How to handle heterogeneous skill levels?
- have bonus exercises for fast participants
- use the expertise of advanced participants
How do I get everyone on board?
- use Round Robin and similar methods
- pair and group assignments (short / sparingly)
- use brainstorming + affinity grouping
- open questions
- discuss questions in pairs before publicly
- work in pairs instead of alone
- address pre-knowledge of participants
- increase psychological safety
- alternate passive and active phases
- talk less
- address concerns, if participants do not participate voluntarily