Value exercisesGenovate Toolkit

WHAT

Value exercise is a tool that encourages a discussion about your values, your team’s values, your organization’s values, and society’s values. The exercises can be a good way to begin a seminar or session, as an “ice breaker”, and as a way to stimulate new thinking. It can be varied in a number of ways, depending on issues, what statements are important to explore, and what prior knowledge and understanding participants have.

WHY

Value exercises expose our norms and values, while at the same time provide an open space that encourages peo- ple to examine as well as change their behaviours and attitudes.


Time

People

Dificulty
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Phases

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HOW

Prepare
  • The facilitator presents a statement and describes the alter- natives and which corner represents which alternative.
  • The participants go to the corner they feel they can best relate to.
  • The facilitator asks the participants to explain what motivated them to choose that particular corner: ”What made you choose that corner?” ”How does this alternative relate to your work/your life?” ”What consequences do this alternative lead to in a bigger perspective?” Ask the questions several times to make the participants really explore their values and their consequences.
  • If participants want to change corners after listening to other people explain their reasons for choosing a corner, they can do this. Examples of statements and alternatives: We are gender equal... Corner 1...in working life Corner 2...at home and in personal relations between women and men. Corner 3...within politics. Corner 4...open corner. Participants who do no agree with any of the alternatives (but they still need to declare their standpoint). Gender differences should be sustained, because... Corner 1...life gets more exciting if women and men are not equal. Corner 2...men can help with technical issues and women can help with emotional issues. Corner 3...men and women are essentially different. Corner 4...open corner. Women do not participate as much in research and innovation systems than men, because... Corner 1...they are not interested in technology. Corner 2...they are interested in other kinds of innovations, not technical ones. Corner 3...they don’t want to work twice as hard to prove worthy. Corner 4...open corner.
Reflect
  • What did we learn?
  • How can we and our collegues contribute to a positive change of attitudes and behaviours based on this?

Methods

Gender app

x h xx persons
WHAT

This is a tool for gender mainstreaming collaboratively created by two universities and some industry stakeholders, a gender mainstreaming checklist. The tool is designed to facilitate the integration of a gender and diversity perspective in projects and other activities. The app contains a checklist of practical gender mainstreaming in projects or other activities.

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Gender observations

2 h 1-3 persons
WHAT

Gender observations is a tool to explore and bring to life differences in how women and men act and react in everyday interactions.

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Gender system analysis

2-40 h 1-5 persons
WHAT

Despite a growing awareness of gender inequality there are still obsolete structures and practices within e.g. innovation systems. Acker for this reason proposed analysing gender systems in relation to structures, interactions, symbols, and identities.

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Value exercises

WHAT

Value exercise is a tool that encourages a discussion about your values, your team’s values, your organization’s values, and society’s values. The exercises can be a good way to begin a seminar or session, as an “ice breaker”, and as a way to stimulate new thinking. It can be varied in a number of ways, depending on issues, what statements are important to explore, and what prior knowledge and understanding participants have.

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World café

3-4 h 6-xx persons
WHAT

World café is a tool that invites stakeholders and other interested parties to explore questions and issues.

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Critical Incident Technique

2-4 h 1-7 persons
WHAT

Developed by Flanagan in 1954, the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is originally a technique for collecting observations on human behaviour to identify a particular event that somehow has been critical, either positively or negatively. The technique can be used in interviews, in focus groups, or in workshop settings within a work group.

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Personas

2-40 h 2-7 persons
WHAT

Personas are fictional descriptions of a person whose goals, feelings, perceptions, experiences, etc. are relevant to the work group it is designed for. It is a commonly implemented design method to make the design team emphasize user experiences.

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Action plan for change

X h X persons
WHAT

An action plan helps us go from visions to reality. It describes the way your team will use its knowledge, strategies, and competences to meet the objective of a gender equality and diversity aware innovation system. An action plan consists of a number of short- and long-term actions.

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