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This is a simple method to prioritize actions as part of an action planning workshop, after a list of actions has been generated.

This technique helps to create a historical timeline for your organization with the collective work of your group members.

This activity can be a stand alone workshop or part of a planning workshop.

Any breakout group activity to capture ideas and generate dialogue around them.

A SWOT Analysis is used in project planning, strategic planning and other processes where agreement is needed about the current situation of a project, team, department or organization. It stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

A quick and effective activity to energize your group at a virtual meeting by adapting the Mexican Wave to an online setting.

This exercise is ideal for a team whose members don't know one another very well but can make it difficult to apply for a group with well known people. It provides an informal platform for individuals to share personal information and build trust.

People share a fear, it is received by another, and then they are asked to share the advice that a trusted mentor or friend would give them.

With this easy sequence you can help the team to open up their mind on what is the future way of working in comparison to the past. It gives some input and impulses to think about how we work today and how we could work in the future.

The team can define together how far they want to go, what is valid for them and what does not fit to them.

They can decide what they want to change and what to keep

People make statements that are true about themselves, and others for whom the statement is true reveal themselves.  

Open Space is a methodology for large groups to create their agenda discerning important topics for discussion, suitable for conferences, community gatherings and whole system facilitation

A process for understanding a complex problem situation