CandorFive minutes of real conversation, at the start of any meeting.
Most team building asks for an afternoon. Candor asks for one card per person. Open the Work deck, put the card on the shared screen, and go around the team. The cards stay professional, and anyone can pass.
Run it in three steps
Open the Work deck
Start a game from this page. Begin with the Warm-Up pile, written for the first minutes of a meeting.
Share the room
Tap Room at the top of the table. People in the room scan the QR code, people on the call open the link, and every screen shows the same card.
Go around once
Read the card out loud. Each person answers in a sentence or two. Draw the next card, and stop when the time is up.
Where teams use it
Stand-ups and weekly syncs
One card before the status updates. It takes five minutes and sets the tone for the rest of the meeting.
A new hire's first week
Out of Office and Work Stories give a newcomer a way into the team that no org chart can.
Remote and hybrid meetings
Everyone follows the same card on their own screen, so the people on the call never sit out.
Offsites and retros
Team Dynamics and Perspectives open the honest conversations a retro needs.
House rules for work
- Anyone can pass on a card, no reason needed.
- Answers stay in the room.
- Managers answer too, and they go last.
- One or two sentences is a full answer.