Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Customer Touchpoint Map
A customer touchpoint map visualizes all interactions between a customer and your organization. It helps you understand how customers connect with you...
Storyboard
Storyboards visually narrate user interactions with a product or service. They use sketches or images in panels to show the user experience over time....
Personas
Personas represent key user types. They range from behavior patterns to detailed profiles with needs and backgrounds. Use them to focus design on real...
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...
Value Proposition Deep Dive
Stop marketing with surface-level claims. Understand why customers *really* choose you. This exercise helps you understand customer decision-making at...
Value Proposition Canvas
The Value Proposition Canvas links your offering to real customer needs. Many products fail because teams build what *they* think is valuable, not wha...
AF - Playground
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...
Skills Gap Analysis
Don't let hidden skill gaps derail projects. Skills gap analysis compares necessary skills with your team's current abilities. This reveals where you ...
How Might We
Turn problems into opportunities using optimistic questions. Reframe problem statements and insights into actionable "How might we..." questions. This...
Moment of Truth
Moments of Truth are pivotal customer interactions that forge lasting impressions and significantly sway decisions. They profoundly shape customer per...
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 ...
Signal Cards
Use provocative cards depicting future situations to spark new service ideas. The cards help you think about emerging trends and alternative futures. ...
Principles Testing
Principles look great, but do they hold up? Principles Testing applies your draft principles to real decisions to see if they're useful. This exercise...
Impromptu Networking
Start with paired conversations to quickly share challenges and expectations. This exercise builds connections and surfaces diverse viewpoints right f...
Straw Poll
Team members vote for their favorite solution using a large dot sticker. This reveals team preferences before the Decider makes the final choice.
Problem Framing
Teams often rush to solutions before fully understanding the problem. Problem framing intentionally slows down the process. It ensures you're solving ...
Inclusive Meetings
Use these techniques to make sure everyone contributes during meetings. These simple practices ensure all voices are heard, especially from quieter te...
Ecosystem Loops
Map circular value flows and feedback loops in service ecosystems. Pinpoint key areas for sustainable and regenerative service design. This exercise h...
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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!