F4A Resource library

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Storyboarding Toolkit

This Storyboarding Toolkit has over 150 hand-drawn visual assets for you to create storyboards, to bring your customer and product ideas and stories to life in Miro.

miro.com
ToolTemplate

Ben Crothers | Bright Pilots

15 Facilitation courses and certifications

Are you looking to level up your facilitation skills and guide groups with more confidence and effectiveness? Whether you're just starting out or you're a seasoned facilitator looking to upskill, this comprehensive guide will lead you to the best facilitation training courses out there.

www.butter.us
Courses

Cheska Teresa | Butter.us

Four Flows of Facilitation

David Sibbet, the founder of The Grove Consultants International and pioneer of the field of visual, organizational consulting, explains the four flows of facilitation.

youtu.be
Video

David Sibbet | The Grove Consultants International

Responsible Innovation Toolkit

This kit is for the use of Business Support Organisations or others keen to support companies in designing Roadmaps towards Responsible Innovation.

innovation-compass.eu
Toolkit

Responsible Innovation Compass

Hyper Island Toolbox

A collection of workshop tools curated by Hyper Island

toolbox.hyperisland.com
Toolkit

Hyper Island

Design Method Toolkit

Design Method Toolkit for agile, team-based projects

toolkits.dss.cloud
Toolkit

Digital Society School

Thinking Routine Toolbox

Thinking routines help to reveal students’ thinking to the teacher and also help students themselves to notice and name particular “thinking moves,” making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts.

pz.harvard.edu
Toolkit

Project Zero | Harward Graduate School of Education

11 Team Effectiveness Models to Build High-Performing Teams

A team effectiveness model is a tool or framework to help businesses and leaders understand how well their teams function and improve team building, management, and training to ultimately boost performance and accomplish shared goals.

www.aihr.com
Framework

AIHR

18F Methods for human-centered design

A compilation of methods for each one of the human-centered design cycles: Discover, Decide, Make, and Validate.

methods.18f.gov
Toolkit

US Government

Turn your workshops from good to great

In this talk, Brittni breaks down 5 simple ways that you can make sure your next workshop is a huge success with your team AND what it actually takes to get your expertise noticed by your client or manager.

youtu.be
Video

Brittni Bowering

SYPartners collection of tools

A directory of methods, tools, and frameworks you can use within teams, clustered in several topics: communicating, empathizing, ideating, leading, planning, teambuilding.

tools.sypartners.com
Toolkit

SYPartners

Culture Design Tools

Change resources and templates to inspire and equip leaders to make positive change.

www.fearlessculture.design
Tool

Fearless Culture

100open Innovation Toolkit

A wonderful resource covering 7 innovation phases and 30 tools across all of them. It helps to make the case for open innovation and shows how to co-create or crowdsource relevant ideas, prototype the best ones, and construct strong partnerships.

www.100open.com
Toolkit

100open

Books About Creativity, Curiosity, + Play

A collection of books about Creativity, Curiosity, + Play

rachdavis.notion.site
Books

Rachel Davis

The Power of Moments

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.

heathbrothers.com
Books

Chip & Dan Heath

Digital Access Hub

Resources to help you make your content and learning materials accessible for disabled and neurodivergent learners, people with chronic illnesses, non-native language speakers and more.

digitalaccesshub.com
Toolkit

Lotti Kershaw

Accessibility checklists for offline and online events

One in five people today have a disability or an access need, that might require accessibility adjustments. Marie put together these resources to help you understand what will make the biggest difference in the accessibility of your next event.

uxfacilitation.podia.com
Checklist

Marie Dubost

The Scaling Impact Toolkit

The Scaling Impact Toolkit is a collection of resources structured into three stages – Strategy, Model and Implementation – with tools to help you at each stage. The goal is to help teams and organisations worldwide to scale their impact.

www.springimpact.org
Toolkit

Spring Impact

Hybrid Work Guide

This guide is for anyone curious about a hybrid workplace and implementing one into their organization. It will help you better understand and navigate the evolving and complex hybrid workplace so you can decide if it’s the best fit for your team.

