Use Craig Raine's poem A Martian Sends a Postcard Home to spur creative thinking and encourage perspective shifting in a group. After a warm-up, you can then use this martian perspective to describe your product or service and gain new insights and ideas.
Brief active response during a presentation or (shudder) lecture, can take 2 minutes or 10, can be silent or voiced.
Participants tell a story of a shared (fictional) memory, adding details one at a time to create a cohesive picture and narrative.
Individuals express their response to a statement or idea by standing closer or further from a central object. Used with teams to reveal system, hidden patterns, perspectives.
Close eyes, then everyone looks across circle at another player and if they make eye contact they scream dramatically and leave the game.
Build personas of ideas, products or experiences.
Imagine your product is a person. What's its name? What would its ideal date night be? Does it prefer the beach or the woods? This exercise is a playful way to nail down the essence of your idea, product, or service. Use it in ideation or as a way to hone an existing concept.
Build empathy by retelling someone's story.
You may be a trustworthy computer programmer but nobody may trust your ability to manage a project. You may trust your surgeon to do brain surgery—but not to give you financial advice.
Trustworthy differentiates behaviors and traits that contribute to trustworthiness in different situations (such as predictability) and other behaviors and traits that are limited to specific situations (such as surgical expertise).
Creativity through pictures and images
Build common understanding about culture, customer, future, strategy or next needed steps for a team or organisation based on the Agile Manifesto.