Team building and team health
9 Dimensions
Nine areas on a 3×3 grid and four dot colours. In two minutes everyone marks on their phone how things are going, then tells the group about one strong and one weaker area - as much as they want to share.
What is 9 Dimensions?
You pick a set of areas: personal life (adventure, work, health, family and friends and more) or how the team works (communication, trust, role clarity, deadlines and more). Every name can be changed. The grid is saved in your library, and you run sessions from it by sharing a code or a QR code.
Participants stick dots on their phones: green - going great, yellow - needs a little work, red - needs a lot of work, blue - not a priority right now. Then each person picks two areas to talk about, and you run the round, passing the floor one by one. The screen shows only the group map, never one person's grid.
See how it works
Dots on the phones, the group map on the screen
Features
Key capabilities
A 3×3 grid your way
Two ready-made sets to start from: areas of life and areas of teamwork. Rename any of the nine areas and add a short hint to each.
Four dot colours
Participants pick a colour and tap the areas like a sheet of stickers. A blue dot is an honest way to say "not now".
Two minutes for a first reaction
A countdown on the phone nudges people to go with their first impression instead of weighing every dot.
Private by design
The trainer and the projector see only how many dots of each colour an area got. A name appears only next to the areas its owner chose to talk about.
A sharing round
Pass the floor one person at a time, with a timer for each. The speaker's phone shows it is their turn and reminds them of their two areas.
Group map and debrief points
See at once where the room agrees, where it is most split and where it sees the most work. The map goes on the projector and into a CSV file.
Step by step
How it works
Pick a set of areas
Areas of life or areas of teamwork - or nine of your own.
Run a session
Share a code or a QR code; participants join from their phones.
Dots and two picks
In two minutes everyone sticks their dots and picks what to talk about.
Round and debrief
Pass the floor one by one, then discuss the group map together.
Use cases
What it’s good for
- A warm-up at the start of a training or a workshop
- Kicking off a new team: get to know each other faster
- A team health check before a retrospective
- A team meeting after a reorganisation or a change of leader
- Group coaching or mentoring sessions
- The same check a few months later: what has changed
White label
Your brand for participants
On the paid plans you can add your company name, logo and colors, and during every session participants will see your brand instead of Verbalu.
Try “9 Dimensions” in Verbalu
Create a free account and run your first engaging session today. No card, no installation.