A searchable library of 751+ facilitation techniques for workshop designers, coaches, and team leads. Browse by category, duration, or group size — from classic methods like World Café and Dot Voting to advanced design thinking and retrospective formats. Each method includes step-by-step instructions, timing guidelines, and facilitator tips.
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3-2-1 Bridge is a before-and-after reflection routine in which participants record their first take on a topic as …
10m–20m1+Beginner
CoachingActing in Alignment is a values workshop of about 85 minutes in which participants name their core values …
1h–2h12–24Intermediate
CoachingAdapting Response Patterns is a workshop in which participants analyse an automatic …
3h–3h4–20Advanced
CoachingThe Awe Narrative is a short individual writing exercise in which a person recalls a fairly recent experience of …
15m–20m1+Beginner
CoachingA Case Clinic is a peer coaching process in which one person presents a current leadership challenge and a small …
1h–2h4–6Intermediate
CoachingCentering Practice is a very short body-based routine, taught by Wendy Palmer in her Leadership Embodiment work …
1m–10m1+Beginner
CoachingChallenge Your Beliefs is an 80-minute session in which each participant identifies one limiting belief …
1h–1h12–20Intermediate
CoachingA Change Audit is a six-question reflection in which a leader or team takes stock of the changes they started in a …
1h–2h1–12Intermediate
CoachingCircular Questions is a systemic facilitation technique that prompts participants to take the perspective of others in …
20m–1h3–30Intermediate
CoachingA Clearness Committee is a process in which a small group gathers around one focus person who faces a personal …
2h5–7Advanced
CoachingEpistemic Recontextualisation (ER) is a reflective practice for intellectual humility in which participants examine …
2h–2h3–20Advanced
CoachingThe Facilitator Passport is a one-page self-assessment on which a facilitator records their experience …
15m–1h1–30Beginner
CoachingGetting Unstuck is a self-paced audio walk from the Stanford d.school in which a recorded guide sends people outdoors …
2h1+Beginner
CoachingGratitude Journaling is a guided session in which participants write about what they are grateful for and choose a …
1h–2h1–30Beginner
CoachingGuided Journaling is a self-reflection exercise from Otto Scharmer's Theory U in which a facilitator reads out a fixed …
45m–2h1+Intermediate
CoachingInside-Outside Presence is an embodied attention exercise in which participants practise staying aware of their own …
30m–1h2–25Intermediate
CoachingA Labyrinth Walk is a silent walking meditation in which each person follows the single winding path of a labyrinth to …
30m–1h1–30Beginner
CoachingLoving-kindness meditation is a guided practice in which participants silently offer a short set of good wishes …
10m–15m1+Intermediate
CoachingMaking Courageous Decisions is a pair-based exercise in which each person names something meaningful they have been …
1h–1h2–12Advanced
CoachingThe Miracle Question is a solution-focused facilitation technique that invites participants to imagine a future in …
20m–1h2–20Beginner
CoachingReframing is a facilitation technique that offers a new interpretive frame for a behaviour, situation, or concern …
15m–45m2–30Intermediate
CoachingThe Resilience Plan is a structured exercise in which people work out what helped them through a past setback and …
2h–3h4–28Intermediate
CoachingResource Orientation is a solution-focused facilitation approach that deliberately redirects attention from problems …
20m–50m2–30Beginner
CoachingScaling Questions is a solution-focused facilitation technique that uses a simple 1–10 scale to make subjective …
10m–30m2–50Beginner
CoachingShadowing is a field assignment in which one person accompanies someone else through half a day to a full day of their …
5h–9h1+Intermediate
CoachingThe Stuck Exercise is an embodied practice in which a person gives physical shape to a situation where they feel stuck …
1h–2h4–24Advanced
CoachingTalking with Pixies is a role-based structure for a person at a crossroads: in a group of four …
30m–2h4+Advanced
CoachingThe Superhero in Me is a drawing-based self-awareness exercise in which each participant turns their strengths …
1h–2h3–24Beginner
The '35' method is designed to quickly prioritize ideas or items through a structured, pair-based ranking system.
15m–45m4–50Intermediate
DecisionAI Devil's Advocate is a decision check in which a team asks an AI chat assistant to play a friendly dissenting …
20m–40m3–6Beginner
DecisionBang-for-the-Buck is a collaborative prioritization tool used by product managers and development teams to evaluate …
1h5–8Intermediate
DecisionA prioritisation game developed by Luke Hohmann where participants spend a limited budget of play money to 'buy' …
30m–1h3–20Intermediate
DecisionClean Escalations is a protocol for resolving a decision that is stuck between two people or teams: both sides name …
Flexible2+Advanced
DecisionCompass Points is a thinking routine from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for examining an …
20m–40m3–40Beginner
DecisionConsent decision-making is a facilitated way of deciding in which a proposal is adopted when nobody has a reasoned …
15m–1h3–12Intermediate
DecisionThe Cynefin Framework is a sense-making framework created by Dave Snowden in 1999 that sorts situations into five …
30m–2h3–20Advanced
DecisionDACI is a decision-making framework that assigns four roles before a group decision is made: a Driver who runs the …
1h–1h3–6Beginner
DecisionA Decision Matrix is a table that compares several options against a shared set of criteria: each option is scored on …
30m–1h2–12Beginner
DecisionDeep Democracy Decision-Making is a majority-vote process from the Lewis Method of Deep Democracy that deliberately …
FlexibleAnyAdvanced
DecisionDeveloped by Jurgen Appelo as part of Management 3.0 …
30m–1h2–20Intermediate
DecisionThe Delphi Technique is a structured way to bring a panel of experts or stakeholders to a considered judgement through …
2h–4h10–40Advanced
DecisionA democratic prioritisation technique where each participant receives a fixed number of votes (represented by dot …
5m–20m2–100Beginner
DecisionEvidence-Based Decision Making is a three-hour team process for reaching a proposed decision on a complex problem by …
3h4–60Advanced
DecisionA quick consensus-checking technique where participants indicate their level of support for a proposal by showing 1 to …
5m–15m3–40Beginner
DecisionThe Five-Fingered Consensus is a quick and effective method to gauge the level of agreement within a group on a …
5m–15m5+Beginner
DecisionForced Ranking is a prioritisation exercise in which a group turns an unordered list into one strictly ordered list …
30m–1h3–10Beginner
DecisionDeveloped by Sam Kaner, this tool maps participant support for a proposal on a seven-point spectrum from …
10m–30m3–30Intermediate
DecisionThe Impact & Effort Matrix is a decision-making tool that helps teams evaluate and prioritize ideas based on their …
30m–1h2–15Intermediate
DecisionIntegrative Decision-Making is the fixed sequence of rounds that Holacracy uses in governance meetings to decide on a …
15m–40m3–12Advanced
DecisionDeveloped by Noriaki Kano, this model classifies product features by how they affect customer satisfaction.
45m–2h2–20Intermediate
DecisionThe Ladder of Inference is a model of the mental steps between observing something and acting on it …
30m–1h2–12Intermediate
DecisionA prioritisation framework dividing requirements or tasks into four categories: Must Have (non-negotiable) …
30m–2h2–20Beginner
DecisionThe NUF Test is a decision-making tool used to evaluate ideas based on how New, Useful, and Feasible they are.
15m–30m3+Intermediate
DecisionThe group collaboratively develops a shared motto or slogan short enough to fit on a bumper sticker.
1h–2h4–20Beginner
DecisionA consensus-based estimation technique used by agile teams.
30m–2h2–10Beginner
DecisionA lightweight prioritisation technique that gives each participant a fixed number of 'priority votes' (total items ÷ 3 …
15m–30m4–30Beginner
DecisionThe Pro/Con List is a classic decision-making tool that helps individuals or groups weigh the positive and negative …
15m–1h1+Beginner
DecisionThe simplest possible group voting technique: thumbs up (yes), thumbs sideways (neutral/can live with it) …
2m–10m2–100Beginner
DecisionThe Sticky Decision is the five-step routine a design sprint team uses to choose which solution sketch to prototype …
1h–2h4–7Intermediate
DecisionA lightweight relative estimation technique where backlog items are sized using T-shirt sizes (XS through XL) instead …
30m–2h3–12Beginner
DecisionThe Team Decision Matrix is a card-based exercise from Management 3.0 in which a team agrees …
30m–1h3–10Beginner
DecisionParticipants use colour-coded cards (red = no/stop, yellow = maybe/slow down, green = yes/go) to respond to ideas …
15m–30m4–40Beginner
Co-Designing Transition Experiments is a card-guided process for designing a small real-world experiment in a specific …
2h–6h3–30Advanced
Design ThinkingCollage is a research and expression technique in which each participant builds a collage in response to a prompt and …
30m–1h1–20Beginner
Design ThinkingA Concept Walkthrough is an early feedback technique in which a service or product idea is presented to potential …
30m–1h3–8Intermediate
Design ThinkingContextual inquiry is a field-research method in which a small team visits people in the place where they work …
3h–4h2–4Advanced
Design ThinkingDesign Principles are a short set of memorable statements, grounded in user research and the organisation's values …
1h–2h4–10Intermediate
Design ThinkingDynamic Personas is a persona format that describes how a person's behaviour could change through a series of stages …
1h–2h3–10Intermediate
Design ThinkingAn Impact Journey is a journey map with a matrix added underneath …
1h–2h4–10Intermediate
Design ThinkingModerated usability testing is a research session in which a moderator watches one participant at a time attempt …
30m–1h2–6Intermediate
Design ThinkingAn Offering Map is a diagram of what a service provides to its users …
1h–2h3–8Intermediate
Design ThinkingA Service Safari is a field research activity in which team members go out and use a service themselves, as customers …
2h–4h3–16Beginner
Design ThinkingSocio-Spatial Mapping is a site-visit exercise for understanding a public space in which one pair maps what they …
3h4–24Intermediate
15 Toasts is a dinner format for about fifteen guests built around a single theme …
2h–3h10–20Intermediate
DialogueBohm Dialogue is a free-flowing group conversation with no set agenda and no decision to reach …
2h20–40Advanced
DialogueCollective Story Harvest is a storytelling process from the Art of Hosting community in which a group listens to a …
2h–2h6+Intermediate
DialogueColor, Symbol, Image (CSI) is a thinking routine from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in …
15m–30m2–40Beginner
DialogueConnect, Extend, Challenge is a three-question reflection routine from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of …
10m–25m2–50Beginner
DialogueConstructive Conversations is a practice format in which participants learn to hold a real dialogue on a contested …
3h–3h6+Intermediate
DialogueThe Council of All Beings is a group ritual in which each participant sets aside the human role and speaks on behalf …
1h–4h4–40Advanced
DialogueAn Expert Panel is a moderated session in which several specialists from different fields present their views on an …
1h–2h8+Intermediate
DialogueA Focus Group is a moderated group interview in which a small …
2h–2h4–12Intermediate
DialogueHeadlines is a short synthesis routine in which each participant writes one newspaper-style headline that captures the …
10m–20m2+Beginner
DialogueA Jane's Walk is a free, volunteer-led walk through a neighbourhood that works as a moving conversation and not as a …
FlexibleAnyBeginner
DialogueA Jeffersonian Dinner is a dinner for a small group built around one shared conversation on a question announced in …
2h–3h8–12Intermediate
DialogueThe Long Table is a public conversation format staged as a dinner party in which conversation is the only course.
