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.
Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.
Determine how your idea can be shifted or re-positioned to connect with and support business objectives.
This template helps you and your team acknowledge, process, and ideate ways to explore the change at hand together.
This template provides you with a transparent process and framework to experiment with change.
To make way for change, it’s essential to identify the “why” behind your desire for it. If so, it’s unlikely to last. Is your change aligned with shared values? Does it project a line of sight in a direction you want to head? That’s a promising start.
Use this template to help your team move into a playful exploratory state of mind.
Use this activity to discover connections that emerge between group members through storytelling.
Use this template to leverage your room intelligence by sharing each other's favorite books and what can be learned from them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use this template to align your team weekly, keep quarterly goals in mind, and develop company-wide relationships.
Use this template to take an intentional look at your meeting systems and how you can redesign them.
You may be able to get the cost of Facilitation Certification covered by your company's professional development reimbursement policy, and, even if your company doesn't have a formal policy, they may still approve partial or complete reimbursement. We created this template to help you prepare and submit your request.
Use this template as a space to prototype the beginnings of a professional facilitation portfolio and visual way to apply for the Facilitation Certification Program. Once you've completed the starter, forward it to us as your application!
Our immersive certification programs give executives, team leads, chiefs of staff, product managers, trainers, and other leaders the facilitation skills and confidence to lead for now and what’s next. Download this brochure to get an indepth view of how the program including samples of portfolios from our alumni. Reach out if you'd like to talk one on one about the program.
ChatGPT has lots of potential but how do we get the most out of it? It's all about the prompt. Writing and tweaking prompts specific to your needs is key to unlocking the best results. Use this tool template to think through what you'd like to achieve and how to construct the ideal prompt for ChatGPT to get you there.
Each card helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them into a new context.
This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.
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.
Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.
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.
Use this canvas to design your workshop, meeting, training, or course and become learning experience professional.
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.
This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.
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.
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.
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.
Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.
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.
This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.
Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or a tweak to an existing structure.
Use this template as a starting point for sharing your magical meeting's purpose, outcomes, and next steps.
This activity builds a shared understanding of how people develop different perspectives, ideas, and rationals for actions and decisions.
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
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.
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
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.
Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.
Seek out the naysayers to explore contradictions to your beliefs and assumptions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.
Use this download to guide you through 5 acts of interview questions to build the best team for your project.
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.
Use this template to run a remote Design Sprint. Bring the team together int this template for all their solo and group work. And use our supply room template for of the supplies and instructions for each activity. Copy the supplies over to the participant room as you complete each step.
Define and navigate a hybrid workplace for your organization + run effective hybrid meetings and events
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.
Use this template when you want teams to understand the impact of perspective, the pitfalls of alignment, and the benefit of true collaboration.
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.
Use this template to discover what emerges from team brainstorming, and discuss the next steps.
Use this template to discover what emerges from team brainstorming, and discuss the next steps.
Use this template to discover what emerges from team brainstorming, and discuss the next steps.
Use this template to visualize patterns your team draws (faces, shapes, patterns) and discuss outcomes.
Use this template to visualize patterns your team draws (faces, shapes, patterns) and discuss outcomes.
Use this template to visualize patterns your team draws (faces, shapes, patterns) and discuss outcomes.
The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured reflection tool that analyzes events to understand outcomes and identify improvements for future responses.
The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured reflection tool that analyzes events to understand outcomes and identify improvements for future responses.
The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured reflection tool that analyzes events to understand outcomes and identify improvements for future responses.
Use this canvas to self-reflect on your understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to self-reflect on your understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to self-reflect on your understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to reflect on your organizations understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to reflect on your organizations understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to reflect on your organizations understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to reflect on your team's understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to reflect on your team's understanding of AI.
Use this canvas to reflect on your team's understanding of AI.
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.
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.
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.
A brainstorming method tailored for async collaboration.
A brainstorming method tailored for async collaboration.
A brainstorming method tailored for async collaboration.
Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.
Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.
Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.
This template helps you and your team acknowledge, process, and ideate ways to explore the change at hand together.
This template helps you and your team acknowledge, process, and ideate ways to explore the change at hand together.
This template helps you and your team acknowledge, process, and ideate ways to explore the change at hand together.
Every change journey is unique. Use this template to visualize and embark on your change journey in a sustainable way. You’ll start with the end in mind and then moving backwards through each step until you get to your original starting point. This allows important but non-obvious steps to emerge so that you can better anticipate the future.
Every change journey is unique. Use this template to visualize and embark on your change journey in a sustainable way. You’ll start with the end in mind and then moving backwards through each step until you get to your original starting point. This allows important but non-obvious steps to emerge so that you can better anticipate the future.
Every change journey is unique. Use this template to visualize and embark on your change journey in a sustainable way. You’ll start with the end in mind and then moving backwards through each step until you get to your original starting point. This allows important but non-obvious steps to emerge so that you can better anticipate the future.
Assess your organization's four readiness factors to take a critical look at its ability, fit, and capacity to deliver on your idea.
Assess your organization's four readiness factors to take a critical look at its ability, fit, and capacity to deliver on your idea.
Assess your organization's four readiness factors to take a critical look at its ability, fit, and capacity to deliver on your idea.
ChatGPT has lots of potential but how do we get the most out of it? It's all about the prompt. Writing and tweaking prompts specific to your needs is key to unlocking the best results. Use this tool template to think through what you'd like to achieve and how to construct the ideal prompt for ChatGPT to get you there.
ChatGPT has lots of potential but how do we get the most out of it? It's all about the prompt. Writing and tweaking prompts specific to your needs is key to unlocking the best results. Use this tool template to think through what you'd like to achieve and how to construct the ideal prompt for ChatGPT to get you there.
