Draw me a cat 😸
A quick drawing activity to better understand neurodiversity.
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Photos as children
An activity to get to know each other- from a different perspective, as children
Triple Nine
The key to such procedures as need analysis, market research, and evaluation is the ability to find patterns in available information, collect additional information, and come to logical conclusions. We devised a game with a pocket calculator to teach this type of logical thinking.
What's in a name?
Ice breaker for groups who don't know each other.
Forming a buddy group
In large gatherings that will be stable for a few days or more, you can combine the benefits of having a high number of attendees (e.g. more minds at work!) with the supportive feel of a small group by creating "home groups" or "buddy groups".
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.
Photo introduction
Have people take out their phone
Select the 10th photo
Share with your partner/table
Walk like a ...
character walks based on prompts
Walk like a ... 86 year old man, CEO, olympic athlete, pregnant woman, etc.
Walk as inspired by a... grandfather clock, ice cream truck, ocean wave...
Status mingle
Start with eye contact instructions (2 groups) & mingle
switch roles & mingle
choose and change status
Explore external vs. internal
Back to Back drawing
One partner describes what to draw without naming the object