Decision Making & Goal Setting Workshop Activities

Virtual Video Vignettes

Two teams separately prepare and act out the same basic roleplay. Other participants watch these role-plays, compare the two versions, and evaluate them.

Here's what the three letters of the acronym stand for: constructive, immediate, and active. Whenever someone shares some news about positive things that happened to her, react constructively, immediately, and actively. This strengthens your relationship and makes both of you happy. To learn more about this approach, read the handout at the end of the game instructions.

Friend or Foe?

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Any product change, project plan, change management initiative requires assessment of and approach to working with stakeholders, a term we use to describe anyone who can impact a decision. Stakeholders often slow or block change; in other cases, they bust obstacles and accelerate progress. To increase your likelihood of success, check out this activity from visual thinker Yuri Mailshenko and identify your stakeholders to understand how they feel about your work.

Interdisciplinary Shuttle

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Door deze activiteit maken studenten kennis met andermans discipline en de bijbehorende sterke en zwakke punten.

Triangulatie opdracht

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Met de triangulatiemethode kunnen studenten een onderwerp van gemeenschappelijke interesse vinden.

The Iceberg Model

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The Iceberg Model is a diagnostic tool that is used to analyze systemic structures and identify blind spots that cause a team/organization/society to collectively reproduce results that no one wants.

Near and Dear

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Have you ever been in the middle of a discussion with a group that is trying to reach a decision about something and realized that you actually don’t have much of a stake in what happens? Or, have you ever been advocating for a group to take things in a certain direction and notice that others (for whom the outcome will not be relevant) are arguing just as passionately as you are?

Many times when we are trying to make decisions as a group, involved parties care about the outcome, but at varying levels. This tool helps identify who actually has a stake in the outcome and allows a group to get perspective on which voice(s) should be a priority in the decision process.

Interdisciplinaire onderzoeksvragen

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Studenten brainstormen met behulp van een mind map om zo tot een interdisciplinaire onderzoeksvraag met sub-vragen op te stellen.