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| Brainstorming | To generate many ideas in a group setting |
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| Delphi Method | Decision making structured in different rounds |
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| Active Replay: Investigating What Happened | Investigating What Happened: 1. Awareness-raising (bringing out different points of view and disagreements; 2. Focusing on issues which participants have found difficult to recognise or confront during the activity 3. Analysing a problem (similar to reconstructing the scene of a crime) |
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| Different Directions | To generate a number of different directions an idea or action can take and to experience excitement about developing new ideas. |
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| Active Replay: Clarifying What Happened | Clarifying what happened by 1. keeping everyone in the group informed about what others were doing (especially where a group has split into smaller units during an activity) 2. informing others outside the group about a group event (or possibly just to update the trainer following an independent exercise) 3. reconstructing a distant or complex event (to help people recall and relive the facts and feelings of an event) |
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| Deserted Island | The Deserted Island Method is a good warm-up for a idea generating session. It starts the process of creative thinking by creating alternative solutions to surviving on a deserted island with limited resources. |
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| The Silent Mindmap | To generate a diversity of new ideas through silent, visual dialogue. |
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| Psyched for Life | Focus on a set of life-altering Corollaries to refocus intent and direction in challenging situations |
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| Bohm Dialogue | To enable a group to develop a better understanding of itself. |
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| Art Gallery | To stimulate creativity by having people draw pictures of the theme under discussion, |
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| The Project Tree | To enable a group to analyze together how the different parts of their plan relate to one another before moving to a timeline. |
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| Skills Import - Export Workshop | To create a matrix of skills needed and skills available |
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| Ten Kinds of Person | Participants have a chance to learn more about each other by sharing things about themself using the phrase, ? am the kind of person who..."" ten times. |
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| Open Discussion | To disucss a topic in a free form with the facilitator keeping everyone on the topic. |
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| Model building | To develop a model of a situation. |
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| News Spot | To create story of the success of the project at the end of the planning session. |
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| Information Processing using Examples | When ever new information is given to a group some form of processing is needed to embed to one degree on another the information being shared. This process is to enable a low level of processing of information being given. |
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| Compass | To generate ideas using all four Innovation Styles of visioning, exploring, experimenting and modifying |
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| The Circle of Opportunity | To force relationships between attributes that are randomly created and selected and to experience the process of moving away from standard ways of thinking. |
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| Buzz group | The purpose of this method is to help maintain interest and to get people involved in something. By discussing and expressing their own thought their learning gets stimulated. Furthermore this method offers information and experiences for the participants on which they can further build on. Another aspect is that it helps the participants to get acquainted with each other. |
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| Environmental Analysis Workshop | Participants gain insight in the environment, changes in the environment, and how this environment affects their work and participants experience the excitement of seeing the whole environment in which they work. |
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| Historical Examination | These questions are especially useful for generating ideas for improving something (the evolutionary approach), but they also help to break thinking out of the evolutionary mode and put it into the revolutionary mode by returning the thinker to the origin and purpose of the idea or solution. By returning to the roots of the problem, a new vision can be created. |
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| Something from Home | To speed up the process of becoming acquainted among workshop participants and to experience a pleasant atmosphere for multicultural groups. |
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| Animal Sounds | The intent is to make the group more comfortable with each other. |
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| Introductions Conversation | To create a group consensus on the aim of an event based on what each person wants |
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| Personal Crest: | The personal Crest is used as a way of introducing people in a group. |
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| Critical Path Method | To determine the critical path of product or service deliver of an organization or unit |
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| Stories of Cross-Cultural Learnings | To create a set of stories with learnings about cross cultural situations and to experience trust in telling of successes and failures in dealing cross culturally |
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| Golden Fish and Bridge | To define what is current company/organization image and what we would like it to be |
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| Dynamic Facilitation | Dynamic Facilitation is an energy-based form of facilitating where people address difficult issues creatively and collaboratively, and achieve breakthrough results. It establishes a process of talking and thinking, known as Choice-Creating, that builds mutual respect, trust and the sense of community. The dynamic facilitator plays an active role, helping people follow their heart more than a preexisting agenda. He or she helps them to determine an issue they really care about, whether it seems solvable or not. Then she helps them to say what is on their minds in a way that all can hear and respect. The dynamic facilitator helps foster shifts of heart and mind by following the natural flow of conversation and supporting group spontaneity. Sometimes these shifts take the form of new ideas; other times they bring a new sense of what the ?real problem? is; and other times there is a change of heart. |
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| Donut Prioritization | To prioritize tasks into three levels and to create a quarter timeline. |
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| Value Drivers and Critical Success Factors Workshop OD 6 | To maximize the value from an opportunity and to reach agreement with the whole value change about what the Value Drives and Critical Success Factors are. |
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| The Teleconference Roundtable | There are a growing number of tools for facilitating videoconferences and teleconferences. Here is one of the simplest for enhancing personal contact during a teleconference. It is simple, but does take a bit of preparation beforehand. Purpose: To provide a visual connection with the voices heard during a teleconference. |
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| Hidden Gifts Exercise | A team building exercise that can be used before the start of a planning exercise. |
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| Positive Response to Cynicism | Responding to situations when a participant says something like, "We have done this same planning process and nothing ever comes of it". |
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| Circle Discussion | To have participants all have an equal opportunity to speak on a topic. |
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| Three to One Scenarios | To create a single scenario that solves an issue. |
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| Content Processing | To reflect on the products of the meeting. |
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| Buzz Click | This is a fun energizer that requires some paying attention, thinking and coordination. |
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| Predict the worst | Object: to avoid little/silent participation within a group. To let all the members of a team to share their frights of possible negative turnovers in the working process.by doing it anonymously/. |
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| Gratitude Wall | To leave nice notes to your team and people in your organization |
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| Carrousel | The purpose of this process is to give sufficient attention to individual questions and to recognise patterns in the need for information. Furthermore it should provide efficient information, something that is done by a number of resource persons. A last intent would be to share answers and outcomes with others in the group in a more interactive way. Basically it should provide the opportunity to individual advise. |
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| Theme Analysis Workshop | Participants clarify the issues relative to each theme in the work of the up coming year and clarify the benefits and issues relative to areas that need to be considered. |
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| Attribute Analysis | To determine the attributes of an object or idea and generate ideas based on them. |
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| Throwing Names | To remind participants of colleagues' names and to recall fellow participant's names and to save the embarrassment of not knowing someone's name. |
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| Have you ever...? | The intent of this process is to give participants the oportunity to get to know each better. |
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| Rotating Flip Charts | To provide a method for break-out groups to review each other's work. |
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| Idiagram | The goal of this process is to build a sophisticated systematic understanding of complex problems and opportunities, to develop a broad strategic insight, and to design more creative solutions. Furthermore, it is used to make more effective decisions and more realistic plans, to build shared vision, ownership, and enthusiasm, communicate effectively with others, and at last, follow through on the vision. |
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| Unzipping Difficult People | To re-imagine difficult people through a mental exercise. |
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| Different Directions Interventions | When a group is blocked in creating new ideas this to generate a number of different directions, ideas or actions can take. The group experience excitement about developing new ideas. This is used as an intervention when a group is blocked in creating new ideas. |
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