Google Yourself
A fast, virtual icebreaker designed for participants to get to know each other and have fun!
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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Analyze the Opposition
Arguments, presentations, strategies, or other plans are sent to other teams for deconstruction in order to find gaps or problems.
Trust Battery
This self-assessment activity allows you and your team members to reflect on the ‘trust battery’ they individually have towards each person on the team, and encourages focus on actions that can charge the depleted trust batteries.
Chair Check-in
This is a very quick and impactful check-in for groups.
Conversation Café
The format of the Conversation Café helps people have calm and profound conversations in which there is less debating and arguing, and more listening. Sitting in a circle with a simple set of agreements and a talking object, small groups will engage in rounds of dialogue with little or no unproductive conflict. As the meaning of their challenge pops into focus, a consensual hunch is formed that will release their capacity for new action.
Altitude
Sometimes it can be difficult to keep a meeting on track when people have a hard time staying focused at the right level. People can find themselves “down in the weeds” or operational details when the meeting is supposed to be strategic, or, conversely, they can find themselves being too abstract and strategic when operational detail is exactly what’s needed.
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.
Make it Rhyme!
Even with established teams, it’s important to get people into the holiday mood and encourage creativity and collaboration.
Assign people into pairs or triads and each pair/triad needs to write one pair of rhyme for the music of a popular song. In this holiday-themed version, we'll ask participants to create a version of Jingle bells.
Whatever the occasion or song, it's a nice twist if they incorporate something in the lyrics that is related to your own company and culture.
Denkanstöße
Alle Teammitglieder beteiligen sich an der Erstellung einer Liste der gemeinsamen Ziele für den nächsten Arbeitsabschnitt (nach Dringlichkeit und Wichtigkeit geordnet).
Team Self-Assessment
This is a structured process designed for teams to explore the way they work together. The tight structure supports team members to be open and honest in their assessment. After reflecting as individuals, the team builds a collective map which can serve as the basis for further discussions and actions. The assessment is based around 6 dimensions. Each one encouraging the team to reflect and analyse a different and crucial element of their behaviour.
Battery Check ... How are YOU?
Battery Check ... How are YOU?
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.