Interested in digging deeper into ideas from our facilitation workshops?
Exercise materials from the workshop:
- The Speed of Trust excerpt – summary of Leadership Behaviours and exercise http://abiggergame.today/files/resources/DeborahPreuss_LeadershipBehaviours_SpeedOfTrust.pdf’
- Roger Schwarz “Shared Learning Leadership” one-pager http://abiggergame.today/files/resources/Schwarz_handout_dpreuss_1page.pdf
- Roger Schwarz “8 Ground Rules for Great Meetings” http://www.schwarzassociates.com/managing-performance/8-ground-rules-for-great-meetings/
- Meeting Safety Exercise – http://abiggergame.today/files/resources/SafetyExercise_dpreuss.pdf
- Powerful Questions resources https://abiggergame.today/powerfulquestions/
- The Facilitator’s Stance exercise
- Fearless Journey Game – to get your team unStuck http://fearlessjourney.info
- Thumb-voting: The core protocols – Decider Protocol https://liveingreatness.com/core-protocols/decider/
- Facilitation Canvas Planning Tool: Facilitation Canvas
Collaboration patterns:
- The Core Protocols http://liveingreatness.com
- Liberating Structures website http://www.liberatingstructures.com/ls/
- Liberating Structures for virtual Collaboration: https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=98e127c388ffe0e5af8ff1c13&id=4c8be401ca
- Thinklets
- Book: Using Global Virtual Teams to Leverage Workforce Diversity in Global Environments: Applications of CE Technology and ThinkLets
https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/using-global-virtual-teams-leverage/67075 - Book: Thinklets by Briggs and de Vreede (general, not just online)
- http://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-briggs-and-gert-jan-de-vreede/thinklets-building-blocks-for-concerted-collaboration/paperback/product-5119917.html
- Thinklets online pdf
- Book: Facilitation of Technology Supported Collaboration by by Briggs and de Vreede http://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-briggs-and-gert-jan-de-vreede/facilitation-of-technology-supported-collaboration/paperback/product-14697071.html
- GroupWorks patterns: a website and card deck http://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-briggs-and-gert-jan-de-vreede/facilitation-of-technology-supported-collaboration/paperback/product-14697071.html
- Book: Using Global Virtual Teams to Leverage Workforce Diversity in Global Environments: Applications of CE Technology and ThinkLets
Some of the books and tools we mentioned during the workshop:
- LiftOff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams – book and canvas for team (re-) chartering
- book by Larsen & Nies https://pragprog.com/book/liftoff/liftoff-second-edition
- CharterMat canvas http://abiggergame.today/chartermat/
- Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171409.Collaboration_Explained
- Holding space – facilitator exercises http://abiggergame.today/files/resources/Create%20Your%20Unconference%20with%20Open%20Space%20-%20workbook.pdf
- Constellations https://luis-goncalves.com/agile-retrospective-set-the-stage/
- Thumb-voting: The core protocols – Decider Protocol https://liveingreatness.com/core-protocols/decider/
- Failure Bow – TedX talk – instructional video https://youtu.be/cXuD2zHVeB0
- Doug Silsbee “DBS” centering exercise: https://insightoutleadership.com/finding-center-in-turbulent-times/
- Team values across cultures exercise https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/blog-post/sharing-values-an-agile-team-building-exercise/
- Personal values (instructional video) https://youtu.be/oooUXDasBQQ
- Guerrilla Facilitation: https://www.batimes.com/articles/amplifying-collaboration-with-guerilla-facilitation.html
- Alternatives to Brainstorming: https://www.fastcompany.com/3069239/brainstorming-doesnt-work-try-these-three-alternatives-instead
- Lean Coffee: http://leancoffee.org/
- Octopus clustering (for processing lots of ideas while involving many people): https://www.thisisservicedesigndoing.com/methods/octopus-clustering
- Gamestorming tools for co-creation: https://gamestorming.com/
For Virtual Meetings:
- Doodle scheduling helper: https://doodle.com/
- Online Innovation Games: https://weave.conteneo.co
- Collaboration Superpowers resource list for remote teams: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/remote-resources/
Photos from the Agile India 2019 pre-conference workshop