Concept sketch
A concept sketch is a fast freehand drawing.
To be used in Ideation phase.
Library of facilitation techniques
find the right tool for your next session
1,599 results
Methods (1493)
Draw me a cat 😸
A quick drawing activity to better understand neurodiversity.
Virtual Mexican Wave
A quick and effective activity to energize your group at a virtual meeting by adapting the Mexican Wave to an online setting.
Giant Whoop!
This is a quick final closing activity that leaves a group with a quick adrenelin boost. You could use it at any time as an energiser, although I usually use it to close an event.
Jigsaw Puzzle
This game is useful as a side-activity during breaks, as it encourages starting conversations between random people.
Forced Choice
Invite participants to identify and reflect on which parts of their identities they bring into regular interactions.
Ethos, Logos, Pathos
The goal of this game is to channel Aristotle’s assessment of your argument.
What's in a name?
Ice breaker for groups who don't know each other.
Puzzle of Power
An educational game that aims to promote confidence in young people in the search of a job. It is designed to help with boosting their confidence in trying various working experiences and focus on gathering transferable skills, rather than try to find the "perfect job".
Society often forces on young people this idea of having a successful career by the age of 30, which is in most cases an unrealistic scenario. This can result in young people experiencing anxiety, depression, burnout and anger in their attempts to work hard to climb the corporate ladder.
With this game we suggest that any job can support you in your personal and professional development by giving you new experiences and skills you haven't had before.
Daily SCRUM meeting
Even if you don't apply the full SCRUM framework, you can adopt some of its practices.
The daily SCRUM meeting is a short (15 minutes) meeting quite often held at the beginning of each working day with the full team.
SCRUM: Agile Methods to empower teams
Many routines, methods, practices coming from the world of Agile can be applied in any project, bringing benefits to teams and customers.
Note that it shall be done respecting agile value and mindset (collaboration, team spirit, self organisation, customer focus, responsibility,...). Here are few examples you could consider:
Run your activities in sprints of one month, and plan sprint ceremonies to review what has been done, spend some time to improve the way you work ( see practices related to team improvement), and plan your next activities depending on changes and new priorities.Use extensively Visual Management for the team to control what they do. Even if you don’t run sprints, propose regularly some retrospective, some time to reflect on how the team works and how to improve. Define priorities, the 'what’ and let the team self organize and decide the 'how’Let the team contributes to the estimation of the workload (see planning poker practice). Contact the Agile community for further help: https://hub.airbus.com/transformation/ls/community/agile
Moonshot Thinking
To be able to face up to and solve the grand challenges of our time, we need to be audacious in our approach and aspiration.