Decision Making & Goal Setting Workshop Activities

Quick Scan

structured sharing negotiation thiagi team teamwork action

Here's an opening for a workshop on negotiation. You may recognize this activity as a modification of our popular Hello activity.

You already know a lot about factors that increase and decrease people's trustworthiness. This is because ever since you were a baby, you have learned through experience who to trust and who to distrust. This activity asks you to think about six people and decide why you trust or distrust them.

Triads

thiagi action idea generation problem identification

Triads is a structured sharing activity for identifying the advantages and disadvantages of an object (examples: iPad, chicken soup) or a process (examples: meditation, conflict management). It also enables the participants to leverage the advantages and to reduce the disadvantages.

Sticks - A Metaphorical Simulation Game

communication team teamwork action

When people interact or communicate with each other, they use certain amount of energy or pressure. Here's an activity that makes participants aware of such energy exchange and helps them explore how to manage this process.

Quick Situations

debriefing thiagi action context teamwork

Here's a debriefing card game that enables participants to reflect on a variety of situations and to come up with suitable action ideas

Whispers

debriefing closing thiagi action team

You can use Whispers as a follow-up activity to any interesting experience among a group of friends. It's my favorite game to informally debrief my colleagues at the airport or during the drive back after a conference.

Switch

thiagi action team team dynamics project management

n a reflective teamwork activity (RTA), the process and the content merge with each other. Participants work through an activity and use the outcomes to evaluate the process they used. Here's an RTA that explores challenges associated with losing and gaining team members in the midst of a project.

Big changes

thiagi action change management

In a brain-pick activity, participants interview people who share a common experience or background. (These people are called informants.) Participants interact with these informants—and with each other—to collect and organize useful information.

This activity uses people who have undergone major organizational changes. Participants interview them to come up with a list of guidelines for coping with change.

The North Wind Blows...

teampedia team opening icebreaker action

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.

Common Experiences

teampedia get-to-know icebreaker opening action

A funny way to get to know each other especially in groups of children or teenagers.

Coriolis Affect

teampedia action team teamwork problem solving

Offers insights into the needs that different team members have for information and detail, how people like to work in either a structured or unstructured approach to problem solving and change, and how quickly and slowly people are willing to move ahead with a plan based on how much they know and understand about the solution.

Secondhand story

teampedia action storymaking

This method teaches participants to work together as a team, even under pressure or constant changes. It requires them to be flexible and creative.