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Looking to improve your next workshop or team meeting?
Explore our collection of free tools, guides and activities to help make your next workshop the best darn workshop anyone's ever attended.



Walking Brainstorm
Contribute and expand on each other’s ideas while keeping the focus on creativity, not personalities or disagreements.
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World Cafe
This is a simple but powerful way to spark meaningful conversations driven entirely by participants.
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MoSCoW: Sorting what matters most
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.
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Circle, Square, Triangle
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.
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Powerpoint Karaoke
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.
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Bus Trip
Practice giving positive and appreciative feedback and demonstrate its importance.
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The LEGO Challenge
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.
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Warm Up: Snowballs
A fun and interactive way for groups to get to know each other, spark conversation, and share personal experiences.
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Warm Up: Rock, Paper, Scissors
A lively, interactive warm-up that gets energy up, encourages cheering, and adds a playful twist to a classic game.
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Eight Steps of Change
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.
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The Six Thinking Hats
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.
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“I Appreciate…”: A Simple Feedback Exercise for Teams
Regular, thoughtful feedback is key to building strong relationships and high-performing teams.
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Team Retrospective
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.
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Stinky Fish
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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Better Brainstorming: Using the 'how', 'now' and 'wow' matrix
When people brainstorm new ideas, they often think creatively and explore possibilities beyond the usual boundaries. This is the...
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Facilitator Guide: Setting Expectations
Nothing derails a workshop faster than unmet expectations. If you don’t take time to set them, participants will make up their own, and...
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Check-In & Check-Out
Checking in and out is a simple but powerful way to open and close any group session. It sets the tone, creates space for people to be present, and reminds everyone they’re part of something shared.
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The "Unfinished Artwork" Warm-up
To spark creativity by working with constraints and building upon existing ideas. This warm-up exercise gets the creative juices flowing...
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Run-on-Story Game
To encourage spontaneous storytelling and improvisation. This fun and simple activity helps participants practice building on each...
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The "Expert" Game
To encourage quick thinking, improvisation, and the ability to find creative connections between seemingly unrelated concepts. This game...
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