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Alignment
Use these templates to help your team find their alignment, increase productivity, and discover potential.
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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.
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Focus Finder
Use this template when some needs to find focus on their problem or opportunity.
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Find Your Alignment
Determine how your idea can be shifted or re-positioned to connect with and support business objectives.
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.
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Change Explorer
This template helps you and your team acknowledge, process, and ideate ways to explore the change at hand together.
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Experimenting with Change
This template provides you with a transparent process and framework to experiment with change.
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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.
Connection
Use these templates to connect your teams, ideas, knowledge, and stories.
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Team Tangram Animals
Use this template to help your team move into a playful exploratory state of mind.
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Yarn Weave
Use this activity to discover connections that emerge between group members through storytelling.
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Team Bookshelf
Use this template to leverage your room intelligence by sharing each other's favorite books and what can be learned from them.
Crowdsourcing
When you have a large dispersed team use crowdsourcing to get everyone contributing to solve problems.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Culture
Use these templates when addressing and defining company culture, organizational culture, and team relationships.
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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.
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Weekly Glance
Use this template to align your team weekly, keep quarterly goals in mind, and develop company-wide relationships.
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Meeting Culture Redesign
Use this template to take an intentional look at your meeting systems and how you can redesign them.
Facilitation Development
Enhance your facilitation skills through meeting techniques, growth plans, and workshop designs.
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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.
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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!
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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.
Ideation
Templates for formulating ideas and concepts to solve problems with new context.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Lateral Thinking
Explore manners of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious.
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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.
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LS 10x10 Writing
Use this template to expand your perspective about the problems that arise through proactive prompts.
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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.
Planning
Use these templates for organization and planning to map out meetings and workshops ahead of time.
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Workshop Design
Use this canvas to design your workshop, meeting, training, or course and become learning experience professional.
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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.
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Get Yourself & Your Idea Organized
This template focuses on what works for you and what doesn't to identify a system moving forward.
Problem Solving
Templates to help you define a problem, determine the cause, identify, prioritize, and discover solutions.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Prototyping
Use these templates to prototype new ideas, new concepts, and new processes.
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Improv Vision Board
Use this template when your team is in need of a collective, inspiring vision for a project, product, or culture.
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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.
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Go Forth & Prototype
This template will help you get beyond the what-if dream of your idea and prototype it.
Retrospective
Use these templates to examine how your team is working together with the goal of improving future collaborations.
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LS Evaluation
Use this template when you want to evaluate a new method or a tweak to an existing structure.
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Magical Meetings Story Spine
Use this template as a starting point for sharing your magical meeting's purpose, outcomes, and next steps.
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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.
Strategy
Templates to create a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a successful solution.
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If-Then Storming
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
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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.
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If-Then Storming
If then storming gives you new ideas for considering the problem you are trying to solve.
Team Chartering
Templates to help define your goals, assets, and obstacles through a roadmap for your team. Clearly define roles and responsibilities for your team.
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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.
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Build & Lead Your A-Team
Assemble your team and lead them through the different phases to keep building toward the big idea.
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Nurture the Naysayers
Seek out the naysayers to explore contradictions to your beliefs and assumptions.
Team Health
Templates designed to improve team health, establish psychological safety, and build a healthy work culture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Testing Assumptions
Discover what assumptions are holding you and your team back and when it is time to change direction.
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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.
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Debunk the Truth
This template supports the work required to uncover and evaluate assumptions, and then identify and take necessary actions.
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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.
Virtual/Hybrid
Templates built for efficient collaboration, effective teamwork, and innovative solutions across remote and hybrid teams.
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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.
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Design Sprint Participant Room
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.
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Hybrid Work Guide
Define and navigate a hybrid workplace for your organization + run effective hybrid meetings and events
Visual Thinking
Templates designed to encourage thinking through visual processing, with the goal of innovative solutions.
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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.
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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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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.