Exercises
Discover 380+ facilitation exercises to energize your workshops, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful outcomes.
IDEO-Journey Map Creation
Journey Maps help you strategize for key moments in a product or service. Identify opportunities by visualizing the customer's experience.
Empathy And Value Alignment
It's common for teams to either over-empathize without shipping or ship without understanding user needs. This exercise bridges that gap. It helps tea...
IDEO - Build Partnerships
Bringing a concept to market often requires help. This exercise focuses on building the partnerships you'll need.
Atlassian - 4L's
The 4 L's retrospective helps teams reflect on projects or sprints. It structures feedback around what the team Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed for...
18F - Comparative Analysis
Comparative Analysis systematically reviews existing products, services, or experiences that address similar user needs. This exercise analyzes user e...
IDEO - Build & Run Prototypes
Quickly build and test prototypes to learn fast. This exercise helps you share ideas immediately and iterate based on feedback. Part of the LUMA colle...
Value Discovery Session
Value discovery helps teams understand what creates value for customers. It moves beyond feature lists. This exercise forces teams to think beyond "wh...
Team Role Exploration
Misunderstandings about roles cause conflict. This exercise clarifies responsibilities, expectations, and decision authority. Ambiguous roles create d...
IDEO - Align On Your Impact Goals
This exercise, adapted from the LUMA collection, helps teams align on goals. It ensures everyone works toward the same outcome. It's useful for clarif...
Ideation And Solution Exploration
You've defined the problem; now, it's time to generate solutions. This focused 60-minute ideation session helps teams quickly move from problem unders...
IDEO -Journey Map Analysis
This exercise, adapted from LUMA, helps teams turn journey maps into action. Analyze maps to find patterns, pain points, and opportunities. Then, tran...
Schematic Diagramming
Schematic diagrams clarify complex systems. They map connections and flows by stripping away unnecessary details. Think of it as a blueprint. This exe...
5-Minute User Interview
Practice interviewing under pressure. Five minutes forces you to ask meaningful questions. Constraints reveal skill. You can't waste time on small tal...
LUMA - Buy A Feature
Money talks. Give participants a budget and have them 'buy' the features they want most. Limited resources reveal true priorities. Observe their first...
Visualize The Vote
Visualize the Vote makes group preferences visible, leading to democratic decision-making. It uses visual polling to harness collective intelligence a...
LUMA-Storyboarding
Storyboarding clarifies ideas. It presents a concept as a sequence of events, much like a comic. This shows how a user interacts with your solution. I...
Manifesto Implementation Planning
Manifestos alone don't change behavior; implementation does. In 30 minutes, create a concrete plan to bring your manifesto to life through processes, ...
18F - KJ Method
Participants list individual priorities on cards, then organize and prioritize them as a group through voting. This exercise helps find consensus, esp...
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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!