Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Lightning Demos
Get inspired by solutions from various industries. Participants research 2-3 examples and present them in 3-minute demos. Look for patterns and transf...
Service Specifications
Service specifications document every touchpoint, feature, and interaction. They guide design and implementation.
Pattern Library Mapping
Pattern Library Mapping visually inventories UI patterns in your product. Before building a design system, understand existing patterns, their locatio...
Post-Up
Participants write ideas on virtual sticky notes and post them to a shared online board. This method quickly gathers input from the whole group. It's ...
Appreciative Interviews
Instead of dwelling on problems, build on successes. Use paired interviews to uncover peak experiences. Participants explore conditions that enable th...
Affinity Diagramming
Transform scattered ideas into actionable insights. This exercise uses collaborative sorting to reveal patterns in Post-Up sticky notes. Participants ...
Importance/urgency Chart
Use the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize ideas. Sort items by importance and urgency. This helps decide what to do now and where to focus resources.
Manifesto Refinement
You have a draft manifesto. Now, make it powerful. Manifesto Refinement transforms initial statements into memorable, actionable, and distinctive prin...
Trend Impact Assessment
Trend Impact Assessment evaluates how current and future trends affect an organization or system. It combines trend analysis with impact evaluation. T...
Provocations
Teams often develop comfortable ways of thinking that become invisible constraints. The Provocations Exercise uses challenging statements to disrupt c...
Impact/effort Chart
The Impact/Effort Chart is a 2x2 matrix. Use it to prioritize tasks. Plot tasks based on potential impact versus the effort to implement them. This he...
Signal Cards
Use provocative cards depicting future situations to spark new service ideas. The cards help you think about emerging trends and alternative futures. ...
Check-in/Check-out
Start and end sessions with mindful sharing. Check-ins help people arrive mentally and emotionally. Check-outs process learning and close intentionall...
Scenario Planning
Scenario planning helps organizations navigate uncertainty by creating multiple plausible future narratives. Instead of predicting a single future, de...
Benchmark Creation Protocol
Benchmarking shows your current state, letting you track progress. This exercise sets initial metrics for usability, satisfaction, or other UX aspects...
What? So What? Now What?
This exercise uses a structured reflection model. It guides your team from describing an experience to interpreting its significance, then planning fu...
Ask the Experts
Interview stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather insights. Experts share knowledge while the team captures notes and identifies opportuniti...
LS - 15% Solutions
Feeling stuck? Focus on your 15%. What can you influence *now*, without permission or extra resources? This exercise surfaces immediate actions to red...
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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!