Peanut Butter & Jelly Exercise

Looking for ways to get your team to understand the importance of details, instructions, and following a process? One of the best exercises to do this is call the PB&J Exercise.

Follow these links (downloadable PPT) for the instructions and process flow guidelines.

Finally, teams turn in their completed process flows of list of instructions and as one whole group, a "chef" tries to create the sandwich while the facilitator reads the instructions from the worst teams flow/instructions. Laughs all around, but a very powerful point.

Inventions: Photo Guide Setup

Inventions. A corner stone module of DesignShops. Here is a photo guide for the Map Layout, Tools Table and Materials Table.

And don't forget to read about how to write the assignment and deliver the module: Inventions Collaboration Exercise

Download all the assignments, photo guides, rules etc. from one zip file!

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Four Square : 4 Square : Energizer : Rules : Successful Team Builder and Break

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The Four Square Game and it's origins are not known. Directions on how to play the best game are provided by by Chris Burke, one of the leading collaborative facilitators in the world. These instructions on how to play 4 square with any size group, can come in handy during any collaboration exercise. This is a game, an activity and it is not to be confused with the collaboration software Four Square which allows you to find and work with your friends in your city. 

Please leave comments below on how you have adapted, improved or added new dimensions to the game. 

Facilitation Tools: Spice-Up a Transition with "New Personality Research"

Is your participant group in need of a little energy boost? Want to add some fun to a specific transition within your facilitated session? Tired of using the same, old, boring, facilitation stuff, like "everyone stand up and stretch?" Here's a quick, collaborative and fun transition tool that always gets a laugh and serves to re-engage participants.

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Collaborative Session Research Tips

With so many research lists and knowledge options available to knowledge workers, consultants and meeting managers, aggregation sites often speed up research methods and project delivery time.

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Cups & Straws Module

This module was originally developed by Sandy Worthing and Andy Heppelle.

This module is a small team activity that can be tailored for multiple experiential learning goals.

It can focus on:
 - Benefit of Rapid Prototype - for the team that is considering changing the way that they build products (IT or non IT alike)

 - Benefit of Client Intimacy - for the team that is trying to become more responsive/interactive with their Clients and more agile in the Market

 - Benefit of Cross Disciplinary Communication - for the team that is in an organization that has barriers to intergroup collaboration

Debriefs of the Session tend to be very rich with a focus on the "voice of the Customer" and "how it feels" when you are forced to "just do the job as laid out in the written requirements".

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Build A House

Click here to download (6MB) the materials necessary for the assignment (graphics, price lists, design requirements, materials...)

No overview information available. Please e-mail ck@collaborationking.com Please indicate if you would like credit and contact information to be listed.

Take-A-Panel

Purpose

The Take-A-Panel module enables each participant in an event to respond individually, and in dynamic fashion, to a design challenge. This massive parallel-processing gets a wealth of ideas and models into play. Teams of participants then share their responses with each other and synthesize them in a form that can be shared with the full group.

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