ChatGPT has lots of potential but how do we get the most out of it? It's all about the prompt. Writing and tweaking prompts specific to your needs is key to unlocking the best results. Use this tool template to think through what you'd like to achieve and how to construct the ideal prompt for ChatGPT to get you there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use this template to guide your solo reflection and group problem-solving process.
Use this template to guide your solo reflection and group problem-solving process.
Use this template to guide your solo reflection and group problem-solving process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.
This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.
This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.
Use this template to run a remote Design Sprint. Bring the team together int this template for all their solo and group work. And use our supply room template for of the supplies and instructions for each activity. Copy the supplies over to the participant room as you complete each step.
Use this template to run a remote Design Sprint. Bring the team together int this template for all their solo and group work. And use our supply room template for of the supplies and instructions for each activity. Copy the supplies over to the participant room as you complete each step.
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.
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.
The supply room contains everything you need for a virtual Design Sprint using our 2 Canvas System.
The supply room contains everything you need for a virtual Design Sprint using our 2 Canvas System.
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.
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.
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.
This template provides you with a transparent process and framework to experiment with change.
This template provides you with a transparent process and framework to experiment with change.
This template provides you with a transparent process and framework to experiment with change.
Use this template as a space to prototype the beginnings of a professional facilitation portfolio and visual way to apply for the Facilitation Certification Program. Once you've completed the starter, forward it to us as your application!
Use this template as a space to prototype the beginnings of a professional facilitation portfolio and visual way to apply for the Facilitation Certification Program. Once you've completed the starter, forward it to us as your application!
Use this template as a space to prototype the beginnings of a professional facilitation portfolio and visual way to apply for the Facilitation Certification Program. Once you've completed the starter, forward it to us as your application!
Create an identity for yourself as a facilitator to elevate your visibility and reach. This canvas will help you develop a well-defined brand guide that will help you build a consistent look, message, and presence that stands out and guides meaningful connections.
Create an identity for yourself as a facilitator to elevate your visibility and reach. This canvas will help you develop a well-defined brand guide that will help you build a consistent look, message, and presence that stands out and guides meaningful connections.
Create an identity for yourself as a facilitator to elevate your visibility and reach. This canvas will help you develop a well-defined brand guide that will help you build a consistent look, message, and presence that stands out and guides meaningful connections.
Use this template as a tool to reflect on your overall wellness, assess your rest, and plan actions that will help you improve your well-being.
Use this template as a tool to reflect on your overall wellness, assess your rest, and plan actions that will help you improve your well-being.
Use this template as a tool to reflect on your overall wellness, assess your rest, and plan actions that will help you improve your well-being.
Use this template whenever you'd like to use Feedback Frames, but you have to run the session virtually.
This template allows you to run Feedback Frames in a virtual environment.
Determine how your idea can be shifted or re-positioned to connect with and support business objectives.
Determine how your idea can be shifted or re-positioned to connect with and support business objectives.
Determine how your idea can be shifted or re-positioned to connect with and support business objectives.
Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.
Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.
Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.
Use this template to transition from analyzing the current state to envisioning the desired future state.
Use this template to transition from analyzing the current state to envisioning the desired future state.
Use this template to transition from analyzing the current state to envisioning the desired future state.
The Futures Wheel is a foresight method that provides a model of the future.
The Futures Wheel is a foresight method that provides a model of the future.
The Futures Wheel is a foresight method that provides a model of the future.
This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.
This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.
This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.
This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.
This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.
This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.
Use this template when you want to generate ideas, brainstorm solutions, and plan as a team.
Use this template when you want to generate ideas, brainstorm solutions, and plan as a team.
Use this template when you want to generate ideas, brainstorm solutions, and plan as a team.
Design Thinking foundations activity
Use this template to generate your hopes and fears for this session and reflect and discuss what you discover as a group.
Use this template to generate your hopes and fears for this session and reflect and discuss what you discover as a group.
Use this template to ask the team 'how might we' questions to discover new and innovative solutions to problems.
Use this template to ask the team 'how might we' questions to discover new and innovative solutions to problems.
Use this template to ask the team 'how might we' questions to discover new and innovative solutions to problems.
This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.
This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.
This canvas helps you reference existing ideas or solutions from one domain so you can remix them to solve your problems.
This exercise fosters constructive dialogue by prompting participants to share what they appreciate, suggest improvements, and explore future possibilities.
This exercise fosters constructive dialogue by prompting participants to share what they appreciate, suggest improvements, and explore future possibilities.
This exercise fosters constructive dialogue by prompting participants to share what they appreciate, suggest improvements, and explore future possibilities.
This template encourages reflection and personal growth by contrasting past beliefs with current insights.
This template encourages reflection and personal growth by contrasting past beliefs with current insights.
This template encourages reflection and personal growth by contrasting past beliefs with current insights.
Identify the right stakeholders and map them to a communication grid to balance support with time and resources.
Identify the right stakeholders and map them to a communication grid to balance support with time and resources.
Identify the right stakeholders and map them to a communication grid to balance support with time and resources.
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.
Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.
Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.
Use this template to interview someone that is close to the problem you are having and observe the behavior, success, and pain points.
Use this template to interview someone that is close to the problem you are having and observe the behavior, success, and pain points.
Use this template to interview someone that is close to the problem you are having and observe the behavior, success, and pain points.
This fact-finding mission is to identify the formal process and informal rules for how work gets done in your organization.
This fact-finding mission is to identify the formal process and informal rules for how work gets done in your organization.
This fact-finding mission is to identify the formal process and informal rules for how work gets done in your organization.
Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.
Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.
Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or a tweak to an existing structure.
Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or a tweak to an existing structure.
Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or tweak to an existing structure.