Story Around the Circle
Creating a story together can be merely for fun, or it can help the team imagine its future or recall its past.
Library of facilitation techniques
Remote Workshop Activities
Activities suitable for virtual and online workshops and meetings. Get your remote meetings engaging and productive with tools and techniques that foster participation and get everyone contributing.
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The Desert Island
Many of us have played a game similar to this before - if you were stranded on a desert island, what essential items would you choose to survive?
Participants are given a list of items to choose from and must work together to decide which items will help them stay alive.
A great, remote-friendly exercise for a team to work together and share opinions.
Blind Drawing
Test your communication and interpretation skills with Blind Drawing!
The Stinky Fish Canvas
The Stinky Fish Canvas is a visual way to address the problems teams carry around: the longer we void the conversation, the stinkier our issues get.
Sit - Stand - Disappear
As a virtual game in Zoom, have people narrow their screen so they only see 3 people in a row. Each person will simultaneously try to have one person sitting, one standing , and one out of the frame in their row.
My Favourite Manager
Participants work individually, assuming the roles of three different people and brainstorming their perceptions of three most favourite managers and three least favourite managers. Later, they work with a partner (and still later, in teams) to prepare a list of dos and don't-s for improving employees' perception of a manager's style.
Game Breaks (Word Search) for Online Facilitation
Team energiser for a virtual classroom or web conference meeting
Forced Analogy
People compare something (e.g. themselves, their company, their team) to an object.
I'll take that fear
People share a fear, it is received by another, and then they are asked to share the advice that a trusted mentor or friend would give them.
Whiteboard Rotation
Using multiple digital whiteboards, participants float to different whiteboards to add their thoughts, contributions, or questions. Final whiteboards are discussed and reviewed.
The Time Machine
Encourage creative thinking and getting to know each other better with a short round of 'time travel' questions to each of your participants.
Two Lies and a Truth
This is a well-known and simple ice-breaker, designed to get to know the other members of your team well, as well as practicing your own poker face!