1h–3h10–100Intermediate
DialoguePhotovoice is a participatory method in which community members photograph their own lives on an agreed theme and then …
1h–2h6–16Advanced
DialoguePlayback Theatre is an improvised theatre form in which people from the audience tell true moments from their own …
1h–2h10+Advanced
DialogueRestorative Dialogue, in the form described here, is a structured follow-up conversation held some time after a group …
1h8–20Advanced
DialogueRiver of Life is a visual storytelling method in which each person draws their life, or the story of a project or team …
1h–3h3–12Intermediate
DialogueSee, Think, Wonder is a three-question thinking routine in which a group looks closely at an object …
10m–30m2+Beginner
DialogueA Socratic Seminar is a structured group discussion of a shared text in which the leader asks open questions and the …
45m–2h5–30Intermediate
DialogueSpiral Journal is a quiet individual warm-up in which people slowly draw a tight spiral to settle their attention …
10m–20m2+Beginner
DialogueStep Inside is a perspective-taking routine in which participants imagine themselves as a person or thing connected to …
20m–35m2+Beginner
DialogueStory Circles is a small-group listening format in which each person tells a short personal story on a given prompt …
50m–1h4–30Intermediate
DialogueThe Repeating Question is a paired walk-and-talk for practising attention …
1h–1h6–20Beginner
DialogueThe Truth Mandala is a whole-group ritual from Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects for voicing pain about the state of …
2h–2h12–100Advanced
DialogueThe Wheel of Power/Privilege is a diagram and reflection exercise in which people locate themselves on a wheel whose …
30m–2h4–30Advanced
A Fake Artist Goes to New York is a social-deduction drawing game in which everyone except one player knows a secret …
15m–30m5–10Beginner
EnergiserUse this activity to foster connections among team members by sharing personal pictures that tell their stories.
10m–20mAnyBeginner
EnergiserA closing ritual where participants offer specific appreciations — to each other, to the facilitator …
10m–20m3–30Beginner
EnergiserA structured paired interview process from Appreciative Inquiry where participants interview each other about peak …
20m–40m4–100Beginner
EnergiserArchival Memories is a paired get-to-know-you activity in which each person scrolls back to the oldest picture in …
5m–15m2+Beginner
EnergiserAre You More Like... is a mingling icebreaker in which each person holds one half of a word pair …
10m–15m15–30Beginner
EnergiserBack Tracking is a mixer in which every participant wears an icebreaker question on their back that they cannot see …
10m–15m15–30Beginner
EnergiserBang is a lively game that encourages quick reactions and brings laughter to the group.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
EnergiserBreak-Out Room Tag is a game of tag played by hopping between breakout rooms on a video call.
5m–10m8+Beginner
EnergiserCreate a unique handshake with a partner to foster connection and creativity.
5m–10m4+Beginner
EnergiserCard Talk is a get-to-know-you mixer with ordinary playing cards in which each person chooses a card according to how …
5m–10m15–30Beginner
EnergiserCircles in the Air is a short physical demonstration that what you observe depends on where you observe it from.
2m–10m1+Beginner
EnergiserA lively physical exercise where the facilitator reads out a statement and anyone it applies to stands up (or steps …
10m–20m6–40Beginner
EnergiserConcentration is a traditional circle game in which a group keeps a steady four-beat rhythm of claps and finger clicks …
10m–15m8–15Beginner
EnergiserCount To Six is a short coordination energiser in which each arm follows a different movement pattern over the same …
2m–10m2+Beginner
EnergiserCrossword Names is a name activity in which a group builds one interlocking crossword grid out of letter cards …
5m–10m6–15Beginner
EnergiserCuriosity Ping Pong is a virtual icebreaker in which everyone answers one question in the chat at the same moment …
5m–15m6–30Beginner
EnergiserThis energetic activity invites participants to dance in small teams, creating a lively atmosphere.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
EnergiserDicebreakers is a getting-to-know-you activity in which people in small groups take turns rolling a die and answering …
5m–10m3+Beginner
EnergiserDress Up is a short energiser for video calls in which everyone switches their camera off …
5m–10m4+Beginner
EnergiserExciting Sponge is a quick storytelling game in which each person picks up a dull everyday object and invents an …
5m–10m3–15Beginner
EnergiserFFEACH is a charades relay in which teams race through a facilitator's list of items …
15m–20m8–30Beginner
EnergiserFun Facts is a get-to-know-you guessing game in which each participant anonymously contributes one little-known fact …
10m–15m5–25Beginner
EnergiserGeared Up is a call-and-response energiser for partners standing in two concentric circles …
15m–20m10–30Intermediate
EnergiserThis activity encourages quick introductions among participants while reducing initial awkwardness.
1m–15m20+Beginner
EnergiserEngage participants in a lively online activity where they respond to prompts with creative GIFs.
15m2+Beginner
EnergiserThis energiser helps remote teams learn about each other's workspaces in a fun and interactive way.
15m–30m4+Beginner
EnergiserThe Helium Stick activity promotes teamwork and communication among participants.
5m5+Beginner
EnergiserParticipants engage in a light-hearted game where the goal is to keep a straight face.
5m–30m2–40Beginner
EnergiserAn energetic ice breaker where participants circulate and find people who match descriptions in a Bingo grid (e.g.
15m–25m10–60Beginner
EnergiserA fun icebreaker where participants try to make each other smile without breaking character.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
EnergiserI Spy is the traditional guessing game adapted for video calls: one person picks something visible in any …
5m–10m5–25Beginner
EnergiserIf Then is a short paired improvisation warm-up in which one partner starts a sentence with "If..." and the other …
5m–10m2–40Beginner
EnergiserImprov Cards is a storytelling warm-up built on a deck of 55 picture cards published by Management 3.0: each person …
15m–30m3–30Beginner
EnergiserJump In Jump Out is a circle energiser in which the group jumps in, out …
5m–10m6–30Beginner
EnergiserParticipants must arrange themselves in a line based on specific criteria without speaking.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
EnergiserThis energiser helps participants experience the challenge of unlearning by following rapid directional prompts.
6m–10m5+Beginner
EnergiserMad Tea is a Liberating Structure in which participants complete a rapid series of open sentences about a shared …
20m–25m6+Beginner
EnergiserMatch & Out is a rhythm-and-chance elimination game in which everyone keeps a shared pat-and-clap beat and then shows …
5m–10m10–100Beginner
EnergiserThis activity helps participants memorize each other's names in a fun and engaging way …
5m–15m10–20Beginner
EnergiserNames Stock Market is a noisy trading game for learning names, in which everyone writes their first name on five cards …
10m–15m10–30Beginner
EnergiserNear and Far is an engaging warm-up activity designed to foster connections among participants while exploring themes …
10m–20m10–50Beginner
EnergiserNever Have I Ever is a work-appropriate version of the traditional party game: a statement beginning 'Never have I ever.
5m–20m3–300Beginner
EnergiserOne Up, One Down is a find-the-hidden-rule puzzle in which the leader points at people and labels each one "one up …
10m–15m6–20Beginner
EnergiserPancakes vs Waffles is a quick debate game in which a group must agree which of two things stays in the world and …
5m–20m2+Beginner
EnergiserThis activity engages participants in a fun way to demonstrate teamwork and strategy through observation and …
10m–15m10–30Beginner
EnergiserPortrait Gallery is an energetic opening exercise in which participants draw portraits of one another collaboratively …
15m–1h6–50Beginner
EnergiserPositive-Negative is a quick shared-storytelling game in which pairs or small groups build a made-up story one turn at …
2m–5m2+Beginner
EnergiserPsychiatrist is a traditional deduction game in which one volunteer leaves the room while the rest of the group …
20m–30m8–30Beginner
EnergiserPush Catch is a circle reaction game in which players must do the opposite of the command they hear.
10m–15m8–15Beginner
EnergiserThis fun improvisation game helps participants engage creatively and energizes the group.
5m–20m2+Beginner
EnergiserThis activity helps participants connect and share insights by discussing meaningful quotes.
15m–45m10+Beginner
EnergiserRainstorm is a large-group sound energiser in which the facilitator conducts the room through a storm made with body …
10m–20m20+Beginner
EnergiserThis quick energizer invites participants to engage and observe one another, fostering connection in a virtual setting.
5mAnyIntermediate
EnergiserThis energizer turns the classic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors into a lively tournament.
5m–10mAnyBeginner
EnergiserShake Down is a quick and active energizer where participants shake each limb to release energy and improve focus.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
EnergiserInspired by Hemingway's legendary six-word story ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn') …
10m–20m2–100Beginner
EnergiserA physical mapping technique from psychodrama where people position themselves in space to reveal social and …
15m–30m8–50Beginner
EnergiserThis activity encourages participants to engage in conversations while practicing active listening skills.
1m–10mAnyBeginner
EnergiserThis activity boosts group energy by encouraging creative thinking and engagement.
10m–15m6–12Intermediate
EnergiserEngage participants in a lively, interactive game that boosts energy and relieves tension.
3m–5m8–15Beginner
EnergiserStory Around the Circle is a group activity in which people build one story aloud …
10m–30m5–20Beginner
EnergiserStory Swap is a paired icebreaker in which each person holds a picture card they have not looked at and shows it to a …
10m–15m6–30Beginner
EnergiserThis energizer emphasizes the value of communication, teamwork, and feedback through a simple and engaging activity.
10m–15m5+Beginner
EnergiserThis energiser boosts creativity and teamwork by having participants visualize their unique contributions as …
10m–20mAnyBeginner
EnergiserSync Claps is an engaging activity designed to enhance focus and alignment within a group.
5m–30m10–40Intermediate
EnergiserEngage your team with a fun and light-hearted activity where they share insights about themselves through their …
5m–15m5–30Beginner
EnergiserThis Is a What? is a traditional circle game in which an object is passed from person to person with a fixed …
10m–15m12–30Beginner
EnergiserThe Toilet Paper Icebreaker is a traditional getting-to-know-you activity in which a toilet roll is passed around and …
5m–15m6–15Beginner
EnergiserTouch Blue is a fun energizer that gets participants moving and sharing.
5m–15mAnyBeginner
EnergiserA classic ice breaker where each participant shares three statements about themselves — two true, one false.
10m–20m3–30Beginner
EnergiserUncommon Commonalities is a get-to-know-you game in which small teams list things that every member of the team has in …
10m–20m8–40Beginner
EnergiserHost a lively virtual scavenger hunt to boost team spirit and creativity.
30m–1h2–50Intermediate
EnergiserWalk & Stop is a movement and listening energiser in which a group follows simple spoken commands whose meanings are …
5m–15m8–60Beginner
EnergiserThe Weather Check-in is an opening round in which each person describes how they are right now as a kind of weather …
5m–10m2–30Beginner
EnergiserParticipants take turns miming actions while others guess what they are doing.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
EnergiserWhere in the World? is a short team game in which the group is shown a random street-level scene and has to work out …
10m–15m4–30Beginner
EnergiserWho is the Artist? is a get-to-know-you activity in which everyone anonymously draws something that tells a fact or …
15m–30m5–20Beginner
EnergiserWho's the Leader? is a guessing game in which a group secretly copies one person's changing movements while an …
10m–15m8–30Beginner
EnergiserWikiracing is a browser game in which players start on the same Wikipedia article and race to reach a named target …
5m–10m2+Beginner
EnergiserYear of the Coin is a story-sharing icebreaker that uses the year stamped on a coin as a random prompt.
10m–15m4–15Beginner
EnergiserThis activity invites participants to envision their future by sharing positive outcomes from a recent event.
FlexibleAnyIntermediate
A collaborative facilitation exercise for aligning a team or group of stakeholders on the purpose, scope, goals …
1h–2h2–15Intermediate
FacilitationThis method supports groups and individuals in outlining actionable steps toward achieving a specific vision.
