Pleasure and Gain
The Pleasure and Gain activity is great for talking about all work related things and how does if affects each participant (in relation to being pleasant or not), and how[…]
SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
SWOT is a team building that helps team members to better understand each others strengths and weaknesses, as well as find opportunities and threats that they might face together. It[…]
The roles we play
The roles we play is a team building activity to trigger a conversation about all the roles we play in our lives. It is especially useful for a diverse group[…]
Anonymous Note
This checkin activity enables the facilitator to verify if he could carry the following activities by asking the participants to read their own notes. At times, some participants wants to[…]
Marginal Gains
The marginal gains instigate the participants to look for quick wins, the little things that could easily be done, adding up to great improvements. It is a retrospective activity for[…]
Effort and Pain
The Effort and Pain is a filtering activity to help the participants prioritize the retrospective items to be worked on. Running the activity 1.Draw the Effort versus pain graph with[…]
Hero’s Journey
The hero’s journey is a futurespective activity to help describing a story a team is pursuing. It is inspired on Joseph Campbell’s book. You can play this video to the group to[…]
Overcoming Problem Areas
The following sequence was used by a team of 12 people seeking alignment and a few prioritized actionable items for a process improvement. The lessons learned and accomplishments were essential[…]
Is – Is not – Does – Does not
The activity Is – Is not – Does – Does not helps to define a team. Sometimes, it’s easier to describe something by telling what this thing is not or[…]
Understanding the group knowledge
Understanding the group knowledge is a team building activity that helps the team understanding the group knowledge and abilities, as well as the intentions and actions towards increasing it. Running[…]
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