Doodling Together
Create wild, weird and often funny postcards together & establish a group's creative confidence.
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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Happiness exercise
This exercise is a simple application of the principles of Appreciative Inquiry.
Heard, Seen, Respected (HSR)
You can foster the empathetic capacity of participants to “walk in the shoes” of others. Many situations do not have immediate answers or clear resolutions. Recognizing these situations and responding with empathy can improve the “cultural climate” and build trust among group members. HSR helps individuals learn to respond in ways that do not overpromise or overcontrol. It helps members of a group notice unwanted patterns and work together on shifting to more productive interactions. Participants experience the practice of more compassion and the benefits it engenders.
Human objects
A quick, physical improv game that asks participants to embody an object as quickly as they can!
Hybrid Team Canvas
The Hybrid Team Canvas is a framework and tool to design a hybrid or remote-first team culture.
Icebreaker: Original
Ask participants to create or come up with a ice-breaker question. The icebreaker question must not be a cliché question and or commonly used.
Icebreaker: The Group Map
Ask people to place themselves on an imaginary map laid out in the room representing the country according to where they grew up. Ask them to share one internal value they got from that place, and why is that important for them. Encourage people to share a short story if they want
I Like | I Wish | I Wonder
Teams need to explore, test and try new things to innovate. Early efforts will be improved and progress when feedback is given and received. Feedback is a key part of any project development and crucial to the iterative process.
It's important to have a learning/growth mindset to see new possibilities and a framework in place to provide boundaries and a safe container for both the receiver and the giver of the feedback at hand.
A process such as I Like, I Wish, I Wonder can support teams (big and small) to collect feedback quickly. Can be run online or face-to-face. A Miro template is attached below.
Journalists
This is an exercise to use when the group gets stuck in details and struggles to see the big picture. Also good for defining a vision.
LEGO metaphors
A hands-on and creative icebreaker that uses LEGO bricks to help teams express ideas, challenges, and personal insights through metaphors.
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.
Online Meeting Etiquette
Set the expectations for behavior and conduct you have for participants at the beginning of your online meeting with the Online Meeting Etiquette checklist.