Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
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.
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...
Research Plan Creation
This exercise turns vague research ideas into solid plans. Teams define goals, pick methods, and plan recruitment. They'll also map timelines and thin...
Touchpoint Identification
Customers don't follow a straight path with your product. It's a series of interactions with your brand. Touchpoint Identification maps every interact...
Future Scenario Mapping
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...
Signal Cards
Use provocative cards depicting future situations to spark new service ideas. The cards help you think about emerging trends and alternative futures. ...
Rapid Sketching
Speed crushes perfectionism. Rapid sketching forces ideas out before overthinking kicks in. Many think they can't sketch, which is why this works. Giv...
Reaction Cards
Customers struggle to express feelings. Reaction Cards provides the vocabulary. Using adjective cards (energetic, trustworthy, innovative, overwhelmin...
Yes, And
Use "Yes, And" to build on ideas together. It creates a culture of expansion. Forget restriction.
4-Up
Kill perfectionism through sheer speed. Four minutes to sketch four different solutions forces your brain to move past the obvious first idea. This wo...
Impact Journey
This tool helps you analyze how service experiences affect well-being, society, and the environment. Use it to generate ideas for more sustainable and...
AI Ecosystem Mapping
Confused by the AI hype? Map the AI landscape to make smart investments. See what's available, what's coming, and what competitors are doing. Most com...
Root Cause Analysis
Stop fixing symptoms and start solving problems. Root cause analysis digs beneath surface issues to find system failures. Most organizations solve the...
Stakeholders Map
Create a visual map of everyone with a stake in your project. See relationships, power dynamics, and communication needs across your ecosystem. This h...
Problem Framing
Teams often rush to solutions before fully understanding the problem. Problem framing intentionally slows down the process. It ensures you're solving ...
Affinity Mapping
Affinity mapping helps you organize insights into themes. It turns chaos into clarity. Use it to find connections you might otherwise miss. It's great...
RACI Matrix Development
Use a RACI matrix to clarify roles and responsibilities. It identifies who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for key activities or ...
Product Vision Statement
This exercise aligns your team around a clear product vision. Participants will each draft a one-sentence vision. The team then synthesizes these into...
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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!