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.
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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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.
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.
Forced Analogy
People compare something (e.g. themselves, their company, their team) to an object.
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.
Whiteboard Rotation
Using multiple digital whiteboards, participants float to different whiteboards to add their thoughts, contributions, or questions. Final whiteboards are discussed and reviewed.
Want - Have - Don't Want - Don't Have
Want, Have, Don't Want, Don't Have is a Sprint Retrospective format based on coaching exercises, helping people who practice them focus on what they want to get and what they don't want to have.
I'll take that fear
People share a fear, it is received by another, and then they are asked to share the advice that a trusted mentor or friend would give them.
The Time Machine
Encourage creative thinking and getting to know each other better with a short round of 'time travel' questions to each of your participants.
Two Lies and a Truth
This is a well-known and simple ice-breaker, designed to get to know the other members of your team well, as well as practicing your own poker face!
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.