Explore aeo's workshop method library

1, 2, 4, ALL!

1, 2, 4, ALL technique facilitates group involvement and productivity.

3 Action Steps

Small-scale strategic planning for groups and individuals to achieve change.

3 Question Mingle

Question set to improve group interaction and team building.

5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique

Calmness leads to productivity; 5-step exercise for stress relief.

90-Minute Prototypes

Create clickable app prototypes in 90 minutes, motivate team.

Action Plan Workshop: The Arrow

Workshop helps identify and achieve personal goals through visualization and planning.

Active Listening

Active listening exercise for problem-solving in groups of three.

Align on Your Impact Goals

Align impact goals for team success and behavior change.

Alignment & Autonomy

Workshop improves agility, alignment, autonomy, and collaboration for businesses.

Analogous Inspiration

Analogous settings and immersion stimulate creative thinking for teams.

Apple-Drawing Ideation

Sketching apples in groups to foster creativity and generate ideas.

Appreciation Train

Activity fosters unity, connections, trust through positive feedback rotation.

Appreciative Inquiry: Root Causes of Success

Quickly identify success factors for positive change and progress.

Back-turned Feedback

Feedback builds trust, openness, and self-awareness in teams.

Bang

Bang is a fun group game requiring quick reactions.

Body Language

Body language crucial in understanding interviewee's needs and desires.

Brainstorm

Brainstorms access knowledge and creativity; prioritize openness and positivity.

Brainstorm Rules

Productive brainstorming requires openness, collaboration, and numerous ideas.

Build & Run Prototypes

Test prototypes, gather feedback, iterate quickly, build on learning.

Build a Team

Diverse team with varied skills needed for human-centered design.

Build Partnerships

Identify partners, use funding and business models to launch concept.

Bundle Ideas

Combine ideas to create stronger solutions for presentation.

Business Model Canvas

Use Business Model Canvas to consider crucial aspects of idea.

Campfire

Campfire promotes social learning through storytelling in work settings.

Capabilities Quicksheet

Separate creative solution from implementation, use three approaches.

Card Sort

Card Sort prioritizes and reveals concerns for design insights.

Check-In / Check-Out

Effective check-in/out procedures establish tone, encourage participation and contemplation.

Check-In and Check-Out Questions

Check-in/out vital for collaboration, crafted questions impactful, encourages participation.

Circle of Influence

Assess priorities, determine focus, foster ownership among team members.

Co-Creation Session

Co-Creation Session gathers feedback and empowers collaboration for success.

Coach Yourself out of a Funk in 3 Steps

Life has ups and downs, need tools to navigate challenges.

Collage

Creating inspires, reveals insights, and collages articulate significance.

Conflict Responses

Team workshop on conflict resolution using Thomas-Killman model.

Conversation Capture

Observing others shapes identity, ignites creativity, improves skills. Be sensitive.

Conversation Starters

Propose ideas to ignite conversation and inspire unconventional thinking.

Count Up

Count to a number, alternate turns, avoid simultaneous speaking.

Create a Concept

Transform ideas into a refined concept for testing and proposing.

Create a Logic Model

Create a logic model to communicate and evaluate your solution.

Create a Pitch

Pitch conveys concept, enhances articulation, persuades stakeholders to support.

Create a Project Plan

Develop a plan to anticipate challenges and stay on course.

Create Frameworks

Frameworks simplify research insights, identify patterns, and deconstruct context.

Create Insight Statements

Insight statements guide research, brainstorming, and solution development.

Critical Thinking Mindset

Critical thinking enables logical conclusions and informed decisions.

Crocodile River

Team-building activity requires physical support, communication, and problem-solving.

Current Strongest Impression

Openness fosters trust and thriving teams; promotes self-awareness.

Dance, Dance, Dance

Playful dancing in small groups to create a fun atmosphere.

Define Your Audience

Understand audience, explore areas, consider community, use secondary research.

Define Your Indicators

Track indicators to measure intervention progress and outcomes effectively.

Demands Continuums

Tool evaluates product impact on users for critical analysis.

Design Principles

Design Principles maintain consistency, define elements, and evolve iteratively.

Design Sprint for Any Team

Google-inspired workshop for fast prototyping and problem-solving. In-person/online.

Determine What to Prototype

Evaluate ideas, select components, use customer journey map.

Difficult Participants

Framework for managing disruptive behavior during interactive sessions.

Diffusion Curve Reflection

Activity prompts reflection on innovation adoption in personal/professional life.

Dinner Challenge

Team-building dinner challenge promotes group dynamics and problem-solving.

Dotmocracy

Dotmocracy simplifies group decision-making and prioritization through voting.

Download Your Learnings

Frameworks simplify research insights, identify patterns, and deconstruct context.

Draw It

Drawing aids communication, idea generation, and documentation in design.

Draw Toast

Draw Toast exercise introduces visual thinking and systems modeling.

Engineering Your Team OS

Workshop improves team collaboration and goal achievement gradually.

