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?

A fun energizer where one player must try and eliminate the rest of the team by winking - all without being caught.

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.

This is a tool that you can use thought a whole change process of a team or a company. It is strength oriented and gives you both orientation of the facilitation and summary of the common status of the process.

Team bonding with fun, helps teams move forward through every day challenges. Here is our suggestion. ENJOY!!!

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.

How do we look back, what is still unclear?

The design question provides a new lens to possible solutions and provides in itself a strategy for future change.