voltagecontrol.com
Guide

Voltage Control

SparkCanvas Workshop

Ideation method for Design Thinking Workshops and Design Sprints

sparkcanvas.de
Tool

Sebastian F Mueller

Meeting Effectiveness ToolChest

These meeting tool templates are designed to encourage simultaneous participation from everyone in your remote meeting.

conceptboard.com
TemplateGuide

Mike Clargo

Co-Reflect Toolkit

The CoReflect Toolkit consists of a set of fourteen evaluation cards. Use them to evaluate co-design processes, gain insights, and improve future co-creative work. Each card contains an exercise, that can be used as an individual or as a group exercise at the end of a workshop.

www.ccsdi.no
ToolTemplate

CCSDI

Fun Retrospectives

Activities and ideas for making agile retrospectives more engaging

www.funretrospectives.com
Toolkit

Caroli.org

The Debriefing Cube

A compilation of great debriefing questions.

www.kilearning.net
Tool

The Debriefing Cube

42 fresh icebreakers from top facilitators

Tired of cringe-inducing icebreakers? We asked professional facilitators to share the virtual icebreakers they actually use to kick off their remote workshops.

www.butter.us
TemplateTool

Anamaria Dorgo | The Butter Team

Hosting & Harvesting Meaningful Conversations in Virtual Spaces

This guide provides a resource for hosting and harvesting in virtual environments utilizing the practices, principles, frameworks and methods from the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter.

docs.google.com
ToolkitGuide

Art of Hosting

Virtually Agile Retrospecives

Over 100 freely accessible templates now, from retrospectives to canvases.

www.thevirtualagilecoach.co.uk
TemplateTool

Chris Stone

21 Facilitation Podcasts

We've rounded up our top 21 picks on inspiring facilitation podcasts that every facilitator should add to their library.

www.butter.us
Podcast

Anamaria & Cheska | Butter Team

Top 12 Facilitation Techniques And Tactics From An Expert Facilitator

In this video, Dee Scarano, expert, full-time facilitator, shares the 12 things she does to elevate her facilitation game from good to great. These are simple yet highly-effective techniques and tactics that all facilitators can implement—whether you’re running your first ever workshop or your fifty-first.

youtu.be
Video

Dee Scarano

Service Design Tools ⚒️

A beautiful collection of tools and methods covering all stages of service design: research, ideation, prototyping, implementation and evaluation. They also have a section called "enhanced tools" that cover complex topics like behavioural change, systems thinking, and future casting.

servicedesigntools.org
Toolkit

std

The Decider

A tool which supports groups in decision making and helping them become more conscious of their decision making.

thedecider.app
Tool

NOBL

30 Circles

Here’s one quick, simple exercise to get creative muscles warmed up. We learned it from David’s mentor, Bob McKim, back when David was a product design student. It’s called Thirty Circles, and you can do it on your own or in a group. The goal is to push people to test their creativity by turning circles into recognizable objects in a very short period of time.

www.ideo.com
Tool

IDEO

Alternate Uses Test

Designed by J.P. Guilford in 1967, the Alternative Uses Test asks you to think of as many uses as possible for a simple object, like a brick or a shoe or a paperclip. The test is usually time-constrained. Practicing this widely used divergent thinking test will help you develop your ability to think creatively. Why not try it out for yourself!Take an object, give yourself a time constraint, for example two minutes, and try to come up with as many alternate uses for that object as possible.

www.creativehuddle.co.uk
Tool

Creative Huddle

Creativity Test: The Incomplete Figure Test

You have three minutes to add lines to the figures below to make pictures out of them. Try to tell a story with your pictures and give each picture a title.

hannahsstudyincreativity.wordpress.com
Tool

Hannah Madans

Mash-Up Innovation

Mash-ups is a collaborative idea generation method in which participants come up with innovative concepts by combining different elements together. Mash-ups demonstrates how fast and easy it can be to come up with innovative ideas.