Expert Interview

Experts provide comprehensive understanding and technical guidance for design.

Explore Scalability

Growth vs scaling, stakeholder alignment crucial, tools aid identification.

Explore Your Hunch

Human-centered design involves intuitive idea generation and validation.

Explore Your Theory of Change

Theory of Change evaluates solution components for desired outcome.

Explore your Values

Identify core values intuitively with "Your Values" exercise.

Exploring Client Centricity

Client-centricity prioritizes customer needs in company operations and strategy.

Extremes and Mainstreams

Interviewing mainstream and extreme users inspires effective, creative solutions.

Feedback Hats

"Six Thinking Hats" technique for group and individual thinking.

Feedback Map

Exercise maps connections and prompts feedback for project teams.

Feedback: Appreciation Mingle

Group expresses appreciation to foster connections and positivity.

Feedback: I appreciate...

Feedback and appreciation exercise for team building and bonding.

Feedback: Start, Stop, Continue

Exercise enhances feedback for mature, experienced teams.

Find Themes

Identify themes from interviews and inspiration for ideation phase.

Frame Your Design Challenge

Well-defined design challenge crucial for effective problem-solving.

Funding Strategy

Plan funding strategy early, collaborate with team and partners.

Future Mapping

Future Map analyzes industry trends for discourse and deliberation.

Future Trends

Tool identifies trends, explores opportunities, available online and in-person.

Get Feedback

Feedback on prototypes crucial for audience-focused product development.

Get Visual

Visualizing ideas clarifies thoughts and benefits team collaboration.

Go Bananas

High-energy, fast-paced, silly stimulant ignites group excitement.

Gratitude Exercises & Activities

Gratitude benefits brain function, resilience, and mental health.

Group Interview

Group Interviews offer valuable insights into diverse opinions.

Guided Tour

Visualizing ideas clarifies thoughts and benefits team collaboration.

Gut Check

Generate creative ideas, evaluate with Gut Check exercise.

Habit Reflection: Create a Habit that Sticks

Effective personalized tool for forming lasting habits - Habit Reflection.

Hello Kitty

Group game to make each other smile, involving kitties and puppies.

History Map

Reflect on team experience, celebrate achievements, and establish closure.

Hot Air Balloon

Hot air balloon technique identifies workshop goals and stakeholders.

How Might We

Reframe insights as How Might We questions for creative solutions.

How Might We

AI model generates new text while retaining original meaning.

How-Now-Wow Matrix

Game helps choose ideas; How-Now-Wow matrix breaks "creadox."

Human Machine

Collaborative exercise generates energy by moving together as machine.

I Like | I Wish | I Wonder

Innovation needs feedback, use "I Like, I Wish, I Wonder".

I Love You Honey...

Quick game to make each other smile, promote trust and openness.

Idea & Concept Development

Collaborative process generates innovative ideas with selection and development steps.

IDOARRT Meeting Design

IDOARRT tool establishes purpose, structure, and objectives for meetings.

Immersion

Listen, comprehend, engage, observe, shadow, explain, pertinent.

Impact/Effort Matrix

Evaluate ideas based on impact and effort for decision-making.

Integrate Feedback and Iterate

Feedback from users crucial for human-centered design success.

Interview

Human-centered design uses interviews to understand users' needs.

Journey Map

Analyze customer journey, create map, visualize experience, spread word.

Kanban Pizza Game

Pizza Game teaches Lean & Agile through Kanban immersion.

Keep Getting Feedback

Feedback collection is crucial for advancing design concepts.

Keep Iterating

Iterate constantly for better impact in human-centered design.

Lego Challenge

Lego team-building with secret tasks emphasizes communication and leadership.

Letter to Myself

Letter to future self outlines desired changes and actions.

Lightning Decision Jam

Use structured process for creative tasks and team collaboration.

Line-Up

Nonverbal group challenge promotes teamwork and communication skills.

Live Prototyping

Live Prototypes test entire solution in real-world scenarios for optimization.

Love Your Neighbour?

Fast-paced game promotes group cohesion and laughter.

Mapping Organizational Culture

Culture mapping for transformational success in corporations.

Marimba!

"Mah-Rimba" boosts group morale with loud shouting in circle.

Marshmallow Challenge

Build tallest structure with 20 sticks, tape, string, marshmallow.

Mash-Up Innovation

Collaborative idea generation through combining elements for innovation.

Mash-Ups

Mash-Ups use unconventional questions to accelerate thinking process.

MethodKit for Team Development

MethodKit provides analogue tools for effective team development.

Monitor and Evaluate

Plan M&E with relevant metrics, expert team, and nuances.

My Daily P.A.C.T.

My Daily P.A.C.T. exercise for intentional well-being and productivity.

Myers-Briggs Team Reflection

Workshop on Myers-Briggs model for personal and professional understanding.

Near and Dear

Recognize varying investment levels in group decisions for prioritization.

