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Agile Clock
A proper understanding of Agile Manifesto is VERY important for the introduction of Scrum. The twelve agile principles are less abstract than the four values of the Agile manifesto and can be easily understood.
The game is based on an exercise Pocket-sized Principles.
Zauberstab Übung
Die Teilnehmer müssen den Stab gemeinsam balancierend auf den Zeigefingern auf dem Boden ablegen
- Die Aufgabe scheint einfach, bald zeigen sich jedoch die Tücken.Der Stab geht wie von Zauberhand statt nach unten nach oben
- Anschließend kurze Reflexion über die Zusammenarbeit in der Gruppe
The song of my life
From a list of songs important in the lives of the group members, we will try to guess who chose them.
GPA Kompetenz- und Feedbackkarten nach GPA Syst®
Die GPA-Karten erlauben es, in der beraterischen Arbeit schnell an den persönlichen Werten und Glaubenssätzen anzuknüpfen. So können Überzeugungen und Haltungen und damit die eigenen Filter der Wahrnehmung reflektiert werden.
The Relationship Scan
- Remove any distractions (no phones, tablets, laptops)
- If you are parents (no kids allowed)
- Choose a place where you will not be interrupted
- Set a time - (non-negotiable) 30 min is a good amount of time and doable even for busy people and a place.
If you can make it a ritual:
- Go to your favourite coffee shop together
- Have a morning meeting over a hot chocolate
- Open a really good wine
This is a time for you and your partner to talk about how you both are doing, your relationship, any unfinished conversations or arguments or things that are unsaid, or any needs that are not being met.
Hybrid note storm
A method to capture notes and reflections in hybrid events
Hybrid checkpoint
Punctuate any hybrid event with moments in which participants joining remotely and in-person briefly get together to discuss their experiences at the gathering.
Tech tasks
Send all the people participating in person a link to join the online call.
Tech host create as many breakout rooms as the number of attendees in the smallest cohort, pairing each with one or, if necessary, two, participants from the other group.
Get the Job
This activity aims to help the target group get better understanding on the basics of writing a professional CV. It is important for participants to know how to acknowledge and extract different aspects of their personality and experience and put it in their CV in the form of skills and competencies, so they are relevant for the desired position.
This can support you to track your successes, your
development and thus, help you to write meaningful cv and hopefully present yourself well on an interview.
Bring out the unconscious experience to a conscious level, and shape it in the form of specific skills and competencies, so you can build on them.
Out of comfort zone
This workshop is intended for a big group of people to let them discover the benefits of stepping out of the comfort zone by practical activities
Induction is key
Plan induction for newcomers in order to provide them all the necessary information for them to be equipped and to feel part of the team. It has to be done by a team member (a tutor) and be prepared. It may concern activities, inputs, stakeholders, ways of working, values, rituals, governance, tools, frameworks, ...
Feedback Übung
- Die Teilnehmer finden sich in selbst gewählten Kleingruppen zu viert zusammen.
- Die Teilnehmer geben einander anhand verschiedener Leitfragen Feedback.
- Auswertung der Feedback-Sequenz im Fish-Bowl.