How to use The Cards of Feedback

How to use The Cards of Feedback

The Feedback Card Game is a simple tool that helps teams have meaningful conversations, build engagement, and create safer, stronger group dynamics. By focusing on strengths, we grow as individuals and as a team.

The deck contains 52 cards describing positive traits and qualities. Use them to give appreciative feedback or to discover your own strengths.

1. Quick Feedback – "Fast Version"

Purpose: To give appreciative feedback within the team.

Group size: 3–8 people  |  Time: Around 30 minutes

1. Place all cards face up on a table.
2. Each person picks two cards — one for the person on their left and one for the person on their right — based on strengths they notice and appreciate.
3. Hand over the cards with a short explanation, ideally with a concrete example of when that strength showed up.
4. End with a group reflection on how it felt to give and receive appreciative feedback.

2. You're a Star!

Purpose: To highlight each other's strengths.

Group size: 3–5 people (up to 7 with two decks)  |  Time: 90–120 minutes

Part 1 – Give and receive feedback

1. Each person starts by picking two cards that reflect their own strengths.
2. Then pick two cards for each group member, based on strengths you notice and appreciate in them.
3. One by one, everyone gives their cards with explanations and concrete examples. After one round, the rotation changes so that feedback reaches everyone.
4. In the final rounds, each person explains the cards they picked for themselves.
5. End with a group reflection. If you like, compare the cards you chose for yourself with the ones you received from others.

Part 2 – Color interpretation

The cards come in four colors — red, yellow, green, and blue — based on behavior styles. After the feedback round, look at the colors of the cards you received. Are all colors represented? Which is most dominant? Share your reflections with the group.

• Red: Goal-oriented, direct, efficient
• Yellow: Creative, enthusiastic, visionary
• Green: Caring, inclusive, relationship-focused
• Blue: Analytical, detail-oriented, structured

Note: These colors are inspired by behavioral models like DiSC, and are meant for reflection — not as a formal assessment.

3. Feedforward

Purpose: To identify and develop behaviors we value and want to strengthen.

Group size: 2–6 people  |  Time: Around 60 minutes

1. Each person chooses two cards representing their own strengths and two cards representing traits they want to develop. Place each set face down in separate piles.
2. Share your strengths first — describe the trait and give examples of how it shows up in your behavior. Go around the group twice.
3. Then share your development areas. Describe why you want to strengthen this trait and invite the group to offer tips and concrete examples of behaviors to try.
4. Go around the group twice so everyone has shared their cards and received input.
5. Finish with a final round where everyone shares one new thing they want to practice going forward.