Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Ecosystem Map
Ecosystem mapping visualizes the context of a service or product. It reveals actors, relationships, and influences impacting the user experience beyon...
Ecosystem Mapping
Map your product or service's ecosystem. Visualize actors, stakeholders, and their interactions. This reveals complexity and pinpoints where you can m...
Ask the Experts
Interview stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather insights. Experts share knowledge while the team captures notes and identifies opportuniti...
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...
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...
Concept Selection
Choose the strongest concepts to move forward using varied evaluation methods. Balance intuition with structured analysis to select ideas with the hig...
Storyboarding
Create comic strip-style stories to visualize user scenarios. Each storyboard shows user context, problem, solution interaction, and outcome in 6-8 pa...
What, So What, Now What?
Use this structured debrief to help teams make sense of shared experiences. It guides teams from observations to implications, leading to clear action...
Tomorrow's Narratives
Explore future service scenarios through storytelling. This exercise helps teams prepare for various possibilities and envision implications.
Service Blueprint
Service blueprints map both customer-facing ('frontstage') and behind-the-scenes ('backstage') activities. This exercise maps dependencies and reveals...
Offering Map
This exercise creates a visual map of your organization's products, services, and value propositions. It reveals the relationships and dependencies be...
SDT-Futures Wheel
The Futures Wheel is a brainstorming method to visualize the cascading consequences of trends, events, or decisions. This technique helps teams think ...
Inclusive Meetings
Use these techniques to make sure everyone contributes during meetings. These simple practices ensure all voices are heard, especially from quieter te...
Stinky Fish
This vulnerability exercise transforms team dynamics. It surfaces unspoken anxieties before they impact your work. Teams draw fish and fill them with ...
Success Metrics
This exercise helps teams define measurable indicators to show if a service is hitting its goals and delivering value. It ensures you're tracking the ...
Stakeholder Impact Mapping
Stakeholder Impact Mapping reveals how solutions affect different groups. It highlights impacts teams often miss. In 78 minutes, you'll prevent soluti...
Accessibility Evaluation Protocol
Audit accessibility early to avoid costly fixes later. Evaluate against WCAG, user needs, and assistive tech. Finding problems in design is cheaper th...
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 ...
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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!