Stay and Stray

Stay and Stray

1. Provide groups of 3 to 5 with an open-ended task.
2. Each team works together to complete a product for the task.
3. At a given point, ask teams to have one person “stay” at their home base with the product to explain the team's work to visitors.
4. The rest of the team members “stray” to the home bases of other groups to learn new information; allot about 2 to 5 minutes per rotation.
5. After visiting all groups, home teams regroup and share new information gathered.
6. Groups discuss new ideas and decide whether or not they will integrate them into their work.

Note: At every signal to rotate to a new home base, a different team member goes back to stay with the group’s work and everyone else (including the person who first stayed) moves on to view the next product. This allows everyone to see all but one product.