Gamestorming Book

Gamestorming Book: Summary & Resources

Review our summary of the ultimate Gamestorming book guide designed to help people think outside the box and approach problems with a fresh perspective.

Gamestorming

Gamestorming is a powerful approach to facilitating workshops that emphasizes creativity, engagement, and collaboration through structured play activities. These activities, often referred to as "games," are designed to break down barriers, stimulate innovative thinking, and generate new ideas. This guide will explore the principles of Gamestorming, its benefits, and provide an overview of some key activities that can be incorporated into your workshops.

Guide to Experiential, Participant-Focused Facilitation or Training Methods

Learn about various facilitation and training methods focused on fostering interaction and engagement through experiences. Facilitation and training methods that focus on experiential learning and participant engagement are essential for fostering innovation, creativity, and collaboration within organizations. Design Thinking is a foundational approach we use that influences how these programs are designed and facilitated, emphasizing empathy, ideation, and iterative problem-solving. This is a guide to various methods that align with this participant-focused style.
Change Leadership and Change Management

Change Leadership and Change Management

When we lead our culture of innovation or innovative mindset leadership workshops, we try to help the group zero in on a focus area to ideate on that is valid and important to them. This is an area that is a problem (or opportunity) and can have an impact if it is affected. Change leadership and change management are very common purposes for our programs these days. One specific focus that often gets selected is about encouraging change and adaptability. Learn about popular frameworks in this guide.
CultureCon Conference Organization Culture

CultureCon Conference for Organizational Culture and Connection

CultureCon is one of my favorite conferences to attend each year because they excel at fostering these connections, yielding lasting results for me and many other participants I met. At the last CultureCon, I witnessed the magic of 30-minute breaks between sessions. It's almost like the sessions exist to make these breaks possible. The real value might not be so much in the sessions themselves but the conversations and connections that happen in between. Real collaborations form as a result.
LEGO® Serious Play Guide

LEGO® Serious Play® Open Source PDF Guide

Have you seen or experienced a LEGO® workshop for adults and are interested in learning more about how it's done? There is a formal methodology called LEGO® Serious Play® that's backed by research. Whether you're a facilitator, team leader, or gamification enthusiast, the open source LEGO® Serious Play® PDF guide is an invaluable resource that can help you master this powerful methodology.
LEGO® Workshops for Organizations and Business with LEGO® Serious Play®

LEGO® Workshops for Organizations and Business with LEGO® Serious Play®

You may have seen a workshop done with LEGO® pieces in an organization. There is a specific methodology for using these bricks, blocks, and characters in training or learning and development programs. LEGO® Serious Play® is a facilitation methodology that resonates with me. It's an approach that can make a workshop or training experience highly engaging, interactive, reflective, collaborative, and memorable. All elements I'm focused on in the L&D experience I develop.