Library of facilitation techniques

Proyectar el equipo hacia el futuro

Ice breaker for groups who don't know each other.

This can be used as a retrospective activity, a team reset activity or any time you want to spark some reflection on how you work together as a team.

I was using this approach when facilitating workshop on Continuous Improvement within my organisation. I saw another approach using this method and continuous with this sharing as I feel it was bringing across different message.

Tool for teams to Know Ourselves, Let Others Know How We Work, and Work Well with Others.

quick energizer game to unite a group 

This exercise is great for building empathy amongst team members, and giving each participant a deeper understanding of their colleagues’ backgrounds (particularly great for international or remote teams). It'll also set a casual atmosphere for the workshop ahead.

Define collectively within a team what could be the 'degraded' contexts you would have to face and then how you are going to work in these particular contexts, especially the decision making levels, spaces of freedom ad responsibility.

In this activity, the group will be asked to express a defined quality through drawing. The result will be a mixture of perceptions, and will open the conversation around a particular topic.

Scrum is like a house, where the team can be safe and self-organize. They will build trust and continuous improvement. Respect Scrum team as an ecosystem will help the team evolve and build up teamwork, and the values will come Day by Day, Sprint by Sprint.

In every Sprint, Sprint Retrospective is an excellent chance to inspect and adapt the way of working. There are many formats to help Scrum Master facilitates the Sprint Retrospective. But I always think about the format that can focus on the team environment, the ecosystem. I keep thinking and uphold that idea, and I found the inspiration from the "Parable of the Soils”. Borrow that parable; I create the Sprint Retrospective format “The 4 Soils”. The meaning of this format is to focus on how to help the Scrum team define what is the good/ bad impact to the house o of Scrum. From that, team will have the action or change to improve/ maintain the ecosystem.

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!