Pick the target user

Say what the room will leave with and point to the three steps on the wall. Then ask: "In one sentence: what do you need from the next ninety minutes?" Take answers in any order, not round the circle. If someone passes, move on.

Levels: five levels, from one person through their team, their organisation and their field to everyone

Before you start, say who the decider is: the one person who makes the call at the end. Draw a ladder on the wall with the problem at the top, and zoom out through five levels, from one person through their team, their organisation and their field to everyone. At each level, give the room two minutes of silence to write who has this problem there, one person or role per sticky note: "a manager in their first month", not "managers". Then everyone reads the ladder and stars the two people they'd most want to build for first.

The full Powers of Ten exercise

Statements: four

Take the two or three most-starred people from the ladder. Mark a line on the floor, "strongly agree" at one end and "strongly disagree" at the other. Read four statements about them, one at a time, such as "A new manager hits this problem every week" or "We could reach a new manager within a month." For each one, everyone walks to their spot at once. Look at the spread, say what you see, and ask one person from each end what put them there. Nobody argues: the splits are what the decider needs to hear.

In the 90 also: After the last statement, write the two widest splits at the top of the wall. They're what the decider weighs next.

The full Spectrum Mapping exercise

Questions the decider asks first: two questions

Everyone writes their pick on a card: the person, the moment in their week that matters most, and one line on why. The cards go up in silence. The decider reads them all, then asks the room two questions before choosing, such as "Who here has watched this person hit the problem?" The decider circles one person on the ladder, names the moment, and says why in a sentence or two. Then ask the room: "Can anyone not work with this?" Hear them out. The call stays with the decider.

The full Target Selection exercise

Each result the room produced needs an owner. The owner writes "I will [what] by [when]" on a card, reads it out and sticks it under the result. Only owners speak. If a result has no owner, say so: "Nobody owns this yet." Write that on the wall too, so it leaves the room as an open item rather than a quiet gap.

In the 90 also: Ask each owner one question: "What could stop this?" One sentence back. If the answer is another person, that person is in the commitment too.