toolbox.hyperisland.com
Tool

Hyper Island

Draw Toast

You can use the Draw Toast exercise to introduce people to the concepts of visual thinking, working memory, mental models and/or systems thinking. This workshop helps people engage with each other and think visually - it's a fantastic mapping exercise with focus on building a systems model of an important challenge, ie: clarifying your vision, improving cash flow, figuring out the next bold challenge. Bonus, it’s fun!

toolbox.hyperisland.com
Tool

Hyper Island

Alter Ego

The best time to use this activity is when you find yourself or your team stuck on a problem or generating humdrum ideas. What makes it fun is that it removes limitations or governors on ideas. To begin, first think about the problem you’re trying to solve. Then pair it with a corresponding alter ego.

spin.atomicobject.com
Tool

Kimberly Crawford

Follow the Rabbit: A Filed Guide to Systemic Design

A toolkit everyone looking to learn more about Systemic Design. It contains 17 step-by-step methods and a detailed guide for setting up Systemic Design workshops.

drive.google.com
ToolkitGuide

CoLab

Tapestry

An open-source online learning platform that allows users, authors, viewers, students, and instructors to collaborate in the development of interactive, associative, and multi-modal content.

www.home.tapestry-tool.com
Tool

UBC Vancouver

Padlet

Make beautiful boards to collect, organize, and present anything.

padlet.com
Tool

Health Monitor

The Health Monitor is your team's chance to take an honest look in the mirror. You'll assess your team against the eight attributes most commonly found among healthy teams. At the end of Health Monitor session, you'll identify strengths to exploit as well as challenge areas to grow.

www.atlassian.com
Tool

Allassian

Atlassian Team Playbook

Plays are free workshop resources for addressing common team challenges and starting important conversations.

www.atlassian.com
Toolkit

Atlassian

How Now Wow Matrix

This helps the group evaluate any ideas they may have gotten out of the brainstorming phase. It traditionally uses the variables: Easy to implement to impossible to implement, and normal ideas to original ideas to start to cluster. After the plotting on the matrix I would hold a voting activity for the group to then vote on their top 3 ideas with something like dot voting. Just so you can prioritize.

gamestorming.com
Tool

Dave Gray | Gamestorming

The Sailboat Retrospective

The sailboat retrospective is a retrospective technique where you and your agile team members will envision the last sprint as a sailboat. It’s a visual way for your team to identify what pushed the project forward, as well as what held it back.

miro.com
Tool

10 for 10

10 for 10 is the fastest, easiest and most commonly used brainstorming method at AJ&Smart!

youtu.be
Video

AJ&Smart

Rose, thorn, bud

This framework helps a user or group conduct an analysis by visually categorizing positive (rose), potential (bud), or negative (thorn) aspects of a topic (e.g., system, product, process).

itk.mitre.org
Tool

Mitre Innovation Toolkit

The Canvas Revolution

A collection of over 140 fee canvases to choose from

thecanvasrevolution.com
Toolkit

The Canvas Revolution

Disney Brainstorming Method

Film producer and innovator Walt Disney used to think-up and refine ideas by breaking the process into three distinct chunks. The dreamer, the realist, and the spoiler (or critic).

idea-sandbox.com
ArticleTool

Idea Sandbox

Ideation Method: Mash-up

The Mash-up emphasizes quantity. The more ideas you come up with, the better chance you have to reach a truly brilliant solution. It also applies constraints. Quick sprints drive creative sessions and avoid burnout. Perhaps most importantly, it helps us start down the path from the ridiculous to the radical solution.

www.ideou.com
Tool

IDEO

Cover Story

Cover Story is a game about pure imagination. The purpose is to think expansively around an ideal future state for the organization; it’s an exercise in visioning. The object of the game is to suspend all disbelief and envision a future state that is so stellar that it landed your organization on the cover of a well-known magazine.