Optimize and Adapt for Scale

Adjustments and trade-offs needed for scaling success. Continual optimization necessary.

Parking Lot

Flipchart used to address significant but off-topic questions later.

Peers Observing Peers

Empower participants to conduct research, gain deeper understanding.

Personal Presentations

Personal presentations promote understanding, trust, and openness in groups.

Personal SWOB Assessment

Flexible self-evaluation workshop with SWOB model and coaching.

Photojournal

Photojournal captures life stories, enhances understanding and reflection.

Pilot

Pilot tests entire system, lasts months, precedes market launch.

Portrait Gallery

Collaborative portrait activity fosters unity and visual impact.

Principles of Effective Feedback

Activity to establish principles of effective feedback exchange.

Project Mid-way Evaluation

Assess project, enhance collaboration, dialogue, devise strategies for enhancement.

Project Point of Departure

Framework, objectives, and actions established through questions and digital format.

Project Wrap-up

Reflect on project, support, improve, closure, lessons, feedback, apply.

Protobot

Building unleashes creativity through prototyping and experimentation.

Quantify Yourself

Track behaviors to unlock creativity and gain new insights.

Rapid Prototyping

Prototyping helps designers learn, refine, and test ideas efficiently.

Rapid Research

External input exercise enhances workshops, generates valuable insights.

Recruiting Tools

Plan approach, questions, data for diverse participant communication.

Reflection: Individual

Reflection breaks down experiences for personal growth and action.

Reflection: Team

Team reflection fosters openness, trust, and learning for improvement.

Remote Toolbox: Solo + Team Online Collaboration

Remote Toolbox for effective online collaboration and facilitation.

Remote Tools and Platforms: Team Collaboration

Digital tools and platforms enhance virtual collaboration and meetings.

Resource Flow

Record all household resources and usage during interview.

Roadmap for Success

Create a roadmap to implement and assign responsibilities for project.

Role Play

Role Play prototype improves design and gains insights.

Roles & Responsibilities

Clear roles and responsibilities aid team transition and collaboration.

Rollercoaster Check-In

Playful approach fosters emotional understanding; rollercoaster metaphor for check-ins.

Secondary Research

Human-centered design requires understanding individuals; secondary research aids.

Shake Down

Group shakes limbs to energize and get moving quickly.

Share Inspiring Stories

Share inspiring stories to create shared consciousness in team.

Staff Your Project

Focused team building for Implementation phase, specialized expertise required.

Stakeholder Analysis

Identify stakeholders, align decisions, and develop communication strategy.

Start Small

Adopt a beginner's mindset for exploring creativity and growth.

Stinky Fish

"Stinky fish" activity promotes openness and growth in groups.

Storyboard

Storyboarding aids idea development without artistic skills.

Sustainable Revenue

Choose appropriate revenue strategy, re-evaluate with team and partners.

Sync Claps

Circle exercise enhances focus and alignment through synchronized clapping.

Systems Thinking: The Iceberg Model

Approach to problem-solving that considers interdependence and underlying causes.

Take a Stand

Dynamic approach for group exploration, fosters team cohesion.

Team Purpose & Culture

Define team purpose, collaborate, create visual representation for workspace.

Team Remote Working Charter

Tool creates remote work charter based on team collaboration.

Team Retrospective

Regular retrospectives enhance team capabilities, identify improvements and problems.

Team Self-Assessment

Structured process for team evaluation with six dimensions.

Telling Our Stories

Structured storytelling builds relationships, trust, and communication in teams.

The 5 Whys

5 Whys technique for problem-solving: identify root cause, ask why.

The AIR Feedback Model

Positive feedback for growth and development.

The Circle of Trust

Circle of Trust evaluates diversity in trusted network.

The Five Whys

Five Whys technique uncovers beliefs and motivations, useful for problem-solving.

The GROW Coaching Model

GROW Model: coaching framework for potential and opportunities.

The Shouting Game

Circle game: avoid eye contact, shout if locked, eliminate. Fun.

The Sketch Game

Drawing exercise reveals cultural differences, biases. Easy to complete.

The Viking

Circle game with energetic movements, fosters merriment and joviality.

This n’ That

Connect things for creativity with Dave Birss' online tool.

Top Five

Identify top 5 ideas to ease human-centered design ideation.

Unintended Consequences

Explore tech's unforeseen effects for fresh business prospects.

User Day-parting

User-centered approach to product/service innovation through persona creation.

Walkabout

Walking boosts creativity, confirmed by Stanford University research.

Ways to Grow Framework

Ways to Grow Framework gauges complexity of design solutions.

What are you doing?

Easy drama game stimulates imagination and encourages creativity.

What's in the Bag?

"What's in the bag?" is a fun icebreaker activity.

Who | What | When Matrix

Use matrix to clarify tasks and deadlines for productivity.

Who Are We Now?

Fun icebreaker to release stress and boost energy levels.

World Cafe

World Café technique fosters meaningful discussions in café-style environment.