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The importance of play
Somewhat ironically, we’ve created a world that makes adaptability and creativity paramount, as well as harder. We need healthy organisations to survive and thrive, where playfulness is a key ingredient.
While the benefits of play have been recognised in fields such as psychology and neuroscience, a resistance still remains. Play is often seen as a frivolous activity, less valuable than ‘productive time’. However, play enables us to increase engagement, create psychological safety and it can allow us to embrace ambiguity and creativity. It also makes the good brain juices, such as Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphins, flowing through your brain.
From Agile Today
Hanna Karlsson
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Having taken part in several of Hanna’s workshops I can say that they have helped me creatively, with my facilitation skills and they’ve given me so many great ideas for sessions to pass on. They’ve always been great value and also fun!!
I love those videos as it is easier to understand how an activity can be played, and mostly, what questions could be asked by the facilitator at the end.
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Popular activities and facilitation tips
Facilitation tips and games for remote teams, virtual meetings and in-person workshops from the Play Playbook
The Creative Zoo
Creative and energetic activity that is helpful when introducing collaborative design, lean development, and customer-centred design. This is also useful for reinforcing concepts such as cross-functional teams, collaboration and incremental delivery.
The group is split into two (or more) teams and everyone is assigned a role to create a zoo model with play dough and craft material. The winner is the team with the most points for their zoo model at the end of the third iteration. You need a minimum of 9 people and this activity works well with larger groups.
Switch List
The human brain simply does not know how to multi-task, it can only do one job at a time and switch in between. Context switching is however not simple and takes energy and time. Still, many people struggle with understanding the benefits of limiting how much work you have in progress at the same time.
This is a very simple activity to use when introducing concepts such as sequencing work, limit work in progress (WIP) or even just allowing focus.
The group will write down lists as quickly as possible, in two different ways. First time with constant context switching and the second time allowing more focus.
Storytelling Cubes
When you want the group to learn more about each other, get oxytocin flowing to increase trust and empathy.
You use a set of story cubes and let the images inspire your story-telling – they can be used in many different ways. This activity can work for any small to medium-sized group, and even in one-on-one coaching.