gamestorming.com
Tool

Gamestorming

Top 9 facilitation newsletters you’ll want in your inbox in 2023

It might be hard to imagine ever getting excited about opening your inbox. 😅 But picture the thrill of opening your email to fresh insights that supercharge your facilitation skills. Here, we've cherry-picked the top nine facilitation newsletters that grace our inboxes regularly. Read on!

www.butter.us
Article

Butter

30 must-read books every facilitator should have

We’ve compiled 30 must-read books every facilitator should have on their bookshelf – so get ready to crack open some powerful stories, great advice, and inspiring thoughts as you transport yourself through ideas from authors around the world!

www.butter.us
Article

Butter

11 ways to get more facilitation clients

AJ&Smart's Jakub Michalski shares actionable tips for winning more business as a facilitator.

www.butter.us
Article

Jakub Michalski

How to gather workshop feedback, with example questions

It can be as simple as ‘just’ sending a survey, or emailing a couple of questions to attendees, but there’s a lot to think about. Follow these steps to make sure you’re getting the most out of your workshop feedback.

pipdecks.com
Article

Pip Decks

How to collect meaningful workshop feedback?

medium.com
Article

Sean Mc Guire

Ten simple rules for measuring the impact of workshops

Workshops are used to explore a specific topic, to transfer knowledge, to solve identified problems, or to create something new. In funded research projects and other research endeavours, workshops are the mechanism used to gather the wider project, community, or interested people together around a particular topic. However, natural questions arise: how do we measure the impact of these workshops? Do we know whether they are meeting the goals and objectives we set for them? What indicators should we use? In response to these questions, this paper will outline rules that will improve the measurement of the impact of workshops.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Article

12 Levers Of Transfer Effectiveness

In order to make learning stick, we focus on ‘building one’s transfer muscles’ by using science-based transfer tools and interventions. To make learning professionals even fitter, we have partnered with The Institute For Transfer Effectiveness spearheaded by Dr. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel, who has been passionately working towards increasing the effectiveness of training and development programs for many years now.

thelearninggym.co
Article

The Learning Gym

HOW TO PERFECT YOUR WORKSHOP TIMEKEEPING

Time is such a precious commodity. People have chosen to give this up to take part in your workshop, so you need to treat it with respect. If you struggle with timekeeping when you facilitate, how do you get better at it? Here are a few suggestions.

francolondon.me
Article

Franco London

Techniques for keeping Workshops running on time

Two concrete techniques you can use in your workshops to stay in track

elabor8.com.au
Article

Ryan McKergow

5 tips for better workshop follow-up

Although we pay a lot of attention to the design and facilitation of workshops, the workshop follow-up is often left as an afterthought. Even a great workshop will lose its impact if you don’t make the most of the momentum that was created on the day.

blog.prototypr.io
Article

Alison Coward

Training follow-up Factsheet

Follow-up is essential in all training situations as it provides participants with further support and skill development. Also, follow-up improves existing trainings as well as future training plans. The lecturers get a feedback on what the participants actually learned during the training, whereas the participants have the opportunity to reflect on their learning a second time.

sswm.info
ArticleTemplate

Stefanie Keller (Ecosan Services Foundation)

14 Smart Ways To Follow Up With Attendees After A Presentation

Connecting again not only ensures that participants get the most out of their experience, but can also help you build valuable professional relationships. Not sure where or how to begin your post-presentation outreach? Here, 14 members of Forbes Communication Council share their best advice for making it happen.

www.forbes.com
Article

Forbes

The Ultimate Guide to Workshop Facilitation

Becoming a facilitator is a great career move, and learning the basics of facilitation is easier than you might think! In this article, we’ll lay out all the things you’ll need to consider when embarking on your facilitation journey. 

www.workshopper.com
Article

Workshopper

How To Run Inclusive Meetings

The benefits of inclusive meetings are endless. Employees feel valued, heard, and respected, while teams and organizations benefit from a diversity of ideas and perspectives. If you haven’t yet given much thought to the inclusivity of your meeting culture, now is the time—starting with this guide.

