Downloads to Help Transform Your Team

2x2

Use this template to discover what emerges from team brainstorming, and discuss the next steps.

2x2

Use this template to discover what emerges from team brainstorming, and discuss the next steps.

30 Circles

Use this template to visualize patterns your team draws (faces, shapes, patterns) and discuss outcomes.

30 Circles

Use this template to visualize patterns your team draws (faces, shapes, patterns) and discuss outcomes.

5 Act Interview Cheat Sheet

Use this download to guide you through 5 acts of interview questions to build the best team for your project.

5 Act Interview Moderator Guide

Use this download to guide you through 5 acts of interview questions to build the best team for your project.

AI Readiness Canvas

Use this canvas to map out business challenges, problem-solving, what the AI needs, risks, benefits, and more.

Beyond the Prototype

Use the templates as a companion to the book Beyond the Prototype. When you are trying to find and address what is shifting your momentum this template will help you integrate the tools into your work.

Beyond The Prototype

Use this template as a companion when you are reading Beyond the Prototype. When you are trying to find and address what's stifling your momentum, this template will help you integrate the tools into your work.

Beyond The Prototype

Use this template as a companion when you are reading Beyond the Prototype. When you are trying to find and address what's stifling your momentum, this template will help you integrate the tools into your work.

Brainstorming

A brainstorming method tailored for async collaboration.

Brainstorming

A brainstorming method tailored for async collaboration.

Build & Lead Your A-Team

Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.

Build & Lead Your A-Team

Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.

Chart Your Readiness

Assess your organization's four readiness factors to take a critical look at its ability, fit, and capacity to deliver on your idea.

Chart Your Readiness

Assess your organization's four readiness factors to take a critical look at its ability, fit, and capacity to deliver on your idea.

Collaborative Rapid Prototyping

Prototyping is where all the ideas come to life. Storyboarding locks in our prototyping plan, which we have to execute in one day. This recipe allows various makers to contribute to a digital prototype in parallel, which leads to building deeper and more involved prototypes.

Concentric Consensus x08

Use this template when a group needs to create key points for a topic or question and write down those key points to a consensus. This is an adaptation of the Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All for 8 people.

Concentric Consensus x12

Use this template when a group needs to create key points for a topic or question and write down those key points to a consensus. This is an adaptation of the Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All for 12 people.

Concentric Consensus x16

Use this template when a group needs to create key points for a topic or question and write down those key points to a consensus. This is an adaptation of the Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All for 16 people.

Concentric Consensus x24

Use this template when a large group needs to create key points for a topic or question and write down those key points to a consensus. This is an adaptation of the Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All for 24 people.

Concentric Consensus x48

Use this template when a large group needs to create key points for a topic or question and write down those key points to a consensus. This is an adaptation of the Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All for 48 people.

Concentric Consensus x96

Use this template when a large group needs to create key points for a topic or question and write down those key points to a consensus. This is an adaptation of the Liberating Structures 1-2-4-All for 96 people.

Cover Story Mockup

The purpose is to envision an ideal future state for your organization. Let go of all doubts and imagine a future state that is so awesome that it landed your organization in a well-known magazine.

Culture Cultivator

If we could do one thing to improve our company culture, what would it be? Use this worksheet to explore pain points, uncover opportunities, consider action steps and test an experiment aimed to improve the way things are.

Culture Cultivator

If we could do one thing to improve our company culture, what would it be? Use this worksheet to explore pain points, uncover opportunities, consider action steps and test an experiment aimed to improve the way things are.

Debunk the Truth

This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.

Debunk the Truth

This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.

Design Sprint Participant Room

Use this template to discover the team's favorite foods, and vote on what they want right now. Then discuss how everyone used the tool!

Design Sprint Participant Room

Use this template to discover the team's favorite foods, and vote on what they want right now. Then discuss how everyone used the tool!

Design Sprint Planner

Everything you need to ace your Design Sprint.

