Culture Tensions Canvas
Tensions Can Hold Us Together, Or Tear Us Appart. The word tension has a negative connotation. However, it’s the tension between opposite forces what holds things–and organizations– together. Take...
View ArticleCulture Experiment Canvas
Design the right experiment to move your culture forward Once you identified exiting cultural tensions, you’ll need to choose one or two and design a solution to start fixing them. The Culture...
View Article36 Questions that Will Turn Strangers into Friends
A powerful empathy exercise for team building (and increasing self-awareness too) Knowing each other well is more than a nice to have. Deep empathy increases understanding, communication, and...
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Uncover the Stinky Fish Canvas
A practical way to address and solve team issues The Stinky Fish Canvas is a quick way to uncover silent problems. It’s a metaphor for the issues that teams carry around, but they either don’t want or...
View ArticleThe Pizza Slice (Feedback Exercise)
Grab a slice and ask a question––leaders eat last Goal Increase feedback and participation–especially among quiet voices. What The ‘Pizza Slice’ is an invitation to provide feedback disguised as a...
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Regain Your Power Canvas
A tool to focus on what you can control The ‘Regain Your Power Canvas’ is an effective way to increase your autonomy. Rather than focusing on what you can control, you flip the situation and reclaim...
View ArticleHelping Heuristics Exercise
Experiment with different team coaching styles Helping Heuristics is a tool for team members to gain insights into feedback and collaboration practices. Heuristics are shortcuts that help us identify...
View ArticleReframe the Loss of Change Canvas
Reframe the loss into a win Change is loss. The “Reframe the Loss of Change” canvas helps turn losses into wins. Even when change is for the best, it usually involves a loss. This tool will help your...
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Shift Your Team’s Mindset: from Blockers to Amplifiers
An exercise to unblock teams and overcome resistance The mindsets your team apply can block or amplify their performance. The way we think filters reality. Mindsets can clarify or cloud our...
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From Titles to Roles Exercise
How to clarify team roles and accountabilities–and let go of hierarchy. Organizations realize that innovation and engagement come from removing hierarchy. Job titles get in the way of growth–they are...
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An Agile Game to Experience the Benefits of Self Organization
The Ball Point game accelerates teamwork One of the biggest hurdles to coaching the benefits of self-organization is that teams need to get rid of the reactive mindset. The Ball Point game is an agile...
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How to Map Your Team’s Heartbeat (And Improve Performance)
A team-building exercise to understand your team’s pulse Mapping your team’s journey is an effective way to understand each member’s perspective and facilitate team building. Just like our body, your...
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The Culture Design Canvas
A tool to map, understand and evolve your workplace culture The Culture Design Canvas is the foundation of most of the work we do at Liberationist. It helps organizations map their culture to both...
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What? So What? Now What?
This reflective method will help you understand problems and discover better solutions. What? So, What? Now, What? is a reflective model that helps teams evaluate a shared experience or a recent event...
View ArticleOne Breath Feedback Exercise
One of the biggest challenges we all have when providing feedback is to stay focused. Most of us can’t remember too many things at once; long, detailed feedback can confuse the receiver. Also, after...
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What Do You Stand For? An Exercise to Discover Your Values
Values are your guide to life—if you know what they are. When we don’t stay true to our values, we suffer. I’ve experienced this too many times in my personal life as well as coaching people. This...
View ArticleGet Rid of Limiting Workplace Rules (Exercise)
Company rules and policies don’t come cheap; they cost your organization money, in the form of disengagement and lack of innovation. The rules that are meant to increase performance end up stifling...
View ArticlePrepare for when the crisis is over (Exercise)
As I write this, I’m reflecting on the fact that the world has dramatically changed in just a few weeks. Leaders are trying to keep people safe, while at the same time, managing their businesses....
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How to Use The Remote Culture Canvas
A guide to facilitating the Remote Culture Canvas to increase collaboration and productivity As most organizations are going remote, trust issues are surfacing. Productivity is suffering, people are...
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The Polak Game: Where Do You Stand?
An exercise to help you understand how you see the future The Polak Game was created by Dutch sociologist and Holocaust survivor Frederik Lodewijk Polak. In his classic work, “The Image of the...
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