Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
Disney Creative Strategy
Use Walt Disney's three-phase process to turn wild ideas into solid plans. This method forces your team to think like dreamers, realists, and critics,...
Stakeholder Map
A stakeholder map visually represents people who influence your service or project. It reveals relationships, power, and communication needs across ev...
User Story
User stories capture features from the user's point of view. They follow the format: "As a [user type], I want [goal] so that [benefit]." This keeps t...
Offering Map
This exercise creates a visual map of your organization's products, services, and value propositions. It reveals the relationships and dependencies be...
Kano Model
The Kano Model helps teams categorize features by customer satisfaction and functionality. It clarifies which features delight users versus those that...
Fishbone Diagram
The Fishbone diagram helps teams find the root causes of problems. It organizes potential causes into categories that branch from a central problem.
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.
Content Type Mapping
Before you build, map your content. Content type mapping identifies each content type, its attributes, relationships, and purpose. Unplanned content m...
Heuristic Evaluation Protocol
Heuristic evaluation spots usability problems fast using expert reviews. Evaluators check an interface against usability principles. This happens befo...
Job Statement Framing
Job Statement Framing ensures precise language in Jobs To Be Done. This 75-minute exercise crafts clear job statements. These capture customer intent,...
Ideation Rules
This exercise sets ground rules for effective brainstorming. It fosters psychological safety, encourages wild ideas, and promotes building on each oth...
User Interview Guide
A user interview guide helps you conduct consistent, thorough interviews. It's a structured, flexible document with questions and prompts to uncover u...
Journey Stage Breakdown
Customer journeys are continuous, but teams need stages for analysis. Journey Stage Breakdown divides the journey. This helps focus improvement effort...
Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas puts your entire business on one page. This forces clarity on how you create, deliver, and capture value. It's a thinking to...
System Usability Scale (SUS) Administration & Scoring
The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a quick way to measure perceived usability. First, participants complete the SUS questionnaire after using a produ...
Storyboard
Storyboards visually narrate user interactions with a product or service. They use sketches or images in panels to show the user experience over time....
Theme Discovery
Research yields raw data: interviews, surveys, observations. Theme Discovery transforms this into insights by pinpointing patterns. In 2 hours, affini...
Affinity Diagramming
Transform scattered ideas into actionable insights. This exercise uses collaborative sorting to reveal patterns in Post-Up sticky notes. Participants ...
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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!