Code of Conduct
This game has been designed to help set the right culture in a group of people and help build mutual trust. It will empower all participants to act upon the results of this game.
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Show me your values
Instead of talking about values that are underlying of the organizations' employees are encouraged to show these values as pictures from magazines. This way it is easier to show, tell and understand perceptions.
Reaching consensus around several alternatives
A polling process for any workshop where a decision between several alternatives is hard to reach
Empires
This activity could work between sessions as an energiser or an icebreaker. It builds on participants' memory and communication.
User Day-parting
This exercise supports a user-centred approach to product and service innovation. Teams create an imaginary user (a persona), map out an average day in his or her life, and identify the challenges that he or she experiences. Teams then use this to brainstorm new products or services that could help with those challenges. Finally, sketches or prototypes of the best ideas are quickly developed presented back to for feedback.
multi-voting
Quick, easy and democratic way to visually prioritize choices/ideas
Quick Reviews in 2 minutes
Easy and fun ways to review content or atmosphere at the end or in between group activity, in 2 minutes.
Email Questions
A virtual asynchronous start for an issues or problem solving workshop.
Giants, wizards, elves
It's a running around energiser which surely help participants to get their energy level higher.
Little Known Facts - I
People enjoy learning little-known facts (LKFs) about each other. (E.g. I have a twin brother / I always need to know which direction North is / etc.). They also enjoy revealing such facts to total strangers--perhaps because it makes them feel like celebrities. Participants guess LKFs about other people by asking Yes/No questions.
Back to Back
This is an energetic improv game that can be used anytime during a training session. My favourite time to use it is at the end of a session for debriefing.
Participants pair up and stand back-to-back. The facilitator asks a question. The participants turn around and face each other and take turns sharing their responses.
Feed forward
An engaging variation on a feedback activity that focuses on future changes and positive action, rather than dwelling on what went wrong.