2h–4h2–40Intermediate
Facilitation4D Mapping is an embodied systems-mapping practice from Social Presencing Theater in which volunteers each represent …
1h–2h8–24Advanced
FacilitationThe 7Ps Framework provides a structured approach to planning a meeting by focusing on essential components.
20m–2h2+Beginner
FacilitationThis workshop helps participants outline their future goals while identifying the steps needed to reach them.
1h–4h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationThis activity encourages participants to deeply reflect on a question while using active listening practices with peers.
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationAI as Student is a learning exercise in which the usual roles are reversed: an AI chat assistant plays a student who …
20m–40m1–30Intermediate
FacilitationAI Empty Chair is a deliberation technique in which a large language model generates contributions in the voice of …
30m–1h5–20Advanced
FacilitationThis method helps participants practice handling angry customers through discussion and role-play.
40m6–30Beginner
FacilitationDeveloped by David Cooperrider, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a strengths-based approach to organisational change.
2h–8h5–500Intermediate
FacilitationAn Ask Me Anything (AMA) is an open question-and-answer session in which a leader or project group takes questions …
25m–50m5+Beginner
FacilitationAttention-getting signals are a small set of agreed cues a facilitator uses to bring a talking group back to silence …
1m–5m8+Beginner
FacilitationThis method helps teams build trust and self-awareness through structured feedback.
1h–2h2–40Advanced
FacilitationA participant-driven event format (also called an unconference) where the agenda is created collaboratively at the …
4h–8h15–500Intermediate
FacilitationCapacity Planning is a 30-minute team exercise in which each person lists everything that fills a typical working week …
30m3–8Beginner
FacilitationA Chat Waterfall is a way to collect everyone's answer in a video-call chat at the same moment …
5m–15m5+Beginner
FacilitationA structured closing ritual where each participant briefly shares a takeaway, reflection …
5m–15m2–40Beginner
FacilitationCircle of Viewpoints is a perspective-taking routine from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education …
20m–40m5–20Beginner
FacilitationThis method promotes reflection at the end of a workshop.
FlexibleAnyBeginner
FacilitationClaim, Support, Question is a reasoning routine from Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education …
15m–30m1+Beginner
FacilitationThis method helps individuals shift their mindset and improve their emotional state.
5m–1h2–10Beginner
FacilitationThis activity helps participants understand the impact of different communication styles: passive, aggressive …
10m–20m5–15Intermediate
FacilitationThe Context Map helps visualize the external factors influencing an organization.
45m–2h5–25Intermediate
FacilitationA ceremonial form of structured dialogue rooted in indigenous traditions and developed for contemporary use by Jack …
30m–2h4–20Intermediate
FacilitationEncourage participants to reflect on a topic by using critical thinking questions.
30m–1h2–10Beginner
FacilitationA daily time-boxed synchronisation ritual from Scrum, run standing up to encourage brevity.
15m2–10Beginner
FacilitationThis exercise explores the influence of how options are presented on decision-making.
10m–20m2–30Beginner
FacilitationA collaborative session for a team to define their shared standard for when work is truly complete.
1h–2h3–10Intermediate
FacilitationDemo Trust is a one-hour review session from the Atlassian Team Playbook in which a project team shows unfinished work …
1h4–6Intermediate
FacilitationThe Diversity Welcome is a spoken opening ritual in which the facilitator welcomes, one after another …
5m–20m6+Intermediate
FacilitationDynamic Facilitation is an open, non-linear way of facilitating a group through a difficult issue …
2h–3hAnyAdvanced
FacilitationE.T. stands for 'Effective Trainer.' In this activity …
20m–45m6–50Intermediate
FacilitationEnhancing Sensorial Connectedness is a field exercise in which a small group visits a local ecosystem …
4h–7h3–12Advanced
FacilitationThis exercise helps participants identify their core values through a quick and instinctual process.
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationFair Team Meeting Scheduling is a one-hour workshop from the Atlassian Team Playbook in which a distributed team …
1h–1h3–10Beginner
FacilitationA rapid peer feedback technique where participants rotate through giving and receiving structured feedback in short …
30m–1h6–30Beginner
FacilitationThe Feedback Map method helps participants provide clear …
30m–2h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationFeedback Mingle allows participants to give and receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment.
2h–4h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationThe Feedback Wrap is a five-part structure for giving constructive feedback, spoken or written …
20m–30m2–30Beginner
FacilitationThis method helps teams build trust and openness through structured feedback.
1h–2h2–40Advanced
FacilitationThis exercise encourages participants to share constructive feedback in a structured way …
1h–2h2–40Advanced
FacilitationThis method encourages team members to provide constructive feedback to enhance trust and communication.
1h–2h2–40Advanced
FacilitationFinger Rules help structure discussions by using hand gestures to indicate participants' opinions and requests.
5m–10m3+Intermediate
FacilitationThis exercise promotes communication and relationship building within teams.
15m–30m6–30Beginner
FacilitationA facilitation technique where outputs, ideas, or prompts are displayed on the walls like a gallery exhibition.
20m–45m6–60Beginner
FacilitationThe real-time visual capture of a group's ideas, conversations, and insights using drawing, text …
30m–8h5–500Advanced
FacilitationThe most widely used coaching framework, developed by Sir John Whitmore.
30m–1h2–2Intermediate
FacilitationThe Happiness Door is a quick feedback wall, usually the exit door of the room …
5m–15m3+Beginner
FacilitationA collective sense-making practice used to capture and consolidate the key insights, decisions, commitments …
15m–45m3–100Beginner
FacilitationHierarchical Card Sorting (HCS) is a sorting interview that shows how a person or small group categorises and values a …
1h–2h1–6Intermediate
FacilitationA simple opening exercise where participants write their hopes (what they want to achieve or experience) and fears …
15m–25m3–30Beginner
FacilitationI Notice, I Wonder, It Reminds Me Of is a three-prompt observation routine from naturalist John Muir Laws …
15m–40m2+Beginner
FacilitationIDOARRT is a straightforward framework for structuring meetings effectively.
5m–30m2–40Beginner
FacilitationA Japanese concept meaning 'reason for being'. The Ikigai framework maps four overlapping dimensions: What you love …
45m–2h1–20Beginner
FacilitationIn-Room Buddy is a role assignment for hybrid meetings in which each remote participant is paired with a person …
5m–10m3+Beginner
FacilitationIssue Cards are a custom deck in which each card carries a single prompt about the topic at hand, such as an insight …
30m–1h1–10Beginner
FacilitationA cooperative learning structure developed by Elliot Aronson.
45m–2h9–40Intermediate
FacilitationThis activity helps participants observe the physiological effects of stress by taking their pulse.
10m–15m5+Beginner
FacilitationA structured conversation format created by David Gurteen that brings people together to have a meaningful …
1h–2h10–60Intermediate
FacilitationParticipants create and practice a brief pitch that summarizes what they do, designed to leave a lasting impression.
20m–40m2–30Beginner
FacilitationThis activity allows participants to share leadership wisdom by channeling the insights of their personal role models.
20m–45m5–30Intermediate
FacilitationA structured but agenda-less meeting format developed by Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith.
30m–2h3–15Beginner
FacilitationA Learning Circle, in the Atlassian Team Playbook format …
30m–1h6–12Beginner
FacilitationThis exercise encourages participants to reflect on their learnings by writing a letter to their future selves.
5m–30m2–40Beginner
FacilitationA Liberating Structures String is a purposefully designed sequence of two or more Liberating Structures methods …
1h–3h5–100Advanced
FacilitationA Live Doc Meeting is a meeting run from one shared …
25m–50m2+Beginner
FacilitationMetaphor Work is a facilitation technique that uses images, stories, and analogies to help groups engage with complex …
20m–1h3–30Intermediate
FacilitationA mingle is a simultaneous-interaction format in which everyone stands …
5m–20m8+Beginner
FacilitationA structured approach to facilitating collaborative work sessions entirely in a digital whiteboard environment.
1h–4h2–30Intermediate
FacilitationDeveloped by Marshall Rosenberg, Non-Violent Communication (NVC) is a communication framework for expressing needs and …
30m–2h2–20Intermediate
FacilitationThis method helps participants experience the contrast between learning styles.
50m–1h20–30Advanced
FacilitationThis method gathers feedback in a concise manner, allowing each participant to share their thoughts during a single …
5m–15m2–20Beginner
FacilitationA simple opening ritual where each participant shares a single word that captures how they are feeling or what they …
5m–15m2–50Beginner
FacilitationA facilitation micro-skill and deliberate practice: crafting and using open questions that generate exploration rather …
10m–30m1–50Beginner
FacilitationThis activity uses a literary extract to enhance communication skills through role play.
5m–10m4–12Intermediate
FacilitationOpen Space Technology (OST) is a self-organising large-group facilitation method developed by Harrison Owen in the …
2h10+Intermediate
FacilitationDeveloped by the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) …
20m–1h2–30Intermediate
FacilitationA facilitation tool for capturing off-topic ideas, questions, or tangents without derailing the main discussion.
1m–5m2–50Beginner
FacilitationA structured peer learning format where a small group of practitioners support each other's professional development …
1h–2h4–8Intermediate
FacilitationThis workshop provides a structured approach for participants to evaluate their personal growth using the SWOB …
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationAn adaptation of the classic SWOT framework for personal or professional development.
30m–1h1–20Beginner
FacilitationParticipants select an image from a collection that resonates with how they feel, what they expect from the session …
10m–20m3–40Beginner
FacilitationPlaying Card Mixers is a way of forming random groups with a standard deck of cards: each person receives one card and …
5m–10m8–104Beginner
FacilitationPop-up rules are explicit rules that a host sets for one gathering only …
5m–15mAnyBeginner
FacilitationPost-it Prophecies is a small welcome or closing ritual in which the facilitator writes a short message for every …
10m–20m2+Beginner
FacilitationPowerpoint Karaoke is an engaging game where participants present slides they have never seen before.
45m–1h15+Beginner
FacilitationThis method helps participants explore and define effective feedback principles through discussion and collaboration.
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
FacilitationThis method helps teams assess their ongoing project to identify necessary improvements for better collaboration.
30m–1h2–10Intermediate
FacilitationA Project Poster is a one-page living document that a team fills in together at the start of a project …
1h–2h3–10Intermediate
FacilitationThis opening activity engages participants in recognizing change by making quick, personal modifications.
10mAnyBeginner
FacilitationThis activity helps participants explore qualities that enable adaptability and resilience in times of change.
20m–45m6–50Beginner
FacilitationA RACI Matrix clarifies roles and responsibilities within a project by identifying who is Responsible, Accountable …
1h–2h2–6Intermediate
FacilitationRed Light, Yellow Light is a critical-reading routine in which participants go through a source and mark the points …
20m–45m2+Beginner
FacilitationThis method enables individuals to break down complex experiences, identify successes, and learn from failures.
30m–1h2–10Intermediate
FacilitationThis fun improv activity enhances your team's pitching abilities in a remote setting.
15m2–20Beginner
FacilitationUse the sailboat metaphor to help teams identify what drives them forward and what holds them back.
20m–30m5–10Beginner
FacilitationA short ritual created by Norm Kerth that is read aloud at the start of any retrospective.
5m–10m2–50Beginner
FacilitationRole on the Wall is a technique in which a group draws a large outline of a person …
30m–45m2–30Beginner
FacilitationA learning and exploration technique where participants take on assigned roles and act out scenarios.
20m–1h2–30Intermediate
FacilitationA structured turn-taking technique where each person contributes once before anyone contributes a second time.
