Ethos, Logos, Pathos
The goal of this game is to channel Aristotle’s assessment of your argument.
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What's in a name?
Ice breaker for groups who don't know each other.
Puzzle of Power
An educational game that aims to promote confidence in young people in the search of a job. It is designed to help with boosting their confidence in trying various working experiences and focus on gathering transferable skills, rather than try to find the "perfect job".
Society often forces on young people this idea of having a successful career by the age of 30, which is in most cases an unrealistic scenario. This can result in young people experiencing anxiety, depression, burnout and anger in their attempts to work hard to climb the corporate ladder.
With this game we suggest that any job can support you in your personal and professional development by giving you new experiences and skills you haven't had before.
Daily SCRUM meeting
Even if you don't apply the full SCRUM framework, you can adopt some of its practices.
The daily SCRUM meeting is a short (15 minutes) meeting quite often held at the beginning of each working day with the full team.
SCRUM: Agile Methods to empower teams
Many routines, methods, practices coming from the world of Agile can be applied in any project, bringing benefits to teams and customers.
Note that it shall be done respecting agile value and mindset (collaboration, team spirit, self organisation, customer focus, responsibility,...). Here are few examples you could consider:
Run your activities in sprints of one month, and plan sprint ceremonies to review what has been done, spend some time to improve the way you work ( see practices related to team improvement), and plan your next activities depending on changes and new priorities.Use extensively Visual Management for the team to control what they do. Even if you don’t run sprints, propose regularly some retrospective, some time to reflect on how the team works and how to improve. Define priorities, the 'what’ and let the team self organize and decide the 'how’Let the team contributes to the estimation of the workload (see planning poker practice). Contact the Agile community for further help: https://hub.airbus.com/transformation/ls/community/agile
Moonshot Thinking
To be able to face up to and solve the grand challenges of our time, we need to be audacious in our approach and aspiration.
Transcribe Me
Spoken activities such as presentations or role play conversations are transcribed then analyzed.
Portkey
Remembered objects are used to 'port' between memories
Mirror Exercise
In pairs in front of the class to demonstrate, then everyone.
Care package
Let people show you what matters to them.
Give people a chance to explain their priorities in their own words by inviting them to create a care package for a specific purpose.
Coriolis Affect
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.
Brainwriting
Een manier van brainstormen die creativiteit aanmoedigt en zorgt dat men voortborduurt op de ideeën van anderen.
Brainwriting kan gebruikt worden als onderdeel van een uitgebreidere toekomstverkenning. Lees de oefening Scenario-analyse voor een overzicht van alle opdrachten die hier onderdeel van uitmaken.