At the start of a project / program it’s important to get a handle on the current situation. Appreciating your strengths, studying opportunities, pinpointing weaknesses and identifying threats is a prudent way to kick you off in the right direction. Otherwise you may stop things that you shouldn’t or spend time, energy and money on stuff that you really should be avoiding at all costs. A great activity to run with your team to achieve this is a SWOT Analysis.
Build better teams.
We help leaders & consultants build capacity & capability in teams with our workshop resources, expertise & coaching.
Want to join us?
Join 140k+ subscribers. Every Saturday get one short actionable tip for improving team performance in less than 4 minutes.
Start here.
More than 16,000 organizations use WorkshopBank including some of the world's largest
3 Ways I Can Help You
1
2
3
About Me
Over the last two decades, I have helped more than a million leaders, managers and consultants design and run collaborative workshops, meetings, and events.
Organizations that use our tools, processes and support improve team performance and outperform their competition.
Delivering one short high-impact actionable tip every Saturday
Join 140k+ subscribers getting tips to help improve team results
Recent Issues of the WorkshopBank Newsletter
Delivering one short high-impact actionable tip every Saturday
Join 140k+ subscribers getting tips to help improve team results
Free Workshop Tools & Activities
Culture Triangle
Culture Triangle is a motivational activity that helps teams or organizations understand each other better in order to improve collaboration between their units. This team building activity achieves its objective by talking about, and getting behind, the stereotypes that professionals from different areas hold about each other.
Team Roles and Responsibilities Template
Team Roles & Responsibilities is an activity using a simple template to document roles and responsibilities of those involved in a project. Use this process to assign roles and responsibilities to members of your change / project team and to ensure that the team as a whole can proceed on a firm footing.
Fishbowl Discussion
Do you want all your key stakeholders pushing with, or against, you and your objectives? A Fishbowl Discussion is a technique used to help a large group of people reach a common understanding on a set of issues or proposal and increase their feeling of participation. In a relatively short amount of time.
The World Cafe
The World Cafe is a 20 year old workshop activity that draws on 7 design principles to create a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group discussions for between 12 to 200 participants. The format is flexible and adapts to many different circumstances limited only by your imagination.
Stakeholder Mapping
Stakeholder Mapping is a graphical illustration of how your stakeholders feel towards your change project or program. It helps you to identify who you need to influence and what action you need to take. It’s one of the most powerful change management processes on WorkshopBank and a must-do activity for any project manager.
Fishbone Diagram
The Fishbone Diagram (also known as the Ishikawa diagram) is used to identify all the factors that have an impact on your problem. It is primarily an issue analysis technique but it also has a motivational and team building effect on participants as they go through the process. There’s nothing like building a shared understanding of a tricky problem to unite a team.