5m–30m3–20Beginner
FacilitationSelective Hearing is a structured listening technique in which each listener is given one lens, why, how or what …
15m–30m6–20Intermediate
FacilitationSeven Words illustrates how the emphasis on different words can change the meaning of a sentence.
3m–5m2+Beginner
FacilitationShift and Share enables participants to discover and discuss innovative ideas quickly by connecting them with various …
2h10+Intermediate
FacilitationA Silent Meeting is a meeting built around a document that everyone reads in silence at the table instead of beforehand.
30m–1h3–30Intermediate
FacilitationA non-verbal group sorting exercise where participants collaboratively arrange items — ideas, priorities, options …
10m–25m3–20Beginner
FacilitationSituation-Behavior-Impact (SBI) is a three-part structure for giving feedback: name the specific situation …
20m–45m2–30Beginner
FacilitationSocratic Questioning is a disciplined way of examining a statement …
20m–1h1–20Advanced
FacilitationA Soundwalk is a silent walk whose only purpose is to listen to the surroundings.
30m–1h1–30Beginner
FacilitationSparring is a short structured peer-review session in which one person brings unfinished work and a small group gives …
30m–45m3–5Beginner
FacilitationA physical polling technique where participants position themselves along a line in the room based on their degree of …
15m–30m5–60Beginner
FacilitationThis technique helps participants reinforce their understanding of a presentation by summarizing key points for …
30m–1h4+Intermediate
FacilitationThe Scrum ceremony that kicks off each sprint. The team selects items from the top of the product backlog …
2h–4h3–10Intermediate
FacilitationSystemic Constellations (Aufstellungen) is a somatic and spatial facilitation method in which participants physically …
30m–2h6–40Advanced
FacilitationAn ancient practice adapted for contemporary facilitation: only the person holding a physical object (the 'talking …
10m–1h3–20Beginner
FacilitationThis activity helps participants practice persuasive communication by analyzing what others appreciate and applying …
10m–20m2–5Intermediate
FacilitationThe Thankfulness Tree activity encourages participants to reflect on what they are grateful for …
5m–15m2+Beginner
FacilitationThe Milling is a silent, moving practice from Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects in which people walk through an open …
20m–30m10+Advanced
FacilitationA structured discussion technique from educational practice.
10m–20m4–100Beginner
FacilitationThis activity helps participants reflect on a past experience and extract key lessons.
15m–30m10+Intermediate
FacilitationIn this activity, participants collaborate to build a tower using wooden blocks and a crane.
20m–1h6–24Intermediate
FacilitationThis interactive simulation helps participants explore the importance of setting clear performance goals.
20m–40m3+Intermediate
FacilitationAn Unofficial Start is a low-key activity, puzzle or prompt placed in the room before the announced start time so that …
2m–15m2+Beginner
FacilitationVirtual Bingo engages participants by highlighting common virtual meeting distractions.
FlexibleAnyBeginner
FacilitationA facilitation stance rather than a structured activity …
5m–30m1–30Intermediate
FacilitationA self-assessment tool used in coaching and personal development.
20m–40m1–20Beginner
FacilitationThis matrix helps clarify who is accountable for specific tasks and when they will be completed.
15m–30m1–10Beginner
FacilitationIn this activity, participants draw a coat of arms that represents their leadership philosophy and values.
25m1+Beginner
A structured review session where design, product, or creative work is evaluated against specific goals …
30m–2h3–10Intermediate
Facilitation TechniquesA lightweight weekly or bi-weekly ritual where teams briefly review progress on their Key Results …
20m–45m2–10Beginner
Facilitation TechniquesParticipants are assigned specific discussion roles (e.g.
20m–1h4–20Beginner
Facilitation TechniquesOne participant acts as a 'sculptor' who positions other group members into a static scene that represents a situation …
20m–40m4–20Intermediate
Facilitation TechniquesA discussion format that deliberately slides the group structure up and down — from individual reflection to pairs …
30m–1h6–40Beginner
Facilitation TechniquesA structured consensus process where participants independently generate ideas on Post-it notes …
1h–2h5–10Intermediate
Ethos, Logos, Pathos is a feedback method drawing on Aristotle's principles of rhetoric to evaluate the persuasiveness …
10m–1h1–10Intermediate
FeedbackPlus/Delta is a feedback method designed to generate constructive insights by focusing on what went well and what …
10m–45m1+Beginner
FeedbackProject Jeopardy transforms mundane project status reports into an engaging and interactive game.
15m4–40Intermediate
FeedbackQuestion Balloons is a dynamic feedback method that allows participants to 'float' questions during a session …
30m4–40Intermediate
FeedbackRed:Green Cards is a feedback method designed to facilitate quick and clear communication of approval or disagreement …
1m20+Beginner
FeedbackStart, Stop, Continue is a straightforward feedback method that helps teams evaluate their actions and develop clear …
10m–1h1–10Beginner
FeedbackThe Status Center method transforms traditional status meetings by adopting engaging TV broadcast formats.
30m–4h4–40Intermediate
Each participant introduces themselves following the traditional Hawaiian order: place (where you're from) …
20m–1h4–20Beginner
IcebreakersParticipants write a short four-stanza personal poem using four prompts rooted in childhood memory …
40m–1h4–30Beginner
IcebreakersA reflective exercise that helps participants understand how everyday actions make deposits or withdrawals from the …
30m–45m4–30Beginner
IcebreakersA quick emotional temperature check where participants pass a patterned ball and choose a patch that represents their …
5m–15m4–20Beginner
IcebreakersParticipants craft a brief personal motto or epitaph that captures their core value.
30m–45m4–30Beginner
1-2-4-All is a structured method that engages every participant in generating ideas and solutions.
12m4+Beginner
Ideation25/10 Crowd Sourcing is a dynamic method for rapidly generating and evaluating a group's most compelling ideas.
30m10+Intermediate
IdeationThe 3-12-3 Brainstorm is a rapid ideation exercise designed to spark creativity and quick thinking.
21m–30m10+Intermediate
IdeationThe 4Cs method is a structured approach to explore and organize information about any topic using four key concepts …
30m–1h5–20Intermediate
Ideation6-8-5 encourages participants to quickly generate multiple ideas to overcome the tendency to settle on the first good …
30m–45m2–20Beginner
IdeationAffinity Mapping is a technique used to organize ideas and data into meaningful clusters.
10m–2h1–20Intermediate
IdeationAgile UX Sketching and Scrum is a collaborative sketching exercise designed to generate a wide array of ideas quickly …
25m–35m4+Intermediate
IdeationAI Landscape is a canvas-based workshop tool for finding the places in an existing service where AI could be built in.
2h–3h4–10Intermediate
IdeationAir Time Mastermind is a playful brainstorming activity designed to generate creative solutions to participants' …
30m–2h10–50Beginner
IdeationAnalogous Inspiration is a design-research technique from IDEO and IDEO.org in which a team looks for inspiration …
30m–1h3–8Intermediate
IdeationA structured exercise for surfacing and evaluating the hidden assumptions underlying a plan, strategy, or product idea.
30m–1h2–20Intermediate
IdeationThe 'Back of the Napkin' method encourages teams to brainstorm and capture their ideas on a napkin …
10m2+Beginner
IdeationBodystorming is an innovative approach to brainstorming that involves physical role-playing to explore and develop …
1h–2h3+Intermediate
IdeationEstablish clear rules for a brainstorming session to enhance creativity and collaboration.
1m–5mAnyBeginner
IdeationBrainwriting is a structured ideation method where participants silently generate and build on each other's ideas.
30m–45m5–15Beginner
IdeationBundle Ideas is a convergence step from IDEO.org's Design Kit in which a team combines the strongest parts of several …
1h–2h3–8Advanced
IdeationThe Button method is a dynamic alternative to the traditional round-robin approach …
15m–30m4+Beginner
IdeationCard Sort is a method used to organize and categorize information by arranging cards …
30m1+Intermediate
IdeationThe Carousel method is designed to gather diverse perspectives and insights on various aspects of a topic.
15m–1h5–50Intermediate
IdeationThis activity helps participants generate various examples related to specific communication categories.
20m–30m5+Beginner
IdeationTeams distill a solution concept onto a single poster as if they were designing a billboard or magazine ad for it.
30m–1h2–20Beginner
IdeationA fast ideation exercise from Google Design Sprints.
15m–25m1–30Beginner
IdeationThis method visualizes the steps a customer takes while using a product or service, along with their reactions.
4hAnyBeginner
IdeationA dérive (French for 'drift') is an unplanned walk through an area, usually a city …
1h–4h2–30Beginner
IdeationDesign The Box is a creative exercise where teams conceptualize and design a box to represent their product or idea.
1h4+Beginner
IdeationDiscovery & Action Dialogue helps groups identify effective local solutions to common challenges shared among members.
25m–1h5–15Intermediate
IdeationThe Disney Method is a creativity technique in which a person or group works on an idea from three separate positions …
45m–2h1–12Intermediate
IdeationDisruptive Brainstorming is a fast ideation format from the Atlassian Team Playbook in which two groups brainstorm in …
1h–1h3–11Intermediate
IdeationDiverge-Narrow-Converge with AI is an ideation structure for workshops in which participants generate ideas with an AI …
30m–45m3–30Intermediate
IdeationDraw Toast is an engaging activity that introduces participants to visual thinking, mental models, and systems thinking.
10m–15m1+Beginner
IdeationDrawing Together is a creative method that uses simple symbols to express complex ideas and emotions …
40m1+Beginner
IdeationA structured pair-discussion method where participants brainstorm with unfamiliar partners by rotating roles.
20m–40m6–30Beginner
IdeationThe Empathy Map is a tool designed to help teams gain a deeper understanding of their stakeholders …
20m1+Beginner
IdeationExploration Days are set-aside working time, typically a day or a 24-hour block …
8h–24h4+Intermediate
IdeationThis method uses five envelopes labeled with positive emotions: hopeful, joyful, peaceful, playful, and thankful.
30m–2h10–30Intermediate
IdeationThis activity helps groups generate ideas for achieving shared goals across teams or departments.
45m–3h2–10Advanced
IdeationThe Four-Step Sketch is a method that guides participants to develop ideas in a structured way.
2h1–12Beginner
IdeationFuture Folktales is a storytelling-based futures workshop in which participants start from a folktale that shaped them …
4h–12h5–50Advanced
IdeationThe Future Workshop method enables participants to envision their ideal future without constraints.
4hAnyIntermediate
IdeationThe Gamestorming Card Deck App is a digital tool designed to enhance innovation and problem-solving through playful …
5m1+Beginner
IdeationGraphic Jam is a visualization exercise aimed at transforming abstract concepts into visual representations.
30m–1h5–15Intermediate
IdeationThis activity encourages participants to envision the success of a project two decades into the future.
30mAnyIntermediate
IdeationHeart, Hand, Mind is a structured approach to evaluate an issue from emotional, practical, and logical perspectives.
10m–1h1–10Beginner
IdeationThe Heuristic Ideation Technique is a structured approach to idea generation using a matrix to explore new …
15m–2h1–10Intermediate
IdeationHomepage Bingo is an engaging ideation exercise where participants design a product or service homepage by ranking …
30m–1h3–10Intermediate
IdeationA reframing technique popularised by IDEO and the Stanford d.school that transforms problem statements and …
20m–45m2–30Beginner
IdeationUse the HoWoRiCha framework to examine complex topics through the lenses of Hopes, Worries, Risks, and Chances.
20m–30m5–25Beginner
IdeationThis method helps groups work together to generate and develop creative ideas.