www.workshopper.com
Article

Workshopper

The Ultimate Guide to Co-Facilitation: What It Is, the Pros & Cons, Plus 8 Best Practices

If you’re new to co-facilitation (or just want to get better at it), look no further. This is your ultimate guide, and it covers everything you need to know.

www.workshopper.com
Article

Workshopper

How To Deal With Workshop Skeptics: 9 Rules for Successful Conflict Management

Skeptics require a little (sometimes a lot) more convincing as to why your workshop is valuable, and you’ll need to work a bit harder to get them motivated.It sounds daunting, but let us reassure you: there’s no need to sweat the skeptics. With these 9 tried-and-tested strategies, you’ll be equipped to diffuse any potential scenes as they arise. Who knows, you may even turn your skeptics into workshop evangelists…

www.workshopper.com
Article

Workshopper

CREATIVE BREAKOUT SESSION IDEAS FOR 2023

Let's dive into the world of creative breakout session ideas for 2023 and discover how to plan, organize, and measure the success of these engaging experiences.

gogather.com
Article

GoGather

How to facilitate a successful virtual breakout group session

When done correctly, breakout sessions are an excellent opportunity to have candid conversations and connect with other participants on a more intimate level than a broader meeting allows. But when planned poorly, breakout sessions can feel disjointed, nerve-wracking, and boring — or even a waste of time.

miro.com
Article

Miro

Lean Coffee

Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. There are currently dozens of Lean Coffees happening world-wide, including Seattle, San Francisco, Stockholm, Toronto, Boulder, New York City, and more.

leancoffee.org
Tool

Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith

Ground Rules with Examples

Ground rules are guidelines that participants in a meeting agree to follow in order to make the meeting more productive and enjoyable. Common ground rules include things like being respectful of other participants, not interrupting, and staying on topic.

www.facilitator.school
Article

Facilitator School

Social Contract

This exercise makes you think collectively of behaviours you want to strive and avoid within your team and the project you’re facing. In the end you’ll have a social contract which you’ve agreed to with all the members within the team.

www.mischiefmakers.co
Tool

Mischief Makers

Building Rapport: Top tips for facilitators

francolondon.me
Article

Franco London

Mischief Meeting Moments

A collection of check-in, check-out and connection activities for workshops and meetings

www.mischiefmeetingmoments.com
Tool

Mischief Makers

The Serendipity Machine

A virtual collection for check-in qeustions and conversation prompts

serendipitymachine.abracademy.com
Tool

Abracademy

5 tips on setting realistic training objectives

This article will show you how to create and write effective training objectives.

www.talentlms.com
Article

Aris Apostoloulos for TalentLMS

Six steps to creating training objectives (With examples)

In this article, we explore what training objectives are, highlight their importance, outline how to create them and provide examples of objectives for different scenarios.

uk.indeed.com
Article

Indeed

How to Set Realistic Employee Training Objectives (2024)

In this article, we explore the role of training objectives, how they guide the learning process and contribute to increased motivation, focused outcomes, and ultimately, improved performance.

whatfix.com
Article

WhatFix

TIPS ON HOW TO BUILD THE ENGAGEMENT OF YOUR ONLINE AUDIENCE

Practical examples of how you can engage your audience online.

www.mischiefmakers.co
Article

Mischief Makers

SUSAN WHEELAN: IMGD MODEL

The 5-stages of group development by Susan Wheelan.  It combines various theories, offers a comprehensive overview, and is always the first stop on our tour into group dynamics and group development.

www.mischiefmakers.co
Article

Mischief Makers

POWER OF REFLECTION: THE WELL OF KNOWLEDGE

The Well of Knowledge is a reflection tool, about figuratively diving into the deep (the four layers of the well) to better understand learning.

www.mischiefmakers.co
Article

Mischief Makers

Using Training Audience Analysis To Inform Training Design

Audience analysis is the process of gathering information about the targeted training audience in to design effective training programs that cater to the learners’ preferences and motivations. Data gathered can determine barriers to success as well as which training methods will be most effective.