Design Sprint Scorecard

A Google Sheet for capturing notes and insights during Design Sprint user interviews.

Design Sprint Stitcher Workspace

The Stitcher 2.0 acts like the “scrum master” for the prototype created during the sprint. They make sure that tasks are moving along and that all assets are organized in a way that is easy for the makers to pull into the prototype.

Design Sprint Stitcher Workspace

The Stitcher 2.0 acts like the “scrum master” for the prototype created during the sprint. They make sure that tasks are moving along and that all assets are organized in a way that is easy for the makers to pull into the prototype.

Design Sprint Supplies Room

The supply room contains everything you need for a virtual Design Sprint using our 2 Canvas System.

Design Sprint Supply Room

The supply room contains everything you need for a virtual Design Sprint using our 2 Canvas System.

DT Empathy Map

Build empathy and keep your focus on the user by putting yourself in their shoes.

DT Empathy Map

Build empathy and keep your focus on the user by putting yourself in their shoes.

Empathy Map

Using observations and interviews map out thinking, feeling, hearing, seeing, saying, and doing sections to identify pain points your user is experiencing and what specific things the user hopes can be accomplished.

Empathy Map

Utilizing observations or interviews, map out thinking, hearing, seeing, saying, and doing to identify the specific pain your user is feeling. This will help you identify specific things the user hopes could be accomplished.

Employee User Manual

We have achieved a level of employee health and cohesion that we are very excited about and we know following this user guide will elevate your team’s organizational health as well.

Employee User Manual

We have achieved a level of employee health and cohesion that we are very excited about and we know following this user guide will elevate your team’s organizational health as well.

Facilitators Guide To Questions

A pocket reference for facilitators to always know what questions to ask to keep your meetings magical. Subscribe below to start your download.

Find Your Alignment

Determine how your idea can be shifted or re-positioned to connect with and support business objectives.

Find Your Alignment

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Focus Finder

Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.

Focus Finder

Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.

Focus Finder

Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.

Get Yourself & Your Idea Organized

This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.

Get Yourself & Your Idea Organized

This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.

Go Forth & Prototype

This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.

Go Forth & Prototype

This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.

Group Planning

Use this template when you want to generate ideas, brainstorm solutions, and plan as a team.

Group Planning

Use this template when you want to generate ideas, brainstorm solutions, and plan as a team.

How Might We

Use this template to ask the team 'how might we' questions to discover new and innovative solutions to problems.

How Might We

Use this template to ask the team 'how might we' questions to discover new and innovative solutions to problems.

How to Remix Anything

This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.

How to Remix Anything

This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.

How to Remix Anything

This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.

How to Remix Anything Card Deck

Each card helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them into a new context.

Hybrid Work Guide

Define and navigate a hybrid workplace for your organization + run effective hybrid meetings and events

Identify the Right Level of Stakeholder Communication

Identify the right stakeholders and map them to a communication grid to balance support with time and resources.

Identify the Right Level of Stakeholder Communication

Identify the right stakeholders and map them to a communication grid to balance support with time and resources.

If-Then Storming

If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.

If-Then Storming

If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.

Improv Vision Board

Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.

Improv Vision Board

Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.

Improv Vision Board

Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.

Interview Observation

Use this template to interview someone that is close to the problem you are having and observe the behavior, success, and pain points.

Interview Observation

Use this template to interview someone that is close to the problem you are having and observe the behavior, success, and pain points.

Learn How Work Gets Done

This fact-finding mission is to identify the formal process and informal rules for how work gets done in your organization.

Learn How Work Gets Done

This fact-finding mission is to identify the formal process and informal rules for how work gets done in your organization.

LS & When To Use Them

Use this download to explore Liberating Structures and when to use them to open your meetings and generate ideas.

LS 10x10 Writing

Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.

LS 10x10 Writing

Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.

LS 10x10 Writing

Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.

