Library of facilitation techniques

Exercise to show that thinking in categories and principles is helpful and necessary and at the same time, these categories and principles should be checked on a regular basis.

Would the team be a computer, it would need circuits (meaning information) and processors (meaning routines) to operate their activities.

This sequence allows the team to set up or revisit their information flow and team routines.

Information is power. If you want to empower your team, you need to give them the possibility to get the right information at the right time to operate their activities, but also to develop and grow as a team.

For small groups to get to know each other better

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This can be used as a retrospective activity, a team reset activity or any time you want to spark some reflection on how you work together as a team.

Lego Serious Play idea

Use Y-box for your New Production Development ideation workshop

Want to experience a fun, ever-change game? Bring a round of Calvinball to your next meeting - with a football, deckchairs, rackets, boomerangs, a deck of cards, a hula hoop, pens and paper (anything!) . . . and anyone can change the rules at any time.

A teamwork focused spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs. Participants must come up with creative ways to keep everybody "in" as chairs are removed!

If curiosity and empathy can be a driver of creativity, there is no reason why they need be restricted to the observation of others. A range of technologies increasingly allow us to track, monitor and in doing so discover things about our own behaviours. Much of creativity is centred on making visible the invisible and for this reason spending time experimenting tools which allow us to do this may help us reflect on the potential for digital tools to be part of our creative toolbox.