elearningindustry.com
Article

The Training Industry

How to scope a consulting project

A blueprint for project scoping, including pitfalls to avoid.

www.forbes.com
Article

Forbes

8 Terms that Should Be Included an SOW (Scope of Work)

A Scope of Work (SOW) is a document that defines how a project will be executed through specific tasks, activities, deliverables, and timelines. An SOW also provides important legal protections for both you and your client.

www.mbopartners.com
Article

MBO Partners

Scope Creep: How to set and keep better boundaries with tour clients

Consulting firm clients occasionally (or frequently) don’t live up to their obligations on a project—mid-project approvals come late, or not at all, critical information is missing, etc. Sometimes, clients ask your consulting firm to take on extra work that was outside of scope. Both of these client behaviors present a challenge for your consulting firm.

www.davidafields.com
Article

David A. Fields Consulting Group

Cozy Juicy Real

A virtual board game to foster connection

cozyjuicyreal.com
Tool

Cozy Juicy Real

Virtual Story Dice

The virtual variation of the beloved storytelling and creativity tool Story Dice.

davebirss.com
Tool

Dave Birss

Daresay Check-in Generator

A virtual check-in questions generator. Has 3 categories: Creative, reflective and practical

checkin.daresay.io
Tool

Daresay

3 methods to organize productive brainstorming

Fortunately, brainstorming has a bright side: civilized ideating together. At least, this is how it appears in the books on creativity. So, can we make it real? Let’s talk about three methodologies I tried with colleagues.

medium.com
ToolArticle

Slava Shestopalov

Innovation Toolkit

MITRE’s Innovation Toolkit is a collection of proven and repeatable problem-solving methods to help you and your team do something different that makes a difference.

itk.mitre.org
Toolkit

Mitre

The Serendipity Machine

It generates random, revealing, wonder-provoking questions and prompts. Helping you to bring joy, connection and a touch of magic to team meetings.

serendipity.pages.dev
Tool

Abracademy

Creative Conversations

Conversation prompt generator

creative-conversation.webflow.io
Tool

Dropbox design

Facilitating XYZ Youtube channel

FacilitatingXYZ (www.facilitating.xyz) is an online resource for ALL facilitators featuring videos, articles, books, and downloadables. The FacilitatingXYZ YouTube channel hosts all of our videos from short 1-minute videos to full-length (1hr+) long interviews.

www.youtube.com
Video

Meg Bolger

Chad Littlefield YouTube channel

Examples of activities for online and offline gatherings, and best practices

www.youtube.com
Video

Chad Littlefield

AJ&Smart Workshop Design Playlist

Short educational videos on workshop design

youtube.com
Video

AJ&Smart

How to Design and Run a Successful Workshop

An article outlining the building blocks for a great workshop design.

www.workshopper.com
ArticleGuide

AJ&Smart

4C’s workshop design framework

The 4C’s s framework is presented by the author as the structure that can be used “to design any type of workshop, regardless of the topic, length or outcome”. The method has the following 4 steps: Collect, Choose, Create and Commit.

medium.com
Guide

AJ&Smart

The H3Uni Resources Library

A great source for activities for those working with generative practices, tackling complex transformation, sense-making, system design etc.

www.h3uni.org
Toolkit

H3Uni

Tscheck.in

An online check-in and check-out questions generator.

tscheck.in
Tool

Denk Werk

Stock Deck

The Stoke Deck is a set of warm-up activities designed to boost energy, build connection, foster empathy, support collaboration, and cultivate creativity. Any time you need to stoke your team, click the button below to randomly select a new activity. Enjoy!

stokedeck.io
Tool

Taylor Cone

Icebreaker Generator

An online icebreaker questions generator based on several different topics.

icebreaker.range.co
Tool

Range

Intuiti Virtual Cards

It’s a set of cards, also virtual, that can be used during workshops as a conversation starter, creativity session, idea generation hot start, or for reflection and personal development workshops.

