Library of facilitation techniques

Identify some of your user's key emotions.

Offer prompts in an interview to uncover people's emotions about things that might not come up otherwise and set yourself up for more engaging conversation.

A great get-to-know activity that dives a bit deeper than regular name repeating games.

Putting review points into your meeting helps to ensure not only that it stays on track, but that people share ownership for the outcomes. Review points are very quick and simple, but can have a big impact on your success. 

This can be used as a teambuilding activity or a way to introduce participants to each other.

Use picture cards in topics as described below.

Divide the workshop participants into any number of smaller group in a randomised fashion. It is a fun way to do it. 

plan some time with your teammates to test your personalities

De waarschijnlijkheid en de implicaties van scenario's wordt onderzocht.

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.

Quick icebreaker to find commonalities among a group. Many facilitators from different organizations have contributed to this exercise as written.

A quick, physical improv game that asks participants to embody an object as quickly as they can!