The Map of Who Knows What
Build the team's expertise map on a wall in forty minutes. It outlives the session.
OnboardingCross-team networkingCollaboration
Outcome
Activities for communication
Practising clear hand-offs, active listening and saying the hard thing early.
17 activities
The Blind Build
One person can see the model. One person can touch the bricks. Nobody enjoys the middle.
CommunicationCollaborationProblem solving
The Failure Résumé
Everyone presents the job they did not get. Trust goes up, permanently.
Trust & safetyLeadership practiceCommunication
The Silent Line-Up
Five minutes, no talking, and a surprisingly good conversation afterwards.
CommunicationPure funInclusion
Build a Bike, Give It Away
Teams build children's bicycles. At the end, the children come in.
CollaborationCommunicationWellbeing
The User Safari
Everyone in the company spends two hours being a customer. Including the people who never do.
CollaborationProblem solvingCross-team networking
The Pitch Pit
Teams invent and pitch a deliberately terrible product. The judging is the fun part.
Creative thinkingCollaborationPure fun
The Pre-Mortem
It is a year from now and the project failed. Write the story of how.
Problem solvingTrust & safetyCommunication
The Cook-Off
Mystery ingredients, a time limit, and a kitchen or a hotel function room.
CollaborationCreative thinkingCommunication
Walk and Talk
Pair up, go outside, come back in forty minutes. The simplest thing on this site.
WellbeingCross-team networkingTrust & safety
The Values Auction
Teams bid for the things they say they care about, with a budget that does not cover them.
Leadership practiceCommunicationTrust & safety
The Story Spine
Eight sentence-starters, one team, one story that nobody planned.
Creative thinkingCommunicationCollaboration
Rose, Bud, Thorn
Three words, one round, five minutes. The highest-value-per-minute thing on this site.
CommunicationTrust & safetyWellbeing
The Paper Tower
Eighteen minutes, twenty sheets of paper, and a lesson about prototyping that lands every time.
CollaborationProblem solvingCreative thinking
Speed Networking Roulette
Six conversations, four minutes each, with people you would never otherwise meet.
Cross-team networkingOnboardingCommunication
The Newcomer Interview
The new starter interviews the team, on stage, with questions nobody vetted.
OnboardingInclusionCommunication
The Year Wall
Build a timeline of the year on a wall, then walk it together.
RecognitionTrust & safetyCommunication