Methodlist

Activating questions are questions designed to gain active and creative participation from the other person. They are used to give the listeners the opportunity for feedback. Activating questions are intended to stimulate a constructive exchange to be able to develop a solution or a prototype one iteration further. Thus, the audience should not be passive listeners, but first feedback providers based on a certain question which is relevant for the presenter ...

This questionnaire should help you to better distinguish between complex and complicated work situations. Based on this understanding you can then decide which methods and tools might improve your work ...

The method of Flawless Agreements, which we would like to introduce to you here, pays off on the topic of trust. Trust is the basis that makes it possible for people to work well together in an organization in the first place. There is not just the one tool or signal that causes people to trust other people; rather, trust is based on many, small things that happen interpersonally. Trust requires accountability, predictability and reliability. And that's what the Flawless Agreement method pays off on ...

Handle with care (aka “manual for me”) is a helpful tool for improving mutual understanding and thus collaboration in teams. Everyone first reflects on their own needs, preferences and ways of working. The aim is to create a short, clear “guide” that helps others to work and interact with you more easily but also more effectively. This method is particularly helpful for new teams, in onboarding processes or in a coaching context ...

Kudo cards are a playful way of giving feedback and expressing appreciation. The cards are essentially designed for positive feedback and achieve their greatest effectiveness by being used transparently for a group of participants which knows each other well ...

In order to make sustainable decisions as a team, we need to agree on who makes which decisions and how decisions are made. There are various methods for making joint decisions, four of which we present to you here ...

The aim is to develop solutions for a concrete professional question. The peer consulting is a structured consultation in a group in which one participant is advised by the other participants according to a fixed procedure with distributed roles ...

The pentagenda helps to develop a common focus for meetings. It orients the attention of the participants to the purpose and the desired outcome of the meeting. By doing this everyone involved will be included. This leads to more acceptance of the meeting, impact is created and (later) also positive routines will be established. Since the pentagenda can be developed ad-hoc, there is not much preparation necessary beforehand ...

Think aloud testing is a method for testing a prototype or final product (e.g. a dashboard, an intranet or sharepoint site) with a user. The user receives a scenario which s/he has to follow. While s/he follows the instructions s/he tries out the product and verbalizes all thoughts that come to his/her mind ...