LS Agreement And Certainty Matrix

Sort challenges into four categories: simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic. Explore items that appear to fit in more than one category, and highlight the range and nature of the challenges facing people in the organization.

LS Agreement and Certainty Matrix

Sort challenges into four categories: simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic. Explore items that appear to fit in more than one category, and highlight the range and nature of the challenges facing people in the organization.

LS Agreement and Certainty Matrix

Sort challenges into four categories: simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic. Explore items that appear to fit in more than one category, and highlight the range and nature of the challenges facing people in the organization.

LS Critical Uncertainties

Test the visibility of current strategies and build the capacity to respond quickly to future challenges.

LS Critical Uncertainties

Use this template to test the viability of current strategies and build the capacity to respond quickly to future challenges. This plan builds team resilience, shapes systems, and prepares teams to respond to disturbances.

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LS Ecocycle

This template will help you determine where are most important activities fit into the larger context amongst other activities. Achieve clarity on resources and identify where investments are being placed across an organization with a broad portfolio.

LS Ecocycle

This template will help you determine where are most important activities fit into the larger context amongst other activities. Achieve clarity on resources and identify where investments are being placed across an organization with a broad portfolio.

LS Ecocycle

This template will help you determine where are most important activities fit into the larger context amongst other activities. Achieve clarity on resources and identify where investments are being placed across an organization with a broad portfolio.

LS Evaluation

Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or a tweak to an existing structure.

LS Evaluation

Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or tweak to an existing structure.

LS Generative Relationship Star

Increase the degree to which a team can become more self-managing and autonomous. Promote moving towards a common understanding of the way participants share patterns of interactions.

LS Generative Relationships Star

Increase the degree to which a team can become more self-managing and autonomous. Promote moving towards a common understanding of the way participants share patterns of interactions.

LS Generative Relationships Star

Increase the degree to which a team can become more self-managing and autonomous. Promote moving towards a common understanding of the way participants share patterns of interactions.

LS Integrated Autonomy

Help a group shift from an either-or to a both-and mindset. Focusing the group on a discussion on how to be both integrated and autonomous encourages everyone to move beyond the paradox of conflicting perspectives and find novel solutions that sharpen strategic capabilities.

LS Integrated Autonomy

Help a group shift from an either-or to a both-and mindset. Focusing the group on a discussion on how to be both integrated and autonomous encourages everyone to move beyond the paradox of conflicting perspectives and find novel solutions that sharpen strategic capabilities.

LS Purpose to Practice

Starting with practice and ending with purpose, categories are created, clustered, and then voted on. With each step, revisions are made based on the learnings from the previous step.

LS Purpose to Practice

Starting with practice and ending with purpose, categories are created, clustered, and then voted on. With each step, revisions are made based on the learnings from the previous step.

LS Purpose to Practice

Starting with practice and ending with purpose, categories are created, clustered, and then voted on. With each step, revisions are made based on the learnings from the previous step.

LS Triz

Using anti-patterns to unlock value and question the status quo. Do not identify net-new behaviors, instead focus on works case scenarios associated with the way your team functions, products, processes, or service offerings.

LS Triz

Using anti-patterns to unlock value and question the status quo. Do not identify net-new behaviors, instead focus on works case scenarios associated with the way your team functions, products, processes, or service offerings.

LS Triz

Using anti-patterns to unlock value and question the status quo. Do not identify net-new behaviors, instead focus on worste case scenarios associated with the way your team functions, products, processes, or service offerings.

LS Troika

Through Round-Robin consultations, individuals ask for help and advice from two peers. This is an effective way for employees to support each other without a formal management structure.

LS Troika

Through Round-Robin consultations, individuals ask for help and advice from two peers. This is an effective way for employees to support each other without a formal management structure.

LS Troika

Through Round-Robin consultations, individuals ask for help and advice from two peers. This is an effective way for employees to support each other without a formal management structure.

LS What I Need From You

Use this template to help functional groups in your organization work well together. List the top needs of each group and narrow it down to the top two needs to get a clear understanding of how to accomplish a goal.