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
IdeationImagining the Future is a one-hour individual visioning sequence run in a group: a breathing exercise …
1h1–40Intermediate
IdeationImprov Prototyping is a dynamic method where participants act out potential solutions to complex problems.
20m4+Intermediate
IdeationThe Innovation Generator is a structured ideation method designed to help teams identify and address customer needs by …
1h5–8Intermediate
IdeationInviting Non-Human Stakeholders is a perspective-taking exercise in which participants take the role of a non-human …
2h3–20Intermediate
IdeationA facilitation methodology developed by LEGO Group and academics.
2h–8h4–12Advanced
IdeationLightning Demos are quick presentations where team members share existing products or services that inspire their …
1h–2h2–12Beginner
IdeationParticipants draw a logo or image that represents their vision, idea, or project.
20m–40m2–30Beginner
IdeationA structured brainstorming technique developed by Yasuo Matsumura.
30m–1h1–20Intermediate
IdeationMake A World is an engaging method that encourages participants to visualize and construct a three-dimensional …
45m–2h8–20Intermediate
IdeationMash-Up Innovation is a collaborative technique where participants generate new ideas by combining different concepts.
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
IdeationMash-Ups is an ideation technique from the IDEO.org Design Kit that borrows a quality from a well-known brand or …
30m–45m3–8Intermediate
IdeationA mind map visually organizes ideas and concepts, allowing you to explore relationships and structure information.
30m1–20Beginner
IdeationMindSpin is a dynamic and energetic brainstorming method that encourages individual and group contributions.
15m–30m5–15Intermediate
IdeationMood Board is a creative method used to visually capture the essence and feel of an idea.
30m–2h1–10Beginner
IdeationThe Morphological Box is a systematic ideation method in which a problem is split into independent attributes …
45m–2h2–10Intermediate
IdeationNew Metaphors is a card-based workshop for reframing a complex issue by inventing new metaphors for it.
2h2–40Intermediate
IdeationA structured brainstorming technique that solicits anonymous written contributions from all participants before any …
15m–30m4–30Beginner
IdeationObject Brainstorm leverages tangible items to spark creativity and generate innovative ideas.
30m1+Intermediate
IdeationParticipants collaboratively construct a sentence by contributing one word at a time related to a chosen topic.
2m4–8Beginner
IdeationParty Invitations is a creative ideation exercise where participants design a metaphorical invitation for a product or …
30m–1h5–30Intermediate
IdeationPecha Kucha is a presentation method that encourages teams to collaboratively generate ideas using visual storytelling.
3h26–50Intermediate
IdeationPost-Up is a silent brainstorming technique where participants write ideas on sticky notes to encourage individual …
10m–1h1–50Beginner
IdeationThe Poster Session method encourages participants to condense their ideas into visual summaries …
20m10–100Intermediate
IdeationThis method helps participants define a problem or opportunity and brainstorm potential solutions.
3h–4h26–50Advanced
IdeationProduct Pinocchio is a creative exercise that personifies a product or service to explore and develop its features.
1h5–20Intermediate
IdeationQuaker Conversation is a structured method designed to ensure all voices in a group are heard equally …
30m4+Beginner
IdeationA lateral thinking technique developed by Edward de Bono.
20m–40m1–20Beginner
IdeationThe practice of building quick, cheap, tangible representations of ideas to test assumptions and generate feedback …
30m–2h2–12Beginner
IdeationThis exercise helps participants gather insights from people outside their group …
5m–30m2–40Beginner
IdeationThis method helps groups generate ideas quickly in a digital format …
15mAnyBeginner
IdeationA structured creativity checklist where each letter prompts a different angle of attack on an existing product …
30m–1h1–20Beginner
IdeationSignal Cards are a deck of short fictional news items from the future …
45m–2h4–24Intermediate
IdeationParticipants explore a topic together in complete silence — writing, drawing, connecting ideas with lines …
15m–30m4–30Beginner
IdeationSimple Ethnography allows participants to uncover innovative solutions by observing and engaging with individuals who …
5m1+Intermediate
IdeationCreated by Edward de Bono, this framework directs the group to wear six metaphorical 'thinking hats' …
45m–2h2–20Intermediate
IdeationSpectrum Mapping is a method used to visualize the range of perspectives within a group on a specific topic by …
30m–1h5–15Intermediate
IdeationStoryboard is a versatile method for visualizing and narrating an ideal future scenario through sequential images and …
45m–2h8–20Intermediate
IdeationSynesthesia is a creative ideation exercise that encourages participants to explore ideas through the lens of the five …
15m–45m2–5Intermediate
IdeationThe Inspiration Walk is an audio-guided solo walk of about 15 minutes …
35m–40m1–50Beginner
IdeationThis method utilizes six essential questions to develop and explore ideas comprehensively.
30m1+Intermediate
IdeationThis method encourages participants to envision their desired future by creating fictional objects.
1h–2h3–12Advanced
IdeationUnintended Consequences is an ideation exercise in which small groups list existing technologies or businesses …
30m–1h2–40Beginner
IdeationThe Video Card Family Game is a collaborative design technique that leverages video clips from ethnographic fieldwork …
7h–8h6–12Advanced
IdeationVisual Narratives is a half-day creativity challenge in which teams build a physical installation from personal …
3h–4h12–30Advanced
IdeationThis brainstorming method encourages participants to generate ideas while physically moving.
2m–15m2+Beginner
IdeationThis method encourages participants to collaboratively explore open questions and generate diverse ideas.
15m–20m5–10Beginner
IdeationA knowledge game is a structured form of play designed to foster learning and creativity through defined rules, goals …
30m–1h2+Intermediate
IdeationThe Wizard of Oz method is a role-play exercise where participants simulate a machine-human interaction to test or …
30m2+Intermediate
IdeationA liberating ideation technique that inverts the usual brainstorming prompt.
20m–40m2–20Beginner
A charrette is an intensive, multi-day collaborative design workshop in which a multidisciplinary team works on site …
32h–56h20+Advanced
Large GroupA consensus conference is a formal public deliberation in which a small panel of lay citizens questions experts on a …
56h–64h10–16Advanced
Large GroupFuture Search is a large-group planning conference, developed by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff …
16h–20hAnyAdvanced
Large GroupPolis is an open-source online tool and process for finding out what a large group thinks in its own words …
Flexible30+Advanced
Large GroupPro Action Café is a conversation format in which participants who bring a real project or question host a table …
2h–3h12+Intermediate
Large GroupA Promptathon is a time-boxed peer-learning event modelled on the hackathon, in which small teams write …
3h–8h20–200Intermediate
A recurring collaborative session where the Product Owner and development team review, clarify, estimate …
1h–2h3–9Intermediate
PlanningBuild The Checklist is a structured method for teams to create a comprehensive and prioritized list of tasks.
1h3–10Intermediate
PlanningA team agreement that defines the minimum criteria a backlog item must meet before it can be pulled into a Sprint.
30m–1h3–9Beginner
PlanningDesign StoryBoards is a method for creating a detailed and visual plan to guide group interactions and achieve a clear …
30m–1h2+Intermediate
PlanningEcocycle Planning is a strategic tool that helps teams evaluate their activities through the lenses of four …
1h4+Intermediate
PlanningEstablishing a workshop rhythm involves structuring activities to accommodate diverse thinking styles.
30m4+Intermediate
PlanningA structured conversation technique from BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development) that clarifies user stories by mapping out …
25m–45m3–6Intermediate
PlanningThe Graphic Gameplan is a visual planning tool designed to transform ideas into actionable steps.
30m–2h1+Intermediate
PlanningThe Hero's Journey Agenda is a dynamic way to outline a meeting or workshop agenda …
10m–15m1+Intermediate
PlanningA visual workflow management system that maps work items through defined stages (columns) with explicit limits on how …
1h–2h2–20Intermediate
PlanningThe Merrill Covey Matrix is a prioritization tool designed to help teams assess the urgency and importance of tasks …
1h5–8Beginner
PlanningPersonal Kanban is a visual tool for organizing tasks to enhance efficiency and productivity.
10m–15m1+Beginner
PlanningThe Pie Chart Agenda is a quick and flexible method for structuring a meeting by visually organizing time allocation …
1m–2m2+Beginner
PlanningPurpose-To-Practice (P2P) is a structured approach to collaboratively design initiatives by defining five key …
1h4+Intermediate
PlanningTheory U is a change and leadership framework developed by Otto Scharmer at MIT.
3h8+Advanced
PlanningThe Visual Agenda method enhances engagement and focus in meetings by transforming the agenda into a creative visual …
30m–1h3+Intermediate
ICE Scoring is a lightweight prioritisation framework popularised by growth practitioner Sean Ellis …
30m–1h2–12Beginner
PrioritizationRICE Scoring is a quantitative prioritisation framework developed by Sean McBride at Intercom and published in 2016.
1h–2h3–15Beginner
15% Solutions is a method that encourages participants to identify and act on small …
5m4+Beginner
Problem SolvingA3 Problem Solving is a practice pioneered at Toyota in which the whole story of a problem …
1h–2h2–8Intermediate
Problem SolvingAbstraction Laddering is a problem-framing technique that moves a problem statement up and down levels of abstraction …
20m–45m2–8Intermediate
Problem SolvingAction Learning is a method in which a small group meets repeatedly to work on real …
1h–2h4–8Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Agreement-Certainty Matching Matrix helps teams classify challenges as simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic.
40m4+Intermediate
Problem SolvingAI Scaling Blockers is a diagnostic canvas from Board of Innovation for teams whose AI pilots are not turning into …
1h–2h4–12Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Argument Map method facilitates structured debate by organizing arguments for and against a topic in a visual …
1h–3h5–30Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Behaviour Change Wheel is a framework for diagnosing why a desired behaviour is not happening and choosing …
1h–2h4–10Advanced
Problem SolvingA Black Mirror Brainstorm is a product design exercise in which small teams imagine their own product or feature as …
45m–1h3–20Beginner
Problem SolvingIn the Breaking News activity, participants analyze assumptions and implications of a specific theory after preparing …
45m–2hAnyBeginner
Problem SolvingA systems thinking tool for mapping the feedback loops, delays, and relationships between variables in a complex system.
1h–3h3–15Advanced
Problem SolvingChallenge Cards is a problem-solving method designed to identify and address potential challenges in products …
30m–1h5–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingChoose your words wisely is a method that uses the Semantic Environment Canvas to explore and understand the language …
20m–40m1–6Intermediate
Problem SolvingA concept map is a diagram that shows how the concepts in a subject relate to one another: each concept sits in a node …
45m–2h1–8Intermediate
Problem SolvingConnection Circles are an entry-level systems thinking tool: the elements of a situation are written around the edge …
30m–1h3–24Beginner
Problem SolvingThe Coriolis Effect is a dynamic team exercise focused on communication, collaboration, and problem-solving.
30m4–15Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Cultural Tensions Canvas is a one-page diagnostic tool, created by Gustavo Razzetti of Fearless Culture …
1h–2h5–7Intermediate
Problem SolvingDefine Your Challenges is a fast prioritisation exercise in which each person writes ten challenges facing the team or …
15m–30m4–20Beginner
Problem SolvingDependency Mapping is a one-hour team session that lists every system and team a project touches …
1h2–12Beginner
Problem SolvingA five-day intensive framework developed at Google Ventures by Jake Knapp.
24h4–8Advanced
Problem SolvingDo, Redo & Undo is a method that encourages teams to plan for potential mistakes and changes in their projects by …
1h3–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe emotional journey method visualizes a user's feelings while interacting with a service or product.
