Suggested Exercises Using the Card Deck
Start with Your Objectives. Pick three Objectives first, then customize with Audience or Message cards and build from there.
Start with Strategies. Pick one or two Strategies first, then customize with Audience or Message cards and build from there.
Start with Current Tactics: For what Objectives do these tactics make sense? Are those the right objectives for your mission?
Where is Comms Most Essential? In other words, where would your nonprofit’s mission fail without a communications strategy to make results happen? Build your plan there first.
Limit the Cards in Your Hand. If you could only use 5 what would they be? 7? 10?
Scale Up and Down. Lay out the cards representing your current workload. Given current or planned resources, how would you do more or less?
Randomizer. Pick a random selection of cards and talk about how they could work together (helps educate people about terms and think more creatively)
Mind Map It. Connect the cards with pipe cleaners or string or tape them on a white board and draw the connections to make it feel more like a mind map.
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