Strategic Planning, Meetings, Workshops The OKR Planning workshop helps you turn exhaustive OKR sessions into dynamic and productive meetings. Learn on thisworkshop how to make OKR planning more interactive, guiding your team through the session with creative Ice Breakers andBrainstorms, so you can co-create your OKRs and define the key results and action plans to achieve them.

Design, Desk Research, Product Management When you’re working on a new feature that solves a problem for your users, it’s easy to dive right in and start looking forsolutions. However, it’s important to understand the initial user problem first. Use the Feature Canvas Workshop to do a deep-dive into the user’s problems, the context in which they will use your feature, and the value proposition you will deliver to your users. The template enables you to spend more time exploring the problem to anticipate any potential blind spots before jumping intosolutions mode.

Strategic Planning, HR Recruiters, Team Development Find out how to use the STAR interview method to identify the best candidate for the role. Interviewees can also use the STAR technique to prepare detailed and thorough responses during the interview

Agile Methodology, Meetings, Retrospectives The Sailboat Retrospective is a low-pressure workshop for teams to reflect on how they handled a project. By defining your risks(the rocks), delaying issues (anchors), helping teams (wind), and the goal (land), you’ll be able to work out what you’re doing welland what you need to improve on for the next sprint. Approaching team dynamics with a sailboat metaphor helps everyonedescribe where they want to go together by figuring out what slows them down and what helps them reach their future goals.

Project Management, Strategic Planning, Project Planning Managing stakeholders is integral to completing a project on time and meeting expectations, so here’s how to use a stakeholderanalysis to help. A stakeholder analysis empowers you to meet expectations and complete projects on time by identifyingindividuals, groups, and organizations with a vested interest in a program or process. In a typical stakeholder analysis, you’llprioritize stakeholders based on their influence on a project and seek to understand how best to interface with them throughoutthe course of the project.

Ideation, Brainstorming, Team Meetings Reverse brainstorming is a technique that prompts a group to think of problems, rather than solutions. Because we naturally thinkof problems, it’s a great way to get a group to anticipate problems that may occur during a project. To engage in reverse brainstorming, start by identifying the problem, and then think of things that might exacerbate it. Ask your team to generate ideasaround ways in which the problem could get worse. Reverse the problems into solutions again, and then evaluate your ideas.

Operations, Strategic Planning, Project Planning Balanced scorecards are useful tools for understanding business performance at a glance with regard to customers, employees, business processes, and financial progress. Learn more about BSCs on this Workshop and create your own using BalancedScorecard template.