# Quick Scenario Cards

> A 45-minute version of scenario planning: teams combine two uncertainty cards into four futures and test one decision against each. Duration: 45 minutes. Group size: 6–60 people. Setting: Indoor. Below you will find a step-by-step guide, the materials and facilitator tips.

URL: https://www.bravodays.com/en/team-building-library/quick-scenario-cards
Last updated: 2026-10-21
Publisher: BravoDays (https://www.bravodays.com)

## Key facts

- **Duration:** 45 minutes
- **Group size:** 6–60 people
- **Setting:** Indoor
- **Energy level:** Calm
- **Materials:** Prepared uncertainty cards (for example: demand grows fast / slowly; regulation tightens / stays the same), A large sheet with a two-by-two grid per team, Markers and a timer
- **Price:** Free, no sign-up

## Objective

Practise thinking in several possible futures instead of one forecast, and find decisions that hold up in most of them.

## Materials

- Prepared uncertainty cards (for example: demand grows fast / slowly; regulation tightens / stays the same)
- A large sheet with a two-by-two grid per team
- Markers and a timer

## Step by step

1. Agree one decision the team faces, such as entering a new market or hiring ahead of demand.
2. Each team draws two uncertainty cards and writes them on the axes of its grid, creating four futures.
3. Give each future a short, memorable name and two or three sentences describing it.
4. For each future, ask: does our decision still make sense here? Mark it with a tick, a cross or a question mark.
5. Discuss which version of the decision works in most futures, and what signals would tell you which future is arriving.
6. Teams share their most surprising insight with the whole group.

## Facilitator tips

- Choose uncertainties that are genuinely open; if everyone agrees what will happen, it is not an uncertainty.
- Avoid labelling futures as "good" and "bad"; each should be plausible and interesting.

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- [Team building library](https://www.bravodays.com/en/team-building-library)
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