FlexibleAnyIntermediate
Problem SolvingThe Evaporating Cloud is a five-box logic diagram for resolving a conflict between two opposing actions …
45m–2h2–8Advanced
Problem SolvingCreated by Alberto Brandolini, Event Storming is a collaborative modelling workshop that brings together developers …
3h–8h6–30Advanced
Problem SolvingThis activity encourages participants to identify and explore positive reactions to everyday annoyances.
30m–2h10+Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis method focuses on understanding and enhancing client-centricity within an organization.
1h–2h2–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingFacilitating with Constraints is a method that uses defined boundaries to spark creativity and focus in problem-solving.
1h12–18Intermediate
Problem SolvingFlip It is a problem-solving method that encourages participants to transform negative perspectives into positive …
30m–1h5–20Intermediate
Problem SolvingForce Field Analysis is a structured method for evaluating the factors that drive or hinder a proposed change within …
30m–2h5–30Intermediate
Problem SolvingForum Theatre is a participatory theatre form in which a short scene shows a problem that ends badly for its main …
1h–3h8–40Advanced
Problem SolvingA Gemba Walk is a lean management practice of going to the place where the work is actually done …
30m–2h3–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingHelp Me Understand facilitates open communication between employees and leadership by allowing team members to express …
30m–2h5–25Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Iceberg Model is a systems-thinking tool that looks below a visible event through four levels: the event itself …
45m–2h3–15Intermediate
Problem SolvingParticipants take on different professional roles to work collaboratively on a fictional case.
2h4+Intermediate
Problem SolvingParticipants are challenged to defend a disciplinary perspective that is not their own.
1h–2h5+Intermediate
Problem SolvingDeveloped by Kaoru Ishikawa, this diagram visualises the causes of a problem in a structured fishbone shape.
30m–1h2–15Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis method helps participants break down a complex and ambiguous issue into clearer, manageable components.
Flexible1–20Advanced
Problem SolvingAn Issue Tree is a diagram that breaks a large problem or question into smaller parts that do not overlap and together …
45m–2h2–8Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis method helps groups clarify their main ideas when they are bogged down in details or lack a clear vision.
45m–1h1–20Beginner
Problem SolvingThis activity helps participants apply abstract leadership principles to practical workplace behaviors.
30m–2h6–30Beginner
Problem SolvingA Liberating Structure that uses creative destruction to help groups stop perpetuating counterproductive behaviours.
30m–1h5–100Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Lightning Decision Jam helps teams quickly identify and address challenges by encouraging structured thinking and …
45m–2h4–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingA real-world testing environment where new solutions, services …
1h–8h3–30Advanced
Problem SolvingThis method helps participants recognize and manage various behaviors during meetings.
1h–1h4–9Intermediate
Problem SolvingMap the Problem Space is a Stanford d.school activity in which you chart how a topic shows up on six layers: data …
30m–45m1–6Intermediate
Problem SolvingA paired walk helps build trust and mutual understanding while preparing for difficult conversations.
15m–30m2+Beginner
Problem SolvingThis activity helps participants identify ways to manage disruptive behaviors during training.
20m–45m3–60Beginner
Problem SolvingA Peer Assist is a structured meeting held before or early in a piece of work …
4h–16h8–16Intermediate
Problem SolvingA design research tool for creating realistic, composite representations of key user groups based on research data.
2h–3h2–12Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis exercise helps participants identify and share their strengths and weaknesses with one another before starting a …
45m4+Beginner
Problem SolvingA structured problem framing technique from the Stanford d.school design thinking process.
30m–1h2–12Intermediate
Problem SolvingPost The Path is a facilitation method designed to diagnose a group's understanding of a process by mapping it visually.
30m–1h2–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Productive Thinking Model is a six-step creative problem-solving framework published by Tim Hurson in his book …
1h–2h1–20Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis method helps individuals and teams outline the framework, goals, and initial steps for their project.
30m–2h2–10Beginner
Problem SolvingA soft systems methodology tool developed by Peter Checkland.
30m–1h1–20Beginner
Problem SolvingThis method facilitates idea sharing and feedback among breakout groups.
15m26–50Intermediate
Problem SolvingScenario Slider is a problem-solving exercise designed to test ideas by modeling them under various extreme scenarios …
1h–2h6+Intermediate
Problem SolvingScrummen helps teams track tasks across multiple projects by categorizing them into 'To Do,' 'In Process,' and 'Done.' …
30m–2hAnyBeginner
Problem SolvingShared Problem Definition is a role-play in which four to six people each represent a different professional or …
4h–5h4–6Advanced
Problem SolvingThis exercise demonstrates how emotions can spread amongst group members, both negatively and positively.
10m–15m10+Beginner
Problem SolvingThe Speed Boat method helps teams identify obstacles that hinder progress towards a goal or the development of a …
30m5–10Beginner
Problem SolvingSQUID, or Sequential Question and Insight Diagram, helps groups map out and navigate complex information spaces by …
30m2+Intermediate
Problem SolvingParticipants engage in a dialogue while assuming the perspectives of various stakeholders with conflicting interests.
2h20+Intermediate
Problem SolvingStaple Yourself to Something is a process-mapping game in which a group picks one object, such as an order …
1h–2h2–10Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis engaging activity encourages participants to share their fears and uncertainties related to the program theme.
15m–30m2–40Beginner
Problem SolvingThis activity helps team members identify and understand their strengths and weaknesses.
1h4+Beginner
Problem SolvingThe Team Charter method helps participants reflect on their strengths and weaknesses.
30m–2h2+Beginner
Problem SolvingTemperature Check helps visualise the feelings and opinions within a group.
20m–45m4+Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe 4E Model is a board-based serious game in which groups work through a complex societal question in four quadrants …
1h–2h4–40Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe 5 Whys method helps teams uncover the root cause of a problem by repeatedly asking 'why?' This technique …
30m–1h5–10Beginner
Problem SolvingThe Anti-Problem is a problem-solving game in which small teams work on the exact opposite of the problem the group is …
30m–45m5–20Beginner
Problem SolvingThe Blind Side is a facilitation method designed to reveal and address blind spots within a team or organization.
30m–45m5–15Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Volcano of Change is a visual scanning exercise in which a group sorts the issues it sees around a topic onto a …
2h–2h6–25Intermediate
Problem SolvingA Transect Walk is a planned walk across an area together with people who know it well …
3h–5h5–15Intermediate
Problem SolvingThis activity helps participants express and explore their views on trust in the workplace.
40m5–20Advanced
Problem SolvingThe Uncertainty Map is a team exercise for laying out what is unknown about a challenge and deciding how to deal with …
2h4–60Intermediate
Problem SolvingA structured one-on-one conversation with a user, customer, or stakeholder designed to surface needs, behaviours …
30m–1h2–3Intermediate
Problem SolvingA visual map of a user's experience with a product, service, or process over time.
1h–3h2–12Intermediate
Problem SolvingThe Wellbeing North Star method helps teams identify areas of improvement by evaluating what they like and dislike …
1h5–8Intermediate
Problem SolvingA Liberating Structure that surfaces the adaptive challenges and paradoxes that undermine conventional strategic …
25m–45m3–50Intermediate
Appreciative Interviews (AI) leverage the power of storytelling to uncover and amplify success within organizations.
30m4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingThe Boundary Matrix method helps teams from different disciplines communicate effectively by mapping out key …
1h–2h4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingCampfire is a storytelling activity that encourages participants to share work-related stories …
30m–45m8–20Beginner
Relationship BuildingThe Celebrity Interview method transforms a standard presentation into an engaging dialogue with a leader or expert …
1h4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingClean Language is a precise questioning technique developed by therapist David Grove in the 1980s.
30m–2h2–20Advanced
Relationship BuildingThe Code of Conduct method helps establish a shared understanding of group values and behaviors to foster mutual trust …
30m1–30Intermediate
Relationship BuildingThis exercise challenges participants to enhance their communication skills by collaboratively solving a puzzle.
1h–2h18+Advanced
Relationship BuildingThe Conversation Café method facilitates meaningful dialogue among participants …
1h4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingThe Fishbowl method fosters active listening and observation among participants by dividing them into 'players' and …
40m–45m8+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingGamestorming for Distributed Teams adapts traditional gamestorming techniques for remote teams …
1h4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingThe Gamestorming Photo Submission method encourages individuals to contribute to a collaborative platform by …
30m1+Beginner
Relationship BuildingThe Generative Relationships STAR method helps groups diagnose and improve their relational dynamics …
25m4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingHeard, Seen, Respected (HSR) is a method designed to enhance empathy and listening skills within a group.
35m4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingHelping Heuristics is a method designed to improve participants' understanding of their interaction patterns and …
15m3+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingImpromptu Networking is a dynamic method to quickly build connections and surface challenges within a group.
20m4+Beginner
Relationship BuildingImpromptu Speed Networking is a dynamic method to energize participants and foster connections …
20m12+Beginner
Relationship BuildingThis method leverages the power of games to foster collaboration and break down hierarchical barriers in the workplace.
30m–1h4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingJob or Joy is a relationship-building exercise designed to explore team members' likes and dislikes both in and …
1h5–8Beginner
Relationship BuildingLow-Tech Social Network helps participants introduce themselves and visualize their connections by creating a large …
25m–30m10+Beginner
Relationship BuildingMeeting Games explores the implicit and explicit games that occur within workplace meetings …
30m–1h4+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingMemory Wall is a collaborative exercise designed to foster appreciation and camaraderie within a team by visually …
45m–2h10–50Beginner
Relationship BuildingShow and Tell is a method that encourages participants to share personal artifacts that symbolize their perspectives …
30m–1h3+Beginner
Relationship BuildingShow Me Your Values is a workshop method designed to uncover the perceived values within an organization or initiative.
30m–45m5–10Intermediate
Relationship BuildingSocial Network Webbing helps groups visualize and enhance their existing network of relationships.
45m–1h2+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingTalking Chips is a method designed to manage group discussions by ensuring balanced participation.
30m–1h4–12Beginner
Relationship BuildingTroika Consulting is a peer-to-peer coaching method that helps participants gain insights into their challenges by …
15m3+Beginner
Relationship BuildingThe Users Experience Fishbowl is a dynamic method for sharing practical experiences between those with direct insights …
30m–1h10+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingThe Visual Glossary method helps teams establish a shared vocabulary by visually defining key terms.
30m–1h2–10Intermediate
Relationship BuildingWhat I Need From You (WINFY) is designed to improve communication and collaboration across different functions or …
55m–1h9+Intermediate
Relationship BuildingWise Crowds is a facilitation method that leverages collective intelligence and peer support to address individual …
15m–1h4–7Intermediate
Relationship BuildingWorld Café is a structured conversational process for engaging large groups in meaningful dialogue.
2h24+Intermediate
Actions for Retrospectives is a structured method to help teams reflect on past projects or events and identify …
1h5–8Intermediate
RetroDeveloped by the US Army, the After Action Review (AAR) is a structured debrief conducted immediately after a project …
30m–1h2–20Beginner
RetroAn Async Retrospective is a retrospective held in writing over several days or weeks instead of in a meeting: team …
30m–2h3+Intermediate
RetroThe Celebration Grid is a one-page chart for retrospectives that sorts recent work by the kind of behaviour it was (a …
30m–1h3–12Beginner
RetroCircles and Soup is a reflective method used to help teams identify factors they can control, influence …
1h5–8Intermediate
RetroA retrospective format that asks the team to reflect across four dimensions: what to Drop (stop doing entirely) …
45m–1h3–20Beginner
RetroEmpowerment Evaluation is a participatory approach to evaluation in which the people who run and take part in a …
2h–4hAnyIntermediate
RetroA retrospective framework using four prompts: Liked (what went well), Learned (new insights or skills gained) …
30m–50m3–25Beginner
RetroA visual retrospective using a hot air balloon metaphor.