LS What I Need From You

Use this template to help functional groups in your organization work well together. List the top needs of each group and narrow it down to the top two needs to get a clear understanding of how to accomplish a goal.

LS What I Need From You

Use this template to help functional groups in your organization work well together. List the top needs of each group and narrow it down to the top two needs to get a clear understanding of how to accomplish a goal.

LS What, So What, Now What

This activity builds a shared understanding of how people develop different perspectives, ideas, and rationals for actions and decisions.

LS What, So What, Now What

This activity builds a shared understanding of how people develop different perspectives, ideas, and rationals for actions and decisions.

LS What, So What, Now What

This activity builds a shared understanding of how people develop different perspectives, ideas, and rationals for actions and decisions.

Magical Meetings Bingo

Use this bingo board to evaluate your maturity in addressing the problems of your meetings in order to have truly magical ones.

Magical Meetings Bingo

Use this bingo board to evaluate your maturity in addressing the problems of your meetings in order to have truly magical ones.

Magical Meetings Book Assets

Assets including tables, lists, and figures to make sure every meeting you host is magical.

Magical Meetings Quick Start Guide

Create and run magical meetings with our bite-sized guide, based on the full guide Magical Meetings: Reinvent How Your Team Works Together

Magical Meetings Story Spine

Use this template as a starting point for sharing your magical meeting's purpose, outcomes, and next steps.

Magical Meetings Story Spine

Use this template as a starting point for sharing your magical meeting's purpose, outcomes, and next steps.

Meeting Culture Redesign

Use this template to take an intentional look at your meeting systems and how you can redesign them.

Meeting Culture Redesign

Use this template to take an intentional look at your meeting systems and how you can redesign them.

Methods & Tools Library

Inspiring methods and activities for your next workshop.

Mural Cheat

This mural cheat sheet will help you with navigation, organization, communication, and contributions to your mural board.

Network Glance

Discover insights into who we need to build deeper relationships with on our team.

Network Glance

Discover insights into who we need to build deeper relationships with on our team.

Nurture the Naysayers

Seek out the naysayers to explore contradictions to your beliefs and assumptions.

Nurture the Naysayers

Seek out the naysayers to explore contradictions to your beliefs and assumptions.

One Maybe at a Time

Use this template to move past "getting buy-in" and instead focus on the idea and the initiative that gets the best result for the business, customer, or client.

One Maybe at a Time

Use this template to move past "getting buy-in" and instead focus on the idea and the initiative that gets the best result for the business, customer, or client.

Personal Facilitation Growth Plan

Use this template to curate your own facilitator development plan.

Personal Facilitation Growth Plan

Use this template to curate your own facilitator development plan.

Perspective Reveal

Use this template when you want teams to understand the impact of perspective, the pitfalls of alignment, and the benefit of true collaboration.

Perspective Reveal

Use this template when you want teams to understand the impact of perspective, the pitfalls of alignment, and the benefit of true collaboration.

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Psychological Safety Check

Use this worksheet to explore the level of Psychological Safety present in your team. Psychological Safety allows teams to innovate, be creative, and increase team effectiveness.

Psychological Safety Check

Use this worksheet to explore the level of Psychological Safety present in your team. Psychological Safety allows teams to innovate, be creative, and increase team effectiveness.

Remote Design Sprint 101 Guide

This is a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to run their own remote Design Sprint. It outlines everything we’ve done at Voltage Control to successfully adapt our tried-and-true Design Sprint model for remote work.

Take 5

Use this template when you want to collect diverse ideas from the entire room. Within five minutes everyone will be ready to share from a more intentional perspective using visuals.

Take 5

Use this template when you want to collect diverse ideas from the entire room. Within 5 minutes everyone will be sharing from an intentional perspective using visuals!

Team Bookshelf

Use this template to leverage your room intelligence by sharing each other's favorite books and what can be learned from them.

