Breaking into groups during meetings redistributes the cognitive load of understanding, especially when you have more than seven people in a meeting. If you’ve got eight, break into two groups of four. Got 15? Do three groups of five. This pattern easily scales into large group workshops, such as the one I facilitated for the Holocaust Museum. We had seven groups of up-to-seven people thinking through specific digital exhibition strategies. After two hours, we had come to agreement, as a group of 50(!), about three unique, viable approaches to solving a complex problem.
