Looking to improve your next workshop or team meeting?

Contribute and expand on each other’s ideas while keeping the focus on creativity, not personalities or disagreements.

This is a simple but powerful way to spark meaningful conversations driven entirely by participants.

To help your team make clear, collective decisions about what’s truly essential, what’s nice to have, and what’s best left for later.

At the end of a workshop, it’s valuable to take a moment to reflect on what you’ve learned, what you’d like to develop further, and how your new insights can help you improve. This activity encourages that reflection and works just as well when run remotely.

PowerPoint Karaoke is an improvisation game where volunteers take turns delivering presentations using slide decks they’ve never seen before, all in front of a live audience.

Practice giving positive and appreciative feedback and demonstrate its importance.

This activity explores communication, leadership, conflict, cooperation, patience, and problem-solving within a team. This activity works well as a warm up or deeper reflection piece on communication, collaboration, and leadership under pressure.

Step-by-Step breaks a process into its smallest pieces, then invites you to challenge each one. By asking, “What if we changed, removed, or reversed this step?”, you can spot hidden friction and uncover simple, powerful improvements.

Make it Sh*t asks you to design the worst possible version of an idea, product, or service, then use those “terrible” features as clues for improvement. By going to the extreme, you highlight what truly matters and uncover fixes that might otherwise stay hidden.

5 Whys helps you dig beneath the surface of a problem by asking “Why?” repeatedly - usually around five times. Each answer takes you a step closer to the root cause, which is where meaningful change can happen.

Assumption Busting helps you surface and challenge the hidden “truths” that shape a problem or situation. These are the rules, limits, and beliefs we rarely question, yet they quietly decide what feels possible. By listing them out and asking, “What if this wasn’t true?”, you can find new options that were previously hidden.

There's a simple framework that can transform how you communicate ideas, whether you're presenting to senior leadership, giving feedback to your team, or even explaining your reasoning in a tricky email. It's called PREP, and it might just become your new best friend…

The model provides a practical framework for implementing significant changes and is widely used by leaders and change managers. The steps are sequential, with each one building upon the success of the previous step.

The Six Thinking Hats technique is a powerful tool for improving group discussions. It helps teams brainstorm, solve problems, and make decisions by focusing everyone on one type of thinking at a time. Instead of an unstructured conversation where people might talk over each other or get stuck on a single perspective, this method provides a framework that ensures all viewpoints are heard and considered.

Running regular retrospectives helps your team improve, stay connected, and keep learning. It’s always useful, but even more so when you're working remotely or in a hybrid setup.

This is a short, simple activity to run early in a workshop or project. The idea is to get people to surface any unspoken concerns about the theme or the journey ahead. It helps people open up, connect, and clear the air.

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