40m–1h3–20Beginner
RetroThe Learning Matrix is a reflective exercise designed to evaluate past projects by identifying strengths …
1h5–8Intermediate
RetroA simple retrospective format that invites participants to surface emotions from a recent period or project.
30m–45m3–20Beginner
RetroA simple daily mood-tracking practice where each team member marks their mood at the end of each day on a shared …
1m–5m3–20Beginner
RetroThe Premortem, developed by psychologist Gary Klein and popularised by Daniel Kahneman in 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' …
30m–1h3–20Beginner
RetroA retrospective dialogue sheet is a large printed sheet, about A1 in size, covered with questions, quotes …
1h–2h3–8Beginner
RetroRitual Reset is a team session that lists every recurring ritual the team has, such as meetings, reviews …
1h–2h4–10Beginner
RetroA simple reflection tool using a plant metaphor. Roses represent positives and successes …
20m–40m2–30Beginner
RetroA visual retrospective technique using the metaphor of a sailboat at sea.
45m–1h3–20Beginner
RetroA visual retrospective using a racing car metaphor.
45m–1h4–20Beginner
RetroThe Sprint Retrospective is the Scrum event that closes each Sprint …
45m–3h3–10Intermediate
RetroA Scrum ceremony held at the end of each Sprint where the team demonstrates the working increment to stakeholders and …
30m–1h3–30Beginner
RetroA five-pointed retrospective framework introduced by Patrick Kua.
40m–1h3–20Beginner
RetroPopularised by Spotify, the Team Health Check is a regular ritual where teams self-assess across key dimensions of …
30m–1h3–15Beginner
RetroA retrospective technique that reconstructs the shared history of a team or project on a visual timeline.
45m–2h3–20Intermediate
RetroThis method helps groups reflect on a shared experience by progressing through three stages: What happened …
45m–1h5–50Intermediate
The 2 Brains: Tell it & Sell It method helps teams craft compelling pitches by combining logical facts with emotional …
30m–1h5–8Intermediate
Strategy20/20 Vision is a strategic prioritization exercise that helps teams identify and focus on the most valuable projects …
30m–2h5–10Intermediate
StrategyThe Four Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is an execution framework developed by FranklinCovey consultants Chris …
2h–3h4–25Intermediate
StrategyAARRR, known as 'Pirate Metrics' for its memorable acronym …
1h–2h3–20Beginner
StrategyA set of ten structured questions that help a team build shared understanding before a project begins …
4h–8h4–12Advanced
StrategyThe AI Opportunity Radar is a canvas from Board of Innovation for exploring where AI could matter for a business.
1h–2h3–8Intermediate
StrategyAlign on Your Impact Goals is an early-project exercise from IDEO.org's Design Kit in which a team and its …
1h4–12Intermediate
StrategyPublished by Igor Ansoff in the Harvard Business Review in 1957 …
45m–2h3–15Beginner
StrategyA strategic planning technique that begins with a vivid description of a desired future state …
1h–2h3–20Intermediate
StrategyDeveloped by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton at Harvard Business School and first published in the Harvard …
2h–4h4–20Advanced
StrategyDeveloped by the Boston Consulting Group in 1970, the BCG Matrix (Growth-Share Matrix) is a strategic portfolio …
1h–2h3–15Intermediate
StrategyThe Strategy Canvas is the central diagnostic and action-planning tool of Blue Ocean Strategy, developed by W.
2h–3h4–24Intermediate
StrategyBuilding Partnerships is a strategic workshop method that uses the Partnership Canvas to explore and visualize …
2h5+Intermediate
StrategyDeveloped by Alexander Osterwalder, the Business Model Canvas is a strategic management template that maps nine …
1h–3h2–12Intermediate
StrategyThe Business Model Kit is a visual tool from Board of Innovation for sketching a business model as a set of …
1h1–8Intermediate
StrategyThe Challenger Selling Model is a strategic workshop to develop customized sales strategies by balancing three key …
1h5–8Intermediate
StrategyCircles of Influence is a strategic method to identify and leverage your network for achieving business goals.
1h5–8Intermediate
StrategyCompetitive Landscape Mapping is a strategic visualization exercise that plots your organization and its competitors …
1h–2h4–15Intermediate
StrategyThe Context Map helps teams visualize external factors affecting their organization, enabling strategic foresight.
45m–2h5–25Intermediate
StrategyCore Competency Mapping is a strategic framework derived from the work of C.K.
2h–3h4–15Advanced
StrategyCover Story is a visionary exercise where participants imagine their organization achieving such extraordinary success …
1h–2h4+Intermediate
StrategyCritical Uncertainties is a strategic planning method that helps groups explore the impact of unpredictable factors on …
2h4+Intermediate
StrategyCrossfire is a dynamic debate method that encourages participants to explore opposing viewpoints on a topic.
2m–3m2–42Intermediate
StrategyThe Culture Design Canvas is a one-page framework by Gustavo Razzetti of Fearless Culture, published in 2019 …
2h–4h5–12Advanced
StrategyThe Customer-Centric method helps teams map out and identify key stakeholders and users who impact or are impacted by …
1h5–8Intermediate
StrategyThe 'Customer, Employee, Shareholder' method encourages participants to envision a business's future from different …
1h–3h1–10Intermediate
StrategyAn Ecosystem Map is a diagram of all the people, organisations and systems that influence a user and a service …
1h–2h4–20Intermediate
StrategyThe Elevator Pitch method helps groups succinctly articulate the essence of a product, service, or idea.
2h1+Intermediate
StrategyThe Experience Canvas is a one-page canvas that a project team fills in together to state which problem it is solving …
2h3–6Advanced
StrategyThe Four Actions Framework, also known as the ERRC Grid (Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create) …
1h–2h3–20Beginner
StrategyThe 'Friend or Foe?' method helps teams map out and analyze stakeholder relationships and their influence on a project.
1h5–15Intermediate
StrategyDeveloped by Dave Snowden and Cynthia Kurtz, Future Backwards is a strategic narrative tool that helps groups explore …
1h–2h5–30Intermediate
StrategyFuture Trends is a workshop from the Hyper Island toolbox in which a group names the trends likely to change its …
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
StrategyThe Futures Wheel was invented by Jerome Glenn in 1971 as a structured brainstorming technique for mapping the second …
45m–2h3–20Beginner
StrategyGamestormin' for the Unions in D.C. is a strategic workshop designed to invigorate union teams using a combination of …
2h–2h5–20Advanced
StrategyGoals, Signals, Measures is a 90-minute workshop from the Atlassian Team Playbook that defines what success looks like …
2h–2h6–8Intermediate
StrategyThe Golden Circle is a strategic communication and purpose framework developed by Simon Sinek …
45m–2h3–20Beginner
StrategyThe History Map method is a powerful tool for organizations to reflect on their past and use it to guide future …
30m–2h10–50Intermediate
StrategyHoshin Kanri (literally 'compass needle management' or 'direction management') is a Japanese strategic management …
2h–4h5–25Advanced
StrategyCreated by Gojko Adzic, Impact Mapping is a strategic planning technique that builds a mind-map connecting business …
1h–3h3–12Intermediate
StrategyThe Innovation Ambition Matrix is a strategic tool designed to help teams map out their innovation initiatives across …
1h5–8Intermediate
StrategyInnovation Portfolio Mapping is a group exercise in which a leadership or innovation team plots every running …
1h–2h4–12Intermediate
StrategyIntegrated~Autonomy helps groups balance the dual needs of integration and autonomy …
1h–2h8+Advanced
StrategyJobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a strategic framework developed by Clayton Christensen that reframes how you think about …
1h–2h3–12Intermediate
StrategyJourneyFolio is a structured framework for creating a personal narrative that goes beyond a traditional resume.
2h1+Intermediate
StrategyThe Lean Canvas is a one-page business model tool created by Ash Maurya, published in his 2012 book 'Running Lean'.
1h–2h2–12Beginner
StrategyManage What You Measure is a strategic workshop method designed to link customer behaviors with high-level …
30m–3h5–15Intermediate
StrategyMapping Business Models is a strategic method using the Business Model Canvas to visualize and analyze a company's …
15m1–6Intermediate
StrategyMapping Design Operations is a strategic exercise aimed at visualizing and understanding the role of Design Ops within …
15m1–6Intermediate
StrategyMapping Organizational Culture is a strategic method used to assess and visually represent the current cultural …
15m–2h1–6Intermediate
StrategyThe McKinsey 7-S Framework is a powerful organizational alignment model developed in the late 1970s by consultants Tom …
2h–3h4–20Intermediate
StrategyMeddlers is a tabletop game from Jurgen Appelo's Management 3.0 in which small groups build an organisational …
1h–2h3–30Intermediate
StrategyMin Specs is a strategic method used to streamline processes by identifying the essential rules that must be followed …
6m4+Intermediate
StrategyThe 'Navigate your market opportunities' method helps teams identify, evaluate …
2h–48h1–6Advanced
StrategyThe Nine Whys method helps groups uncover the core purpose of their work by repeatedly asking 'Why?' up to nine times.
20m4+Intermediate
StrategyThe North Star Metric (NSM) Workshop is a structured session for identifying, validating …
2h–3h4–20Intermediate
StrategyOGSM (Objectives, Goals, Strategies, Measures) is a one-page strategic planning framework originally developed by …
2h–4h4–15Intermediate
StrategyA structured facilitated session for a team or organisation to define their Objectives and Key Results for the …
2h–4h3–15Intermediate
StrategyA structured workshop for setting Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) …
2h–3h3–15Intermediate
StrategyThe Pain-Gain Map is a strategic tool used to explore the motivations and decisions of a key individual …
15m3–10Intermediate
StrategyPanarchy is a strategic method that helps participants understand the complex interdependencies within systems to …
2h4+Advanced
StrategyThe Paper Plate Challenge is a campaign-planning exercise in which each person lays a path of paper plates across the …
45m–2h4–30Intermediate
StrategyA structured environmental scanning tool for analysing the macro-level factors affecting an organisation or project.
45m–2h3–20Beginner
StrategyIntroduced by Michael E. Porter in his 1979 Harvard Business Review article …
1h–3h3–20Intermediate
StrategyPower Mapping is a campaign-strategy exercise that places every relevant person and organisation on a grid of how much …
1h–2h2–30Intermediate
StrategyThe Promises & Potential Map is a two-by-two worksheet for placing each of an organisation's offerings and ideas by …
45m–2h2–8Beginner
StrategyPrune The Future uses the metaphor of a tree to help groups visualize and shape future possibilities.
30m5–15Intermediate
StrategyThe Revenue Model Flowchart is a decision-tree tool from Board of Innovation that leads a team …
2h2–8Intermediate
StrategyThe SAFE-BOLD Framework is a strategic tool used to create compelling pitches by evaluating ideas across four …
1h5–8Intermediate
StrategyA strategic planning method developed at Royal Dutch Shell that helps organisations prepare for multiple possible …
2h–4h4–20Advanced
StrategyScenario Planning 2x2 is a strategy workshop method for exploring uncertainty.
