Library of facilitation techniques

This activity helps participants to identify some of the problems that causes ineffective meetings.

Often in projects, the learning is all at the wrong end. Usually after things have already gone horribly wrong or off-track, members of the team gather in a “postmortem” to sagely reflect on what bad assumptions and courses of action added up to disaster. What makes this doubly unfortunate is that those same team members, somewhere in their collective experience, may have seen it coming.

A pre-mortem is a way to open a space in a project at its inception to directly address its risks. Unlike a more formal risk analysis, the pre-mortem asks team members to directly tap into their experience and intuition, at a time when it is needed most, and is potentially the most useful.

Most teams, regardless of size, can access data measuring their progress towards goals. Use this group activity to validate the strategic alignment of your KPIs, understand the relationships between them, and brainstorm tests you can perform to validate both.

Close eyes, then everyone looks across circle at another player and if they make eye contact they scream dramatically and leave the game.

Met Scrummen krijg en houd je als team overzicht op de taken in uitvoering.

Deze taken worden onderverdeeld in (1) To Do, (2) In Proces en (3) Done.

De kern van je boodschap in 1 minuut kunnen presenteren zonder ondersteuning van audiovisuele middelen.

In dit voorbeeld presenteren studenten binnen de cursus "De Handelend Mens" een voorbereidende opdracht aan elkaar. Op basis van deze pitches worden onderzoeksonderwerpen bepaald en onderzoeksgroepen gevormd.

Individuals express their response to a statement or idea by standing closer or further from a central object. Used with teams to reveal system, hidden patterns, perspectives.

Arguments, presentations, strategies, or other plans are sent to other teams for deconstruction in order to find gaps or problems.

When we are given a problem our reflex is to find answers. But it can be difficult to leave the comfort zone and to come up with creative answers. This exercise will encourage to think out of the box.

A fun, dynamic game useful for introducing topics related to decision making, conflict resolution, win-win scenarios and the importance of clear communication of goals.

Understanding and analyzing a piece of advice are important activities. Here is a game that requires the participants to analyze the features associated with different pieces of advice.

Build common understanding about culture, customer, future, strategy or next needed steps for a team or organisation based on the Agile Manifesto.