Engage participants in groups of various sizes in generating questions, identifying actionable ideas, discovering solutions to chronic problems, and/or providing suggestions of courses of action. These activities utilize rapid cycles in order to source knowledge from the whole group.
Visual communication is a broad spectrum that includes signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, industrial design, advertising, animation, color, and electronic resources - relying in part or whole on eyesight. It is often measured by comprehension of the audience, instead of personal aesthetic or artistic preference.
Enable any size group of people to rapidly build informal connections and share experience, thoughts, know-how, challenges or expectations with each other. This structure can be used to help participants drive conclusions, discover the root causes of systemic problems, make sense of complex situations, or as an entry point to another liberating structure.
Enable participants to immerse themselves in the activities of a target group, opening the door to change and innovation by helping participants walk a mile in someone else's shoes. The observations and experiences can spur rapid performance improvements and expedite solution development. The combined observations of multiple participants makes it easy to spot important patterns.
Decision making is the process of making choices by identifying a decision, gathering information, and assessing alternative resolutions. Using a step-by-step decision-making process can help you make more deliberate, thoughtful decisions by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives. Every decision-making process produces a final choice, which may or may not prompt action.
Get a group of individuals to come together as a team, with a shared purpose and clear understanding of their personal relationship with the project mission. These structures can be used to help initiatives become resilient and enduring, and to bring meetings to productive endpoints.
Drive group activity towards agreement by identifying commonality in the data analyzed. This structure can be used to help participants sort challenges, reveal relationships among data, prioritize shared items, come to agreement on the boundaries of ideas, or prioritize group purpose. This structure can be used as an entry point to another liberating structure.