The cloud technique helps to convey results and information in a structured and clear way. It thus forms a solid basis for every meeting in the evaluation and realization phase. The cloud technique is a pen and paper presentation that should be used more often than occasionally in preference to the usual Power Point presentation.
In addition, the clouds can also be used very well as wall pictures, which are always visible even without a notebook and beamer and accompany the meeting in a meaningful way.
The cloud technique is very suitable for the evaluation and realization phase and assessment of tasks of light to medium complexity.
From experience, the intended associative background to the cloud is immediately present in all participants and is usually also spontaneously expressed by them. However, the moderator can also provoke these associations quite deliberately and in accordance with the task.
– “Today we want to put ourselves on cloud nine.”
– “Now dark clouds are gathering for us.”
– “It’s pretty cloudy.”
– “Those are some real storm clouds. Soon it will be thundering here.”
– “When are these clouds going to leave?”
– “We’re the cloud pushers?”
– …
For example, if it is a very detailed evaluation or a sequence of meetings, at the end of a sequence, again by questioning or scoring, the participants could decide in which priority (i.e. with which clouds) the work will be continued. And of course, new clouds are always allowed to form during meetings.