experience.intuiti.it
Tool

Intuiti

Facilitator Handbook

A comprehensive facilitation guide.

wecanmove.net
GuideToolkit

Curiosity Society

Tools for Better Thinking

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

untools.co
Toolkit

25 trusty frameworks and toolkits to enhance your facilitation skills

We've handpicked 25 bookmark-worthy frameworks and toolkits that you need to have at your fingertips. Find out why continuous learning is a game-changer for facilitators, and get ready to dive into these valuable resources!

www.butter.us
FrameworkToolkit

Anamaria Dorgo

Virtual icebreakers: 42 fresh activities from top facilitators

Tired of cringe-inducing icebreakers? We asked professional facilitators to share the virtual icebreakers they actually use to kick off their remote workshops.

www.butter.us
ToolArticle

Anamaria Dorgo

44 facilitation card decks to inspire your next workshop

Looking for quick inspiration for sparking conversation and generating brilliant ideas in your next workshop? We saved you some time by rounding up the Butter Community’s favorite facilitation decks.

www.butter.us
ArticleTool

Anamaria Dorgo

Playing with intent

Learn practical tips and get inspired to design and facilitate playful activities that help your teams be more effective.

www.butter.us
Article

Susanne Heiss

Meaningful meeting design: 4 personality types to plan for

Do meaningful meetings, where everyone feels connected and heard, really exist? They can. But only if you plan for these typical meeting characters.

www.butter.us
Article

Friederike Abitz

Pointstorming, not brainstorming: How to spark creative ideas

Learn how to generate infinite points of inspiration for your next great idea.

www.butter.us
Tool

Monica Fajardo

Designing engaging workshops: 10 tips for remote facilitators

Learn how to get more participation during remote workshops with these simple workshop design tips.

www.butter.us
Article

Line Vestergaard & Theresa Lauritsen

How to create meaningful connections in remote teams 

Learn Romy Alexandra's top tips for building group rapport in remote settings to achieve the same level of connection in online sessions as you could in person.

www.butter.us
Article

Romy Alexandra

Your guide to hosting empowering virtual networking events

Learn how to host online networking events that people will never forget!

www.butter.us
Article

Ece Kurtaraner

Fostering psychological safety in your teams

A ButterMixer session hosted by Leo Chan on fostering psychological safety.

youtu.be
Video

Butter Community

Sunset Activity

A short video of Rachel Davis hosting the Sunset Activity during one of her community sessions. This is a warm-up or hot start activity for ideation. If you want to run the same activity in your Butter session, here is the template Rachel created for us: https://templates.butter.us/template/the-sunset-activity

youtu.be
Video

Rachel Davis

Walk Stop Hop Clap

A short applied improvisation activity by Gary Ware for one of our Learning Playground event series.

youtu.be
Video

Gary Ware

Designing Joyful Brainstorming Experiences

In this seIn this session, we’ll dive into the joyful side of brainstorming, and tackle actionable methodologies and tools to encourage more creative ideas – and get your team excited for them.

youtu.be
Video

Rachel Davis

How to design powerful experiences

A ButterMixer hosted by Simon and Andy from KAOSPILOT about (learning) experience design and key elements.

youtu.be
Video

Andy Sontag and Simon Kavanagh

Designing your workshop with ease

A simple framework and 10 tools you can use in any variation to design your next workshop

youtu.be
Video

Nathy Ravez

The Engagement Spiral

A framework to foster engagement in virtual sessions in a safe and natural way.

youtu.be
Video

Jan Keck

Integrating movement into virtual sessions

A compilation of easy to use ways to integrate movement in virtual sessions.

youtu.be
Video

Amy Luckey

Tell your workshop like a story

How to use storytelling tactics to design your workshop

youtu.be
Video

Steve Rowling

The why and how behind difficult situations in workshops

A great overview of the main archetypes and their needs, so that you can meet their expectations and avoid conflicts.

youtu.be
Video

Andra Stefanescu

Magical Meetings Quick-Start

A framework to follow to design and host impactful and valuable meetings.

