A guide to Lean Coffee

What is Lean Coffee?

Energise your day with Lean Coffee. Lean Coffee is a tool that we use at Ad Esse Consulting to discuss topics that interest you in a short, yet productive meeting. Our simple 7-step guide enables participants to gather, build an agenda and begin discussing.

How to introduce Lean Coffee into your team

Step 1: Create a Kanban board

Step 2: Brainstorm topics. Capture topic ideas on post-it notes, 1-2 per participant.

Step 3: Pitch topics. Explain your topic to the group in a couple of sentences.

Step 4: Vote and prioritise topics. Everyone gets three votes. You can put multiple votes on a single topic.

Step 5: Discuss. Initially 10 minutes. Plus further 5 minute extensions.

Step 6: Vote on whether to extend the conversation. Update Kanban board.

Step 7: Reflect and capture learning.