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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.

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.

After Action Review (AAR)

The After Action Review (AAR) is a structured reflection tool that analyzes events to understand outcomes and identify improvements for future responses.

AI Readiness Canvas Individual

Use this canvas to self-reflect on your understanding of AI.

AI Readiness Canvas Organization

Use this canvas to reflect on your organizations understanding of AI.

AI Readiness Canvas Team

Use this canvas to reflect on your team's understanding of AI.

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.

Build & Lead Your A-Team

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

Change Explorer

This template helps you and your team acknowledge, process, and ideate ways to explore the change at hand together.

Change Guide

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.

Change Journey

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.

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.

ChatGPT Prompt Aide

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.

Collaborative Leadership to Drive Innovation and Inclusive Participation at Work

Collaborative leadership is crucial for modern organizations aiming to innovate and stay competitive. By fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment, organizations can harness the diverse perspectives of their employees to drive success and tackle complex challenges.

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.

Context Interviews

Use this template to guide your solo reflection and group problem-solving process.

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.

Design Sprint Planner

Everything you need to ace your Design Sprint.

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.

Experimenting With Change

This template provides you with a transparent process and framework to experiment with change.

Facilitation Certification Brochure

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.

Facilitation Certification Portfolio Starter

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!

Facilitator Branding Canvas

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.

Facilitator Well-being Canvas

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.

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.

Focus Finder

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

Future State

Use this template to transition from analyzing the current state to envisioning the desired future state.

Futures Wheel

The Futures Wheel is a foresight method that provides a model of the future.

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.

Group Planning

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

Hopes & Fears

Use this template to generate your hopes and fears for this session and reflect and discuss what you discover as a group.

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 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

I Like I Wish I Wonder

This exercise fosters constructive dialogue by prompting participants to share what they appreciate, suggest improvements, and explore future possibilities.

I Used to Think Now I Think

This template encourages reflection and personal growth by contrasting past beliefs with current insights.

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.

Improv Vision Board

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

Interview

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.

LS & When To Use Them

Use this guide 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 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

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.

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 tweak to an existing structure.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Master Training Reimbursement Template

You may be able to get the cost of Master 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.

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.

Nurture the Naysayers

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

Observation

Use this template to observe a user experience or problem in a real-world setting.

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.

Plus Delta

The Plus/Delta exercise is a feedback tool that highlights successes ("Plus") and areas for improvement ("Delta").

Problem Solving Template

Use this template to methodically navigate each step of the problem-solving process.

Problem Statement

Use this template to explore the who, what, where, when, and why of the problem at hand.

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.

Risks/Rewards of Change

This template helps your team consider both the risk and the rewards of choosing to make a change or choosing to keep the status quo.

Root Cause

Use this template to identify symptoms of your problem and explore their root causes.

Rose Thorn Bud

This exercise helps teams or individuals reflect on positives (Roses), challenges (Thorns), and growth opportunities (Buds) to gain a holistic view of their experiences.

Start Stop Continue

This exercise is a feedback tool that helps individuals or teams identify actions to initiate, discontinue, or maintain for improved performance.

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 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 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.

Timeline Retrospective

Timeline Retrospective gives participants a chance to visualize a chosen project in its sequential order.

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.

Training Reimbursement Template

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.

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 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.

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 Stands In Your Way

Use this template to explore potential blocks identified in the Problem Solving Template to achieving your desired outcomes.

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.

Work Now 2023

After going remote during COVID-19, many organizations continue to offer remote or hybrid options to workers in higher numbers than ever before. This survey is a snapshot of that work, offering snapshots of the lived experiences of both hybrid and remote workers. Of the 210 individuals we surveyed, most or all identifying as leaders in remote or hybrid workplaces and teams, we share herein the stories from the data that will help readers understand the current trends in remote and hybrid work and, even more importantly, what the future holds for hybrid and remote workers.

Workshop Design

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

Zoom Breakouts Broadcast & Sharing

How to broadcast audio and share screen in breakout rooms in Zoom.