Team Alignment Workshop Activities

cultureQs (Information on cultureQs and how to obtain materials: http://cultureqs.com) 

cultureQs is a Change and Integration accelerator activity that uses powerful Questions to inspire participants to reflect on the foundations of their beliefs, attitudes and behaviours.

Various ways to have participants 'map' themselves in response to a facilitator's prompt. See also 'constellations'

The “Penny Game” allows the team to learn through self-organization and observation; specifically, that smaller batches can deliver value to the customer faster. In addition, the game demonstrates that the size of the batches has a direct impact on the delivery. With a large batch, the Workers feel more pressure on themselves to get the batch to the next Worker; with smaller batches, the pressure is lower but more constant.

Participants to decide on concrete way forward in a changing/new context, to stay ahead of the game.

Come up with the world's worst way to approach something. Play as a game and/or use to generate productive ideas

In Network Relationship Patterns, participants identify how their group describes its work, how it actually works, and how it wants to work.

This structure clarifies current relationship patterns to map a transition toward new ones. It is designed to make conversations about intangible group dynamics easier by providing a shared language for describing and visualizing patterns.

Participants use simple cards to represent different roles, behaviors, or connection types in a network (for example, who initiates, who bridges, who withdraws, who amplifies).

By arranging and rearranging these cards, groups can explore how influence flows, where bottlenecks exist, and how new connection patterns might improve collaboration. This structure helps teams better understand relational dynamics and intentionally shift toward more productive and inclusive network patterns.

It brings to life LS Principle #7, Emphasize Possibilities: Believe Before You See.

Group sits in circle, one chair in the middle for VOS

Vote with your feet exercise to set up insightful conversations and activities