Individual Applications:

• Use as a checklist for projects: Are you considering all quadrants?
• Diagnose your problems by visiting each quadrant for ideas
• Create an outline or “Mind Map” for a process
• Gap analysis: What is missing? What have I overlooked?
• Personal Planning: What do I need to work on to be more effective?
• Create a visual map of a plan by laying out the words in order of sequence
• Use as a priority management tool to better sort out what is most important
• Combine words for new ideas and concepts
• Use as a writing prompt for any communication
• Organize and prepare for a feedback discussion
• Use as a text selection tool before you communicate

• Help associates brainstorm new ways of looking at a situation
• Create an outline or “Mind Map” for a meeting
• Set ground rules for a meeting
• Discussion prompter for what is most important in a project
• Opener: What do you bring to this team?
• A visual map of a meeting or strategy
• Gap analyzer for groups: What have we left out that fits into this situation?
• Use to create a balance score card/ metrics of your group objectives
• Look and identify team need and roles
• Prioritize and assign roles of the team

• Put a photo in the middle, then cover with words that describe it
• Poetry prompter
• Randomize words and use as a stimulant during a conversation
• Book mark
• Create a thought for the day
• Decorate your cubicle
• Describe co-workers favorites
• Decorate the fridge
• Invent your own application! If you do, please let us know.

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