Library of facilitation techniques

You can help a group move from either-or conflicts to both-and strategies and solutions. You can engage everyone in sharper strategic thinking, mutual understanding, and collaborative action by surfacing the advantage of being both more integrated and more autonomous. Attending to paradox will reveal opportunities for profound leaps in performance by addressing questions such as: What mix of integrative control and autonomous freedom will advance our purpose? Where do our needs for global fidelity and consistency meet the needs for local customization and creative adaptability? This makes it possible to avoid bipolar swings in strategy that are frequently experienced by many organizations.

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

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

Participants find other participants’ LinkedIn profiles (or other social media) and search for specific information to relay during program icebreakers.

Sometimes a number of people are silent and there is not necessarily a dominant person in the group. This often happens in cultures where being assertive is not valued.

An engaging variation on a feedback activity that focuses on future changes and positive action, rather than dwelling on what went wrong.

In pairs, each person gives a "magical" gift to their partner that relates to what their partner has shared with them. 

Find new opportunities by testing the limit of what's possible? Sometimes getting unstuck means zooming out and then dreaming big. Here's your opportunity to get fantastical. Don't worry about viability or resources, worry about saving the world.

Show and Tell taps into the power of metaphors to reveal players’ underlying assumptions and associations around a topic

The aim of the game is to get a deeper understanding of stakeholders’ perspectives on anything—a new project, an organizational restructuring, a shift in the company’s vision or team dynamic.

A blend of Open Space and World Cafe that gets large groups of people working on action, in a co-creative, peer coaching environment.

Let your participants enjoy fresh air while talking about serious topics

Vivid way to structure a discussion for a complex topic.