youtu.be
Video

Douglas Ferguson

The 5E Experience Design Model

This article will take you step-by-step through the 5E model. Which is an Experience Design model that can be used to design meaningful services, events, or learning experiences. It will help you design and orchestrate experiences that deliver meaningful outcomes.

medium.com
Article

Andy Sontag

LEARNING ARCH DESIGN: USERS MANUAL

A method for unlocking student engagement and ownership of learning through packaging the pursuit of knowledge & creating a call to adventure... Learn how to design learning that unfolds and builds ownership, craft, talent, genius whilst sustaining the flow, transparency, challenge and impact.

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Simon Kavanagh

How to build trust in a team

At the core of every team is trust and it's incredibly important to build that foundation from the beginning. Watch this video to know how to build trust in a team so you can work efficiently together!

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Chad Littlefield

5 Common Habits That Make People Instantly Dislike You

When you're talking to someone you've never met, do you sometimes get the feeling that you instantly don't like them? That's understandable, especially if they're doing the things I'm talking about in this video! Watch this video to know the 5 common habits that make people instantly dislike you!

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Chad Littlefield

Group Dynamics—A mischievous exploration

—The role of a facilitator in groups —Understanding which stage a group is in —How to support a group to progress and develop into the next stage

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Katharina Jacobi

SUSAN WHEELAN: IMGD MODEL

Covers the Integrated Model of Group Development, aka. the 5-stages of group development by Susan Wheelan. It combines various theories, offers a comprehensive overview, and is always the first stop on our tour into group dynamics and group development.

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Mischief Makers

Group Dynamics and Behaviors

This study provides general information about the studies on the groups and group dynamics.

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Hüseyin Gençer

Rethinking group dynamics: How to be better together

In this talk, Daria Vodopianova challenges us to question the way we see group interactions. Drawing on group dynamics techniques used by entrepreneurs, she encourages us to reinvent the way we coexist, in order to cultivate stronger self-development and motivation. Daria Vodopianova is a serial entrepreneur, startup mentor and author with a mission to empower people to surpass their potential.

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Daria Vodopianova

Closing and check-out collection of Butter Templates

A collection of activities to close your sessions

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Debriefing Deck

A good debriefing is more important than the activity itself. Use this deck of debriefing questions after your workshop or training activities, to deepen reflection and learning.

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Fishbowl Conversation

One of our favourite conversation format is the Fish Bowl, because: 1) it's suitable for large groups 2) it's focused but still dynamic 3) it's applicable both on and offline

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Mischief Makers

What is Open Space Technology? (Ultimate Guide)

Open Space Technology is particularly effective when no one knows the answer, and when a diverse group of people with different perspectives is required to find a solution.

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Facilitator School

World Café

Drawing on seven integrated design principles, the World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. Each element of the method has a specific purpose and corresponds to one or more of the design principles.

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How to host deeper connections with the Listening Triangle

A dep dive into the listening triangle by Daniel Stillman

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Daniel Stillman

The Nine Elements of Transformative Facilitation

One way to think about these components is as a fundamental conversation operating system (OS) with nine components.

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Daniel Stillman

Facilitation Means Designing Conversations

Meetings are experiences in the same way a digital product or service is an experience. And experiences have a clear architecture, that, once you see, it’s impossible to unsee. And once you see the components of an experience, you can shape them!

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Daniel Stillman

11 Ways to Facilitate Great Conversations

11 principles for facilitating great conversations in almost any environment

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Coaching for Leaders

Tips on Facilitating Effective Group Discussions

Effective facilitation of a discussion involves the recognition and employment of different perspectives and different skills to create an inclusive environment. In order to do so, it is important to consider the features of effective discussions, and conditions that promote small group interaction and engagement. Discussion is a powerful mechanism for active learning; a well-facilitated discussion allows the participant to explore new ideas while recognizing and valuing the contributions of others.

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The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning

Movement activities for online workshops

A collection of simple and effective ways to bring movement into your virtual sessions

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