Building Psychological Safety
Exercises
Core activities to drive collaboration and results.
Atlassian - Demo Trust
This exercise builds trust and psychological safety through structured sharing. It's based on Patrick Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team." It hel...
Atlassian-Empathy Mapping
Use Atlassian's empathy mapping to turn customer insights into improvements. This structured exercise explores personas and pain points. It ensures ne...
Empathy And Value Alignment
It's common for teams to either over-empathize without shipping or ship without understanding user needs. This exercise bridges that gap. It helps tea...
Empathy Interviews
Empathy interviews uncover user needs through one-on-one conversations. Focus on stories, not opinions. Ask "why" to go deeper. Observe body language ...
Empathy Mapping
An empathy map helps teams deeply understand their users. It's a visual tool for capturing user needs, thoughts, and feelings. The map is divided into...
IDEO - Get Feedback
Getting feedback on your ideas and prototypes is key during ideation. It ensures you keep the target users at the center of your project. This exercis...
IDEO - Integrate Feedback And Iterate
Incorporating user feedback is key to human-centered design. This exercise helps you refine ideas based on prototype testing. It's part of the LUMA co...
IDEO - Keep Getting Feedback
Collecting feedback from your users is essential. It's a continuous process that keeps your design user-centered as you move forward. Regular feedback...
Open Roadmap
Create a transparent project roadmap. Show planned work, priorities, and decisions clearly. Share it openly with your community or stakeholders. This ...
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This workshop was incredibly effective for our remote team! We adapted it slightly for a virtual setting and it worked wonderfully. The key was breaking into smaller breakout rooms.
Great resource! One tip: prepare all materials the day before to avoid any last-minute rushes.
Used this for our quarterly planning session. The structured approach really helped us stay on track!