Library of facilitation techniques

Distribute participants in space (or if online, on a whiteboard) to quickly capture some aspects of the group: where are participants from? How familiar are they with the topic? What are their backgrounds?

This simple activity is designed to have each person share things about himself or herself with the group after receiving a gift.

A physical-participation disentanglement puzzle that helps a group learn how to work together (self-organize) and can be used to illustrate the difference between self-organization and command-control management or simply as a get-to-know-you icebreaker. Standing in a circle, group members reach across to connect hands with different people. The group then tries to unravel the “human knot” by unthreading their bodies without letting go of each other people’s hands.

As a management-awareness game to illustrate required change in behavior and leadership on a management level (e.g., illustrate the change from ‘task-oriented’ management towards ‘goal/value-oriented’ management).

A step-by-step process to help teams align on their plans and set focus for an upcoming period - in this case, setting Objectives (Rocks) and Key Metrics for quarterly planning.

A quick, physical improv game that asks participants to embody an object as quickly as they can!

Die Gruppe spielt "Stille Post" und erfährt die Notwendigkeit aktiven Zuhörens.

Get groups to work together on a practical challenge and then debrief the learning points to direct attention to patterns on their teamwork.