Exercises

Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.

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Journey Map

4 hours

Journey mapping visualizes a person's process to achieve a goal. It's a holistic view of interactions with an organization, service, or product over t...

Stakeholder Impact Mapping

1.3 hours 1

Stakeholder Impact Mapping reveals how solutions affect different groups. It highlights impacts teams often miss. In 78 minutes, you'll prevent soluti...

Storyboarding

45 mins 1

Create comic strip-style stories to visualize user scenarios. Each storyboard shows user context, problem, solution interaction, and outcome in 6-8 pa...

Dynamic Personas

2.5 hours

Evolve your personas to anticipate user behavior. Identify key design interventions that guide users toward desired future states. This exercise helps...

Journey Stage Breakdown

2 hours

Customer journeys are continuous, but teams need stages for analysis. Journey Stage Breakdown divides the journey. This helps focus improvement effort...

Fist of Five

5 mins

Use hand signals for a quick consensus check. Participants show 0-5 fingers to indicate their agreement level with a proposal. This is a fast way to g...

What, So What, Now What?

45 mins

Use this structured debrief to help teams make sense of shared experiences. It guides teams from observations to implications, leading to clear action...

Provocations

2 hours

Teams often develop comfortable ways of thinking that become invisible constraints. The Provocations Exercise uses challenging statements to disrupt c...

Playback

1 hour

A Playback session lets participants present their work, insights, and takeaways from an activity or workshop. It builds alignment and shared understa...

AF - Playground

30 mins

Want to create a safe space for weird ideas? Innovation workshops often fail because people are afraid to take creative risks. A playground removes th...

Concept Walkthrough

1.5 hours 1

Walk stakeholders through service concepts to get feedback. Validate ideas and improve service design before launch. This exercise helps align everyon...

Principle Creation Sprint

2.4 hours

Principles often need rapid creation, not slow consensus. The Principle Creation Sprint generates 15-25 design principles in 2.5 hours. Use this inten...

Moment of Truth

45 mins

Moments of Truth are pivotal customer interactions that forge lasting impressions and significantly sway decisions. They profoundly shape customer per...

How Might We

20 mins

Turn problems into opportunities using optimistic questions. Reframe problem statements and insights into actionable "How might we..." questions. This...

Jobs To Be Done

2 hours

Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) helps you understand why people "hire" products or services. It's about the progress people seek, not just their demographics. ...

Content Type Mapping

2 hours

Before you build, map your content. Content type mapping identifies each content type, its attributes, relationships, and purpose. Unplanned content m...

Visual Design Style Exploration

2 hours

Explore multiple visual directions before settling on a single style. Style exploration generates various aesthetic approaches. This helps determine w...

Future Scenario Mapping

2 hours

Imagine your team needs to prepare for a future that hasn't happened yet. Future Scenario Mapping helps strategic teams stress-test plans against poss...