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Library of facilitation techniques
Remote Workshop Activities
Activities suitable for virtual and online workshops and meetings. Get your remote meetings engaging and productive with tools and techniques that foster participation and get everyone contributing.
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Methods (230)
Brain Writing
The sequential building of ideas without evaluation.
Remote pencil pitch
Help your team practice their pitching skills while having fun with this improv activity perfect for remote teams or virtual meetings.
Fortunate Me (variation of Fortunately/Unfortunately)
One person shares a goal, other players offer obstacles. Main player delightfully overcomes those obstacles.
The Stinky Fish Canvas
The Stinky Fish Canvas is a visual way to address the problems teams carry around: the longer we void the conversation, the stinkier our issues get.
True of Me / Spotlight
In gallery view we say something that is true of you (e.g. I have a dog). Everyone that this is true for keeps their camera on; everyone that this is not true for covers their camera. Repeat with a new true statement from someone else in the group.
Blind Drawing
Blind Drawing is an icebreaker game where one person describes an object the other person must then draw with only verbal instructions as a guide.
Story Around the Circle
Creating a story together can be merely for fun, or it can help the team imagine its future or recall its past.
Sit - Stand - Disappear
As a virtual game in Zoom, have people narrow their screen so they only see 3 people in a row. Each person will simultaneously try to have one person sitting, one standing , and one out of the frame in their row.
Game Breaks (Word Search) for Online Facilitation
Team energiser for a virtual classroom or web conference meeting
My Favourite Manager
Participants work individually, assuming the roles of three different people and brainstorming their perceptions of three most favourite managers and three least favourite managers. Later, they work with a partner (and still later, in teams) to prepare a list of dos and don't-s for improving employees' perception of a manager's style.
Hot Air Balloon
A great tool to kick-off ANY workshop! The hot air balloon is a metaphorical method that aims to identify strengths, weaknesses, external forces, stakeholders and goals all in a simple and well-structured process.
The charm is that you’re not relying on another dull matrix but actually going through an imaginary journey that engages us to think outside of our typical thought patterns. Just gather all participants and collect their input step-by-step in the process.