Do you ever find feedback or team sessions predictable, boring, and don't actually fulfill their goals? Have you ever been into sprint retrospective and feedback is not always that useful or forthcoming? I'm sure the answer is yes.
A major part to team working is recognising that everyone has something to add. The person who is often quite quiet can surprise you with their ideas when given the opportunity to speak. When everyone feels included and engaged the team's productivity is increased, and importantly happiness also increases. A happy team is also a productive team.
Existing ways of engaging are often inhibiting and suite the extrovert or more outspoken. Liberating Structures offers an alternative way to approach how people work together. It provides a toolbox with practices that can be taken to replace or complement conventional practices.
They are designed to include everyone in shaping what needs to be done and done in a way to remove the conventional and biases that favour the extrovert.
The names of the techniques are listed below but you can find them all at www.liberatingstructures.com.
- 1-2-4-All
- Impromptu Networking
- Nine Whys
- Wicked Questions
- Appreciative Interviews (AI)
- TRIZ
- 15% Solutions
- Troika Consulting
- What, So What, Now What? W³
- Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD)
- Shift & Share
- 25/10 Crowd Sourcing
- Wise Crowds
- Min Specs
- Improv Prototyping
- Helping Heuristics
- Conversation Café
- Users Experience Fishbowl
- Heard, Seen, Respected (HSR)
- Drawing Together
- Design StoryBoards
- Celebrity Interview
- Social Network Webbing
- What I Need From You (WINFY)
- Open Space Technology
- Generative Relationships STAR
- Agreement-Certainty Matrix
- Simple Ethnography
- Integrated~Autonomy
- Critical Uncertainties
- Ecocycle Planning
- Panarchy
- Purpose-To-Practice (P2P)
