Library of facilitation techniques

A method to create transparency around team roles and issues

A funny way to get to know each other especially in groups of children or teenagers.

Invite participants to identify and reflect on which parts of their identities they bring into regular interactions.

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.

Dragon Dreaming is a process for creating and achieving collective dreams, which involves four phases: dreaming, planning, doing, and celebrating.

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.

In pairs in front of the class to demonstrate, then everyone.

Offers insights into the needs that different team members have for information and detail, how people like to work in either a structured or unstructured approach to problem solving and change, and how quickly and slowly people are willing to move ahead with a plan based on how much they know and understand about the solution.

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

A Morphological chart is a method that splits a product/solution into smaller chunks that can then be analyzed and ideated for independently. Afterwards those ideas can be mixed and matched to develop different solutions.

To be used after having a clear overview of the design problem and at the beginning of the ideation phase.

A concept sketch is a fast freehand drawing.

To be used in Ideation phase.