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for active section Reset meeting habits and choose first moves Best match Impromptu Networking Rapidly Share Challenges and Expectations, Build New Connections
Alternative 1-2-4-All Move quickly from individual reflection to collective harvesting.
Alternative TRIZ A sharper mirror for habits that quietly undermine collaboration.
Alternative 15% Solutions Discover and Focus on What Each Person Has the Freedom and Resources to Do Now
1-2-4-All Suggested
Move quickly from individual reflection to collective harvesting.
15% Solutions Suggested
Discover and Focus on What Each Person Has the Freedom and Resources to Do Now
25/10 Crowd Sourcing
Rapidly Generate and Sift a Group's Most Powerful Actionable Ideas
Nine Whys
Make the Purpose of Your Work Together Clear
Anxiety Circus
Identify the group's biggest worries, fears, and concerns
Appreciative Interviews
Use this when you want more depth after the safe opening.
Agreement & Certainty Matrix
Sort Challenges into Simple, Complicated, Complex, and Chaotic Domains
Celebrity Interview
Reconnect the Experience of Leaders and Experts with People Closest to the Challenge at Hand
Conversation Café
Engage Everyone in Making Sense of Profound Challenges
Critical Uncertainties
Develop Strategies for Operating in a Range of Plausible Yet Unpredictable Futures
Design StoryBoards
Define Step-by-Step Elements for Bringing Meetings to Productive Endpoints
Design StoryBoards Advanced
Plan productive transformation and innovation projects step by step
Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD)
Discover, Invent, and Unleash Local Solutions to Chronic Problems
Drawing Together
Reveal Insights and Paths Forward Through Nonverbal Expression
Ecocycle Planning
Analyze the Full Portfolio of Activities and Relationships to Identify Obstacles and Opportunities for Progress
Folding Spectogram
Invite everyone to take a position on a question with controversial opinions
Gallery Walk
Deepen shared information and ideas while moving through the room
Generative Relationships (STAR)
Reveal Relationship Patterns That Create Surprising Value or Dysfunctions
Grief Walking
Use social support while living through loss or profound change
Heard, Seen, Respected
Practice Deeper Listening and Empathy with Colleagues
Helping Heuristics
Practice Progressive Methods for Helping Others, Receiving Help and Asking for Help
Impromptu Networking Suggested
Rapidly Share Challenges and Expectations, Build New Connections
Improv Prototyping
Develop Effective Solutions to Chronic Challenges While Having Serious Fun
Integrated~Autonomy
Move from Either-or to Robust Both-and Solutions
Mad Tea Party
Rearrange the Context for Taking Action
Min Specs
Specify Only the Absolute "Must dos" and "Must not dos" for Achieving a Purpose
Network Patterning Cards
Identify and design more productive organizational patterns for collaboration
Open Space Technology
Liberate Inherent Action and Leadership in Groups of Any Size
Panarchy
Understand How Embedded Systems Interact, Evolve, Spread Innovation and Transform
Purpose-To-Practice (P2P)
Design the Five Essential Elements for a Resilient and Enduring Initiative
Shift and Share
Spread Good Ideas and Make Informal Connections with Innovators
Simple Ethnography
Observe and Record Actual Behaviors of Users in the Field
Social Network Webbing
Map Informal Connections and Decide How to Strengthen the Network to Achieve a Purpose
Spiral Journal
Deepen insights and discover open questions through self-reflection
Talking with Pixies
Identify and break through beliefs and assumptions that constrain your action
Tiny Demons
Explore personal inner blockers and convert them into insight
TRIZ Suggested
A sharper mirror for habits that quietly undermine collaboration.
Troika Consulting
Get Practical and Imaginative Help from Colleagues Immediately
User Experience Fishbowl
Share Know-How Gained from Experience with a Larger Community
What I Need From You
Turn friction into explicit requests and disciplined responses.
What, So What, Now What?
Together, Look Back on Progress to Date and Decide What Adjustments Are Needed
Wicked Questions
Articulate the Paradoxical Challenges That a Group Must Confront to Succeed
Wise Crowds
Tap the Wisdom of the Whole Group in Rapid Cycles
Wise Crowds for Large Groups
Use the knowledge of individual experts and the whole group
XxN-Writing
Sharpen and focus thinking through a sequence of questions or statements
CT Intro / Context
Use a short grounding move before the room opens up.
IN Input block
A short impulse before the next structure gets more demanding.
RF Closure / Reflection
Slow the room down and extract what is worth carrying forward.