room and write them on the board.
Watch for
Keep the answers back until the room has committed to its questions.
The full set of Alex's answers is in the table on the next notes page.
Otto is a fictional AI; its replies are written for practice and are not a prediction of how any real AI product behaves.
Slide 5 of 12: Worked case: two questions
Clock: minutes 18 to 23 (5 min)Guide page 9
Say
“Here is what Alex says. The first two questions each surface a fact you did not have: the hours available, and how long each part takes.”
“The third question, can you go faster, adds no fact. It is a natural thing to ask. It gets you an estimate that is still current, and no plan.”
Do
Show the slide. Read Alex's answers in the words shown.
Ask: which questions added a fact, and which did not? Take two answers.
If the room asked a question that is not on the slide, answer from the table on this page, or say: I don't have that.
Watch for
Do not improvise facts for Alex: no helper, no extra hour, no new date. If it is not in the table, Alex does not have it.
Slide 6 of 12: Worked case: the yes the facts support
Clock: minutes 23 to 27 (4 min)Guide page 10
Say
“Now the arithmetic. The three parts take 3 hours, 1 hour and 3 hours, 7 hours in all. Only 5 hours are free before Friday noon. Core plus handoff is 4 of the 5.”
“So the yes the facts support keeps Friday noon and delivers core plus handoff, and leaves the polish as a separate decision. That decision belongs to the owner of the Friday demo, not to us.”
Do
Before you reveal the plans, ask the room to say their yes in one sentence and who decides.
Then reveal. Read the four plans and their verdicts.
Say it again: the yes is a proposal until the owner confirms it.
Watch for
Someone will say 'work the extra two hours'. Ask: who approved them, and are they actually free? That is the second question again.
Slide 7 of 12: Practice round: your pair and your page
Clock: minutes 27 to 29 (2 min)Guide page 11
Say
“Now you practice, in pairs. One of you is the Asker, one is the Client. Each of you has a page with facts the other does not have. Keep it face down until I say read.”
“Asker: you will ask the Client two questions. Client: answer only what your page allows, in the words on the page. Anything else, you say: I don't have that.”
Do
Hand out one Asker page and one Client page per pair (guide pages 17 and 18). Pages stay face down.
For an odd number, make one trio: the third person listens and notes which fact changed the yes. No names.
When everyone has a page, say 'read' and start the clock at minute 27.
Watch for
Check the Client page is not visible to the Asker.
For a remote session: send each person only their own page as a separate file.
Slide 8 of 12: Practice round: the clock
Clock: minutes 29 to 45 (16 min)Guide page 12
Say
“The clock is on the slide. I will call each mark. I will walk the room and I will not join your conversations, except to ask: what don't you know that someone here does?”
Do
Leave this slide up for the whole round, 16 minutes. Start the timer.
Call each mark aloud: 30, 36, 40, 43, 45.
Walk the room. If a pair is stuck, the first question alone is enough to start. If a pair finishes early, ask them to swap the two questions for two different ones and see which facts they would have missed.
Watch for
Do not read out the Client's facts. The reveal is the next slide.
Anyone can pass. Do not press a quiet pair to speak.
Slide 9 of 12: Practice round: the facts
Clock: minutes 45 to 47 (2 min)Guide page 13
Say
“Here are the facts of the practice case. Eight files go out at 10:00. Six are final and two are pending: 6 + 2 = 8. The two pending files need a 30-minute check that only the client's QA reviewer can do, and the reviewer is free only after 14:00.”
“The receiver overlaps with the sender from 09:45 to 10:00, 15 minutes, and next works after 14:00. The sender has 09:00 to 09:35, 35 minutes, to package it. The client decides.”
Do
Read the facts. Then show the plan that fits and ask each pair whether their yes matches, differs, or needed a change first.
Tally by pair on the run sheet: kept the 10:00 handoff and named the open QA work; needed a change first; cut something or asked someone to stretch. Counts only, no names.
Optional replay if time allows (guide notes): one condition changes and the plan changes.
Watch for
Most yeses will differ in wording. Ask whether the yes names an owner and a time, not whether it matches this plan word for word.
Slide 10 of 12: Debrief questions
Clock: minutes 47 to 52 (5 min)Guide page 14
Say
“Five questions. Talk to your partner for a minute on each, then I will take one or two answers from the room. Nobody has to speak.”
Do
Show the slide. Take one question at a time, about a minute each.
Write one fact that changed a choice today on the board, without a name.
Watch for
If time is short, keep questions 1, 3 and 4.
Keep the debrief on the case and the method. If someone brings a real colleague into it, steer back to the case.
Slide 11 of 12: The AI lens: ask what it assumed
Clock: minutes 52 to 57 (5 min)Guide page 15
Say
“One more thing to notice. Otto opens with a confident yes: all three parts can be ready by Friday noon. If you ask Otto, are you sure, it says yes again. Asking again does not add a fact.”
“Ask what it assumed to make it fit, and it tells you: two extra hours on Thursday evening, and no one approved that. The useful question is the same one we practiced: what did you assume, and who decides?”
“Otto is a fictional AI. Its replies are written for this exercise. This is not a prediction about any real AI product.”
Do
Ask two volunteers to read the questions aloud while you read Otto's lines from the slide.
Ask: what did the second answer give you that the first did not?
Link it back: the same two questions work on an AI's yes and on a person's.
Watch for
Do not generalize about real AI tools. The point is about any confident yes, human or automated.
Otto is a fictional AI; its replies are written for practice and are not a prediction of how any real AI product behaves.
Slide 12 of 12: Takeaway
Clock: minutes 57 to 60 (3 min)Guide page 16
Say
“Three things to take away. Share your half. Ask two questions. Say the yes the facts support, with an owner and a time.”
“On your handout, write one fact that changed your choice today, and one process question you will try in real work. Keep the handout or toss it; nobody collects it.”
“If you want to practice alone, the same free cases are on the page shown on the slide.”
Do
Give people two minutes to write the two lines.
Fill in the aggregate counts on the run sheet, with no names.
Close on time. Say thank you.
Watch for
Do not ask people to share what they wrote. It is theirs.
On a video call
Share the slides. Use breakout rooms of two for the practice round and set a timer for the same marks.
Send each pair page as a separate file. Please send each person only their own pair page.
Bring everyone back to the main room for the facts slide and the debrief. Run the tally in the chat, counts only.
Keep it clean
The cases are fictional. Do not swap in a real colleague, client or incident.
Nothing is scored, ranked or written down by name. Use the pages for practice, not for judging a person.
Otto is a fictional AI. Its replies are written for the exercise and say nothing about any real product.
The free cases
The deck uses two of the eight free cases (C01 as the worked case, C05 for practice). Participants can play all eight on their own afterward.
12 slides, 16:9. Present it from any PDF viewer in full-screen mode.
This guide (A4 or US Letter): a notes page for every slide (pages 5 to 16), a blank run sheet (page 3), a filled example (page 4), the pair pages (pages 17 and 18) and the participant handout (page 19).
This is a draft for review, not a finished product. The guide mentions a plain-text version of the slides that is not offered here.
Every case, person and workplace in this deck is fictional. Otto is a fictional AI; its replies are written for practice and are not a prediction of how any real AI product behaves. Draft for review: not a final product.
Try the two questions yourself. Play a short fictional case, ask for the missing facts and see what changes.
