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Google Yourself
A fast, virtual icebreaker designed for participants to get to know each other and have fun!
Emoji Holiday Song Game
This activity is a perfect holiday-themed icebreaker or energizer that combines creativity, quick thinking, and festive cheer. It encourages engagement, collaboration, and lighthearted fun, making it ideal for team-building, holiday parties, or virtual gatherings. By using emojis, it taps into visual problem-solving skills while keeping the atmosphere playful and inclusive.
The Thing from the Future
Help a group to time-travel and tap their imagination by fictional objects.
With tangible objects and the stories your participants make up w/ them you'll get so much richer inputs and context to inform joint visioning / strategizing:
The future doesn't look that far away when you can pick it off the shelf.
Cube Collaboration-sulla via dei bisogni
Ogni individuo possiede bisogni soddisfatti e non soddisfatti. Questi bisogni sono universali all'essere umano. Attraverso una comunicazione empatica e non violenta possiamo esplorare tali bisogni per elaborare delle richieste e non pretese a tale scopo. M.Rosemberg
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.