Quote for the Day
Using Quote to inspire team and promote trust.
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Empires
This activity could work between sessions as an energiser or an icebreaker. It builds on participants' memory and communication.
Finding Our Direction: The 5 questions
An activity to identify the direction in which your work should be moving.
Chat Waterfall
Using the chat in zoom, participants share ideas / challenges and then additions / solutions.
500 year gap
In pairs, one person describes a modern appliance to someone from 500 years ago
Flamingo & Penguins
Take 5-10 minutes time to wake up group's body & brain!
Spectrum Mapping
Spectrum mapping is designed to reveal the diversity of perspectives and options around any given topic and to organize them into a meaningful spectrum. It’s valuable because it unearths information that plays a role in attitudes and behaviours that otherwise may not be visible.
Back to Back
This is an energetic improv game that can be used anytime during a training session. My favourite time to use it is at the end of a session for debriefing.
Participants pair up and stand back-to-back. The facilitator asks a question. The participants turn around and face each other and take turns sharing their responses.
Reaching consensus around several alternatives
A polling process for any workshop where a decision between several alternatives is hard to reach
Customer Service Categories
Players take turns to supply items that belong to a specific category related to customer service. Any player who hesitates too long, repeats a previous item, or supplies an inappropriate item is eliminated. The last player left standing wins the game.
Systems Thinking: The Iceberg Model
Systems thinking is a way of approaching problems that asks how various elements within a system — which could be an ecosystem, an organization, or something more dispersed such as a supply chain — influence one another. Rather than reacting to individual problems that arise, a systems thinker will ask about relationships to other activities within the system, look for patterns over time, and seek root causes.
Email Questions
A virtual asynchronous start for an issues or problem solving workshop.