Team Bookshelf

Use this template to leverage your room intelligence by sharing each other's favorite books and what can be learned from them.

Team Bookshelf

Use this template to leverage your room intelligence by sharing each other's favorite books and what can be learned from them.

Team CliftonStrengths Finder

Use this template when company culture is in need of making the most out of each person's unique strengths. This template is great for organizing the results of the CliftonStrengths assessment.

Team CliftonStrengths Library

Use this template when company culture is in need of making the most out of each person's unique strengths. This template is great for organizing the results of the CliftonStrengths assessment.

Team CliftonStrengths Library

Use this template when company culture is in need of making the most out of each person's unique strengths. This template is great for organizing the results of the CliftonStrengths assessment.

Team Facilitator Finder

Use this template as a discovery tool to locate the right facilitator inside your organization.

Team Facilitator Finder

Use this template as a discovery tool to locate the right facilitator inside your organization.

Team Mood Ring

This template creates space for your team to express their feelings and naturally encourages empathy through sharing. Try it at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the meeting.

Team Mood Ring

This template creates space for your team to express their feelings and naturally encourages empathy through sharing. Try it at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the meeting.

Team Tangram Animals

Use this template to help your team move into a playful exploratory state of mind.

Team Tangram Animals

Use this template to help your team move into a playful exploratory state of mind.

Tough Topics

Not every conversation at work is easy. Uncovering tough topics uncovers insights, breeds understanding, and contributes to improvements in team culture and work. As a team, explore how you can collectively approach difficult conversations.

Tough Topics

Not every conversation at work is easy. Uncovering tough topics uncovers insights, breeds understanding, and contributes to improvements in team culture and work. As a team, explore how you can collectively approach difficult conversations.

Turn Failures into Lessons

Use this template to help guide conversations at the end of a project to analyze the good, the bad, and what has potential to grow.

Turn Failures into Lessons

Use this template to help guide conversations at the end of a project to analyze the good, the bad, and what has potential to grow.

User Interview Recipe

The interview is where your prototype is tested. A deliberate, scientific approach is critical. A consistent process and unbiased mindset yield realistic feedback. Effective scoring gives clarity to the results and primes you to make strategic decisions.

Virtual Meeting Hardware Guide

All of the gear you need to successfully host virtual meetings.

Virtual Work Guide

By the end of this guide, you’ll understand how to best conduct virtual work meetings, virtual facilitation, remote Design Sprints, and how to keep and promote human connection in a virtual landscape. We also highlight the tools that make virtual work possible and most effective.

Visual Thinking

Use this template for getting started with visual collaboration in your next meeting.

Visual Thinking

Use this template for getting started with visual collaboration in your next meeting.

Visual Thinking Mad-Lib

Use this template when you want to explore visual thinking with your team. the purpose is to help your team use imagery to communicate beyond just words.

Visual Thinking Mad-Lib

Use this template when you want to explore visual thinking with your team. the purpose is to help your team use imagery to communicate beyond just words.

Weekly Glance

Use this template to align your team weekly, keep quarterly goals in mind, and develop company-wide relationships.

Weekly Glance

Use this template to align your team weekly, keep quarterly goals in mind, and develop company-wide relationships.

What Meeting Are We Having

It is important to be clear as to why we are having this meeting and what type of meeting it is. This template helps to rename our meetings and consider the value they bring.

What Meeting Are We Having?

Use this template to explore meetings with your team, this will allow you to rename meetings and consider the value they bring.

Work Now 2022

The world of work as we know it is at a tipping point. As a natural result of changes long-in-the-making and then expedited during the pandemic, the state of work now and work in the future is forever different.

Workshop Design

Use these templates to design your workshop, meeting, training, or course like a learning experience pro.

Workshop Design

Use this canvas to design your workshop, meeting, training, or course and become learning experience professional.

Yarn Weave

Use this activity to discover connections that emerge between group members through storytelling.