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Phillips 66

Background

Does the name of this activity make you want to gas up your car? Do you have a sudden

urge to buy stock in an oil company? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions,

you may be a little strange.

The Phillips 66 activity has nothing to do with gasoline, the Phillips Petroleum Com-

pany, or your personality. It has a lot to do, however, with the name of the person who

devised this activity: Donald Phillips.

Phillips (1948), a former president of Hillsdale College, created Phillips 66 (also

known as the Phillips 66 Buzz Session) to help increase audience participation in large

groups.

Objectives

• To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible


• To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas


• To involve a large audience in small group brainstorming

Participants

Small groups of six people each

Materials, Supplies, and Equipment

• For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chart
  sheets


• For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots
  (^1 ⁄ 2 ” diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it®Notes


• One overhead projector, transparency markers, and at least one transparency sheet for
  each small group

Time

45 minutes

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