2h–4h4–30Advanced
StrategyThe Scoping Canvas is a one-page template from Board of Innovation with eight boxes that a team fills in at the start …
2h–2h3–8Intermediate
StrategyA Seasonal Calendar is a participatory chart on which a group plots how several things rise and fall over a recurring …
1h–2h4–30Beginner
StrategyA Sensing Journey is a field visit in which small groups leave their usual setting to meet people and places that show …
4h–8h3+Advanced
StrategyA service design tool that maps the full delivery of a service …
2h–4h3–12Advanced
StrategyThe Six Paths Framework is a Blue Ocean Strategy tool developed by W.
1h–3h4–20Intermediate
StrategySOAR Analysis is a strategic planning framework developed by Jacqueline Stavros and colleagues in the early 2000s as …
1h–2h4–30Beginner
StrategyA diagnostic method for visualising informal communication, collaboration …
1h–2h5–100Advanced
StrategyThe Spectrum of Allies is a strategy map shaped like a half-circle with five wedges: active support, passive support …
45m–2h4–40Intermediate
StrategyA strategic tool for identifying, categorising, and planning engagement with all people and groups affected by or …
30m–1h2–15Beginner
StrategySTEEP Analysis is an environmental scanning framework that examines five macro-level forces shaping the context in …
45m–2h3–25Beginner
StrategyDeveloped by Jeff Patton, a User Story Map arranges user stories spatially to reveal the full scope of a product or …
2h–4h3–12Intermediate
StrategyStory of Change is a one-page framework for building the narrative behind an organisational change …
1h–2h3–10Intermediate
StrategyA Strategic Roadmap workshop translates high-level strategy into a time-phased plan that shows how the organization …
2h–3h4–20Intermediate
StrategyThe Strategy Map is a visual management tool developed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton as an extension of the …
2h–4h4–20Advanced
StrategySWOT Analysis is a strategic tool used to identify and evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities …
1h–2h5–20Intermediate
StrategyThe Pitch is a role-playing exercise that simulates a pitch to venture capitalists.
30m–2h4–12Intermediate
StrategyDeveloped by McKinsey consultants Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen Coley …
2h–3h4–25Intermediate
StrategyThree Horizons Mapping is a futures method in which a group charts a system as three overlapping curves over time: the …
2h–3h4–24Advanced
StrategyThe Transition Model Canvas is a one-page canvas for analysing a socio-technical transition …
2h–3h3–25Advanced
StrategyValue Chain Analysis, developed by Michael Porter in 'Competitive Advantage' (1985) …
2h–3h4–15Advanced
StrategyThe Value Map method helps teams visually prioritize features or elements by plotting them on a matrix based on group …
15m–2h5–30Intermediate
StrategyAlso by Alexander Osterwalder, this canvas zooms into two blocks of the BMC: the Customer Profile (jobs-to-be-done …
1h–2h2–12Intermediate
StrategyVUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) is a framework originally developed by the US Army War College …
1h–2h4–20Intermediate
StrategyWardley Mapping was developed by Simon Wardley, a former CEO who built the technique while trying to understand why IT …
2h–6h3–12Advanced
StrategyThe Whole Product Game helps teams identify unique selling points by examining a product through various customer …
1h5–8Intermediate
This activity encourages participants to learn about each other through self-created questions.
30m–1h2–40Beginner
Team Building36 Questions for Increasing Closeness is a structured self-disclosure exercise for pairs …
30m–1h2–40Intermediate
Team BuildingThe 9 Dimensions activity is designed to foster connections and enhance trust within a team.
20m–1h3+Beginner
Team BuildingAI Innovation Day is a half-day team session in which a team brainstorms where AI could help with its real work …
2h–4h3–11Beginner
Team BuildingAI Team Skills Map is a kickoff exercise in which a project team holds a guided conversation with an AI chat assistant …
20m–40m3–8Beginner
Team BuildingAI Working Agreements is a one-hour team session for co-creating explicit norms on when, why and how the team uses AI.
1h–1h2–10Beginner
Team BuildingThis workshop helps teams reflect on their alignment with shared goals while enhancing individual autonomy.
1h–2h2–40Advanced
Team BuildingParticipants reflect on their strengths through feedback from peers, helping to boost motivation and self-esteem.
10m–20m6–12Intermediate
Team BuildingThis icebreaker activity helps participants get acquainted quickly.
10m–15m5–10Beginner
Team BuildingThis team-building activity helps participants work together in a fun and challenging way.
40m–45m4–20Beginner
Team BuildingBlueStarOpoly is a giant floor board game for large groups in which several teams roll dice at the same time and move …
30m–45m30+Intermediate
Team BuildingThe Four Quadrants activity is a simple and engaging way to help participants share about themselves and build …
15m–30m3+Beginner
Team BuildingBus Trip is an engaging feedback activity that promotes positive exchanges among participants.
20m–45m10–30Beginner
Team BuildingCheck-in and check-out are simple processes that allow team members to express their current feelings and reflections.
5m–30m2–40Beginner
Team BuildingCheck-in questions help a team begin a session or project by facilitating open sharing.
5m–1h2–40Beginner
Team BuildingThe Collaboration Blueprint is a kick-off sequence for a mixed project team in which members state what they bring …
3h–3h4–10Intermediate
Team BuildingThis workshop guides teams through reflecting on past conflicts to establish effective conflict management guidelines.
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
Team BuildingIn this activity, participants take turns counting to a predetermined number without overlapping.
5m–30m10–40Beginner
Team BuildingThis activity helps participants discover shared experiences in a fun way.
5m–10m10–25Beginner
Team BuildingA Culture Contract is a written agreement, described by NOBL Collective …
1h–2h3–12Intermediate
Team BuildingThis session helps teams articulate their purpose and culture by collaboratively defining what they stand for and how …
1h–4h2–10Intermediate
Team BuildingThis method helps teams quickly prototype and test new ideas.
2h–4h2–10Intermediate
Team BuildingThe Diversity Index is a Management 3.0 practice in which a team scores how varied it is on dimensions it chooses …
30m–1h3–12Intermediate
Team BuildingParticipants engage in a collaborative drawing activity that fosters creativity and team bonding.
10m–30m4–200Beginner
Team BuildingEngineering Your Team OS is a team-development workshop from the Hyper Island toolbox that treats the way a team works …
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
Team BuildingThis quick activity gets participants engaged while they explore what makes a task exciting.
3m–5m15+Beginner
Team BuildingThis activity energizes participants and helps them connect by exploring what they have in common.
5m–10m5+Beginner
Team BuildingHigh Five Me is a team introduction exercise in which each person draws the outline of their hand and writes one …
20m–1h3–12Intermediate
Team BuildingThis activity encourages participants to reflect on their changing perspectives after a learning experience.
5m–15m4+Beginner
Team BuildingDeveloped by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955 …
45m–2h2–20Intermediate
Team BuildingThis icebreaker fosters connections and lightens the mood in a group.
Flexible5–20Beginner
Team BuildingKudo Cards are a peer-to-peer recognition practice from Jurgen Appelo's Management 3.0: anyone can write a short card …
15m–30m3+Beginner
Team BuildingThis activity helps participants identify essential leadership skills, attributes …
30mAnyBeginner
Team BuildingThis activity involves teams collaborating to build a LEGO structure while managing secret individual assignments.
1h–2h10–40Intermediate
Team BuildingThis method helps teams create a shared vision for the future by imagining their ideal scenario five years from now.
1h–2h6–30Beginner
Team BuildingThe Magic Box is a fun ice-breaking activity that helps participants share something personal while connecting to the …
1m–15m1–16Beginner
Team BuildingMagical Gifts is a short closing exercise in pairs in which one person answers a reflective prompt and the partner …
5m–10m2+Beginner
Team BuildingParticipants are divided into teams to construct the tallest free-standing structure using limited materials.
30m–2h2–40Intermediate
Team BuildingMinefield is a trust and communication exercise in which a blindfolded person crosses an area scattered with objects …
20m–40m6–20Intermediate
Team BuildingThe Mirror Walk is a silent outdoor exercise in pairs in which one partner, eyes closed, is led by the other to touch …
35m–45m4–40Intermediate
Team BuildingDeveloped by Jurgen Appelo, this Management 3.0 exercise uses ten motivation cards — Curiosity, Freedom, Goal, Honor …
20m–45m1–20Beginner
Team BuildingMy User Manual is a team exercise in which each member writes a short guide to working with them: how they prefer to …
1h–2h3–10Beginner
Team BuildingConduct a workshop where team members use the Myers-Briggs personality model to explore their own traits and improve …
1h–2h2–40Intermediate
Team BuildingThe NVC Team Check-in is a structured team maintenance session in which members write and read out appreciations …
1h–2h3–30Advanced
Team BuildingObject Metaphor is a check-in activity in which each participant chooses a physical object from a varied collection …
15m–25m3–30Beginner
Team BuildingPaper Cranes is a collective making challenge in which table groups fold as many origami cranes as they can towards a …
20m–1h10–300Intermediate
Team BuildingA Personal Map is a mind map about a person: the name sits in the centre and branches such as home, education, work …
30m–1h2–30Beginner
Team BuildingA PowerPoint Party is a social event in which each participant prepares and presents a short …
1h–2h3–20Beginner
Team BuildingThe Psychological Safety Ladder Canvas is a team assessment tool created by Gustavo Razzetti of Fearless Culture in …
1h–2h4–12Advanced
Team BuildingRandom Coffee is a standing programme that pairs colleagues at random, on a fixed rhythm …
20m–30m4+Beginner
Team BuildingRoles and Responsibilities is a team workshop in which each member writes down what they believe their own …
1h–2h2–8Intermediate
Team BuildingThis method helps participants express their feelings in a fun, visual way using the metaphor of a rollercoaster.
5m–1h2–40Beginner
Team BuildingA Skill Swap is a recurring series of short peer-teaching sessions in which team members take turns teaching one …
15m–20m3+Beginner
Team BuildingThis activity energizes participants while helping them learn about each other in a fun way.
20m–40m8–50Beginner
Team BuildingSound Ball is an energizing icebreaker that enhances teamwork and encourages spontaneity.
10m–30m5–50Beginner
Team BuildingA Story Slam is an open-mic event in which volunteers tell true, personal stories on a shared theme …
1h–2h10–100Intermediate
Team BuildingThis exercise helps participants recognize their strengths and achievements …
15m4+Intermediate
Team BuildingThis activity enables team members to recognize and share their individual strengths while enhancing team engagement.
40m–1h5–40Beginner
Team BuildingA structured alignment tool developed by Alex Ivanov that helps teams get on the same page about purpose, roles, goals …
1h–2h3–12Intermediate
Team BuildingThis method focuses on improving interpersonal relationships within professional settings.
20m2+Intermediate
Team BuildingThis method helps teams examine their collaborative processes by reflecting individually and collectively.
1h–2h2–10Intermediate
Team BuildingThis method facilitates trust and openness among team members through structured storytelling.
1h–2h2–40Advanced
Team BuildingThis activity helps team members assess their individual trust levels towards each other.
FlexibleAnyBeginner
Team BuildingValue Stories is a Management 3.0 practice by Jurgen Appelo for defining team or organisational values from real …
1h–2h3–20Intermediate
Team BuildingWelcome to My World is a team game in which pairs from different roles each draw how they imagine the other person's …
30m–1h8–20Beginner
Team BuildingWerewolf is a social deduction game that sets a small informed minority, the werewolves …
30m–1h8–20Intermediate
Team BuildingThis engaging exercise encourages participants to reflect on their roles and feelings regarding a specific topic in …
10mAnyBeginner
Team BuildingA Work Expo is an exhibition a team builds about its own work to make its purpose and values visible.
1h–2h3–15Beginner
Team BuildingA collaborative process for establishing explicit agreements about how a team will work together.
20m–45m2–20Beginner
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