The North Wind Blows...
The game enables participants to get to know each other and have fun at the same time. Also since it takes a lot of moving it can be used as an energiser too.
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Group Development Stage Directions
Different teams receive envelopes labeled with the names of different stages in the development of a team. Participants brainstorm guidelines for facilitating a team at a specific stage, record the guidelines on a card, and place the card inside the appropriate envelope. Teams rotate the envelopes and generate guideline cards for other stages in the life cycle of a team. During the evaluation round, team members comparatively score the guideline cards generated by other teams.
Missing Step
Many training topics involve procedures or processes (e.g. Team formation process; a product launching process, etc.). Here's an interactive lecture design that encourages the participants to go beyond the content of the presentation and critically examine the steps of the procedure or phases of the process.
Use This Strategy When:
* The training content is a procedure with different steps or a process with different phases.
* The participants know something about the procedure or process and can conduct a group discussion.
Cause and Effect Charting
A quick analysis to identify cause and effect of a problem
Gradients of Agreement
A scale upon which to measure participants' levels of agreement with a given statement or course of action.
World Cafe
The World Cafe is designed primarily to generate collective knowledge sharing, webs of personal relationships, and new possibilities for action.
5 choices
1. Remain a victim
2. Reframe it / change perspective
3. Change it
4. Accept it
5. Leave it
A Day in the Life
Understand your users day-to-day. To better design for people, try shadowing them for a day. By observing someone in their own context, you'll notice details about their life - the way they engage with people, pr their routine - that you'd otherwise never see.
Stakeholder's View
Studenten ervaren hoe het is om met stakeholders in dialoog te gaan wanneer er conflicterende belangen zijn. Door het perspectief van verschillende stakeholders aan te nemen verdiepen ze zich in de uiteenlopende posities. Voorbereidend op het gesprek leren studenten de motieven van verschillende stakeholders te analyseren en te begrijpen hoe je het best kan reageren op verschillende reacties.
Buzz group
This process is used to activate a group of any size to take part in a process.
Gif Oracle
The group tells made-up fortunes inspired by a random gif
Virtual Mexican Wave
A quick and effective activity to energize your group at a virtual meeting by adapting the Mexican Wave to an online setting.