& Tossed Salad
Quick Tips for Team Leaders
SERIES ARTICLE
By Jeff Oltmann
Oregon, USA
QuickTip – Advanced Parking Lot
Many of us know how to use a parking lot during a meeting, but you can enhance the technique when the meeting participants are discussing what actions to take. When the group agrees to park an idea or option, do more than stick it in a general parking lot. Use a chart like the one below to decide on the spot the type of follow up that is most appropriate.
QuickTip – Tossed Salad
Tossed Salad combines elements of brainstorming and small group work. It helps a large group draw out everyone’s best ideas, refine them, and select a few for further action.
When to Use
Use this technique when you want to make sure that the group considers ideas from all participants. It requires some supplies – small cards to write on and a container (the “salad bowl”) to collect them.
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Editor’s note: This series of “Quick Tips” articles is by Jeff Oltmann, experienced program and technology executive and principal of Synergy Professional Services, LLC in Oregon, USA. The Quick Tips offer simple approaches and models for problem analysis, gathering ideas and input from team members, facilitation and taking action. The tips offered in this series were identified or developed over two decades of helping program, project and team leaders get things done in faster, more agile ways. Learn more about Jeff Oltmann in his author profile at the end of this article.
How to cite this paper: Oltmann, J. (2022). Advanced Parking Lot & Tossed Salad, Quick Tips for Team Leaders, series article, PM World Journal, Vol. XI, Issue XI, November. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pmwj123-Nov2022-Oltmann-advanced-parking-lot-tossed-salad-quicktips.pdf
About the Author
Jeff Oltmann
Oregon, USA
Jeff Oltmann is a seasoned leader with over 30 years of experience advising clients, managing successful technology programs, and developing new products. His specialties include strategy deployment, operational and project excellence, and project portfolio management. As principal consultant at Synergy Professional Services, Jeff advises leaders and teams in diverse sectors including healthcare, research, bioscience, and technology product development.
Jeff is the founder of the Portfolio and Project Leaders Forum. He is also on the graduate faculty of the Division of Management at Oregon Health and Science University and was previously on executive staff at IBM. He teaches portfolio, program, and project management and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).
Jeff welcomes your questions and ideas. You can contact him at jeff@spspro.com or read previous articles at www.spspro.com/article-library.
