Activating Question
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 ...
Flawless Agreements
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 ...
Making decisions as a team
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 ...
Peer Consulting
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 ...
Pentagenda
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
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 ...
