Move Fast Practice

SASU Drill

Listen up.

Use the SASU Drill when you want to learn from others about how your solution might make even more of a difference.

Pitching ideas can be scary. You’ve spent a lot of time and energy creating and improving upon your idea (your baby) and have decided it’s ready to share with your team, colleagues, or even the world. We can quickly get trapped in the mentality that wants to defend our idea at all costs, but sometimes silence can speak volumes and be our greatest ally. Want honest feedback without having to defend your ideas? Use our secret, proprietary feedback methodology SASU, also known as, “share and shut up”.

It’s great to be excited about your idea and chime in on feedback, but what you are missing out on when you are waiting to counter criticism or questions is valuable information to make your idea even more amazing. These questions and comments present an opportunity, they can serve as crucial design input for your solution to help clarify, level-up, or even expand your audience and offer. The Move Fast Practice helps you lean on the wisdom of the crowd and naiveté of your audience to help you improve and move your solution forward—accelerating your time to impact.

Outcomes

  • Practice active listening

  • Valuable feedback from peers

Materials
Pens
Sharpies
Post-its
Notebooks

Tools
SASU Worksheet

Instructions

Step 1
Introduce the SASU Drill. 

Step 2
Inform teams they will present their emerging solutions in the allotted time and then listen to feedback without responding.
Encourage each team to appoint a note-taker.

Step 3
Hand out SASU Worksheets to Wrong Thinkers.

 Step 4
Have each team present while timing each presentation.

Step 5
As a group, respond to the presentations with the following prompts:
What they like most about the emerging solution
What they wish the emerging solution included
What they wonder about the emerging solution

Tips
Set a time limit for feedback.
Film presentations and feedback with a camera or smartphone for the Blitz Report. 

When to use the Drill

How to introduce the drill

Tips for facilitating the Drill