Top 10 Ways to Use Venn Diagrams
Venns are used in the following ways:

1. As a powerful self-discovery tool.
Who are you? What's most important about you or to you? Use the Venn Diagram as a tool to find out!
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are the three most important parts of me?"
Step 2. Write these three elements, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 3. Ask yourself "What do I feel when have Circle A and Circle B occuring together?"
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

2. To easily identify the cause or source of something.
What's makes you happy? What is the source of profit? Why is Amazon.com so successful? Good questions! And, now you can use a Venn Diagram to help identify why things work the way they do.
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are the 3 things/elements that I need in place to feel happy?"
Step 2. Write these three elements, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 3. Ask yourself "What do I have when have Circle A and Circle B occuring together?"
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

3. To quickly convey a message or vision.
Are you the owner of a company? Are you a coach who wants a client to get something quickly? All yo have to do is to create a venn that illustates they key points you are trying to make. Perhaps you are asking for a change or want to illustrate the vision or priorities of the company.
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are the 3 things/elements the person should focus on?"
Step 2. Write these three elements, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 3. Ask yourself "What occurs when Circle A and Circle B occur together?"
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

4. As a visual reminder to support change/focus.
Venn Diagrams are great to print out and post on your wall or in your daytimer. Life's so busy and distracting, it's nice to have a simple diagram that provides you with a path and focus as you reorient around what matters most to you!
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are the 3 most important things in my life?"
Step 2. Write these three elements, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 3. Ask yourself "What do I feel when both Circle A and Circle B occur together?"
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

5. As a staff/client individual exercise.
If you want to provide an exercise for your clients, staff or students, you can ask them to create a Venn Diagram themselves. Walk them through the process and help them select the words that fit best for them.

6. To instantly create teamwork.
If you want to get people working together and building a team, Venn Diagrams are a great way to do that. You can set up groups of people and give each of them some blank venn diagram forms and ask them to solve a problem, develop a process, design a plan or whatever is important to the group. It's amazing how well this can work to get people talking but also focusing their efforts/discussion into a product -- the Venn Diagram.

7. As an innovative way to take notes.
If you are listening to a client and want to organize what they are saying, you can use a Venn Diagram and fill in the blanks.

8. As a strategy-creator.
Venn Diagrams can also be used to create strategy.
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are the 3 things I am REALLY trying to accomplish?
Step 2. Write these three items, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 4. Ask yourself "How can I offer that will cause Circle A and Circle B to occur?"
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

9. As a prioritizer.
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are my 3 most important personal values?"
Step 2. Write these three values, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 3. Ask yourself "What goals would express these overlapping values (Circle A and B)?
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

10. As a way to solve problem
Have a problem? Can't solve it? Try using a Venn diagram!
Step 1. Ask yourself "What are the 3 symptoms or elements of the problem?"
Step 2. Write these three elements, once each, in the 3 circles.
Step 3. Ask yourself "What can I do differently to resolve each overlapping set of symptoms? (Circle A and Circle B)
Step 4. Repeat Step 3 with Circle B and C and with Circle C and A.
Step 5. Fill in the overlapping areas with your responses.

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