Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas puts your entire business on one page. This forces clarity on how you create, deliver, and capture value. It's a thinking to...
Ideation Rules
This exercise sets ground rules for effective brainstorming. It fosters psychological safety, encourages wild ideas, and promotes building on each oth...
AF - Motivations
Go beyond stated user needs to uncover the real "why." Surface-level requests often hide deeper motivations. For example, "I want it faster" could mea...
T-Chart
Use a T-chart to compare ideas or decisions. This simple tool analyzes options through contrasting lenses. Think pros/cons, before/after, or facts/opi...
RICE
The RICE scoring model helps teams prioritize initiatives based on Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. It delivers a calculated priority score for ...
Tomorrow's Narratives
Explore future service scenarios through storytelling. This exercise helps teams prepare for various possibilities and envision implications.
Experience Map
Experience maps provide a holistic view of the user's world. They go beyond journey maps to capture the full experience ecosystem, including environme...
How-Now-Wow
The How-Now-Wow matrix helps teams select ideas. It categorizes them by originality and how easy they are to implement. This 2x2 matrix highlights inn...
Love/Viability Matrix
Prioritize product features based on user desire and build feasibility. Focus on the intersection of user love and execution reality. Aim for a Most L...
Co-Creation Workshop
A co-creation workshop unites stakeholders to design solutions. Participants become equal partners. They combine perspectives to generate innovative i...
Service Safari
Service Safaris are field research. Teams experience real-world services as customers. They document the journey, touchpoints, and service quality. Th...
System Scenario
This exercise expands scenario development to consider system-wide changes. Explore how services function within larger social, economic, and environm...
4L's
The 4 L's retrospective helps teams reflect on workshops or projects. It uses four perspectives: Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For. This gives a ...
Behaviour Change Wheel
This exercise provides a structured way to design behavior change interventions. It uses the COM-B model to analyze capability, opportunity, and motiv...
Scenario Planning
Scenario planning helps organizations navigate uncertainty by creating multiple plausible future narratives. Instead of predicting a single future, de...
Competitive Alternative Identification
Customers weigh all options, not just direct competitors. Competitive Alternative Identification maps these choices to reveal hidden competition. This...
Design Token Exploration
Design tokens are the core of your design system. They are colors, spacing, typography, and other values that ensure consistency. This exercise helps ...
User Interview Guide
A user interview guide helps you conduct consistent, thorough interviews. It's a structured, flexible document with questions and prompts to uncover u...
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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!