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    Activities

    Try these activites with your team or on your own to help with everything from getting into a creative headspace to becoming a more collaborative team.
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    • What is a Systems Map?

      A systems map of a public high school experience, which includes students, teachers, principals families, the school board, and the connections between them.

      Learn how to use a systems map to visualize complex systems.

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    • An Activity To Clarify Your Creative Identity

      An activity to define your creative identity in three steps.

      For many of us, it can be difficult to talk about ourselves or find the right words to describe our point of view. Brandon Viney, Group Creative Director at Google, saw this challenge come up for several of the people he mentors and created an activity to help them define their creative identity.

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    • Magic Circle Activity: Create Space to Play with Wild Ideas

      Hands reach for sticky notes and sharpies in the middle of a wooden table.

      Four steps for creating a magic circle to give your team permission to be more playful, generative, creative and innovative.

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    • Strengthen Your Intuition Muscle with This Activity

      A graphic showing intuition as wavy lines circular lines and rational thinking as vertical lines on a graph.

      Try this activity at the start of a new project to help your team get comfortable tapping into their intuition.

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    • Activity: Bring Joy Into Your Body

      Person leaping joyfully in the mountains

      What does stress or anxiety feel like in your body? How about joy? Try these two warm ups to tune into the physical feeling of joy. They can help set the tone for a generative brainstorming session, a round of introductions, a project kickoff, and many other moments.

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    • Activity: 4 Steps to Define Your Purpose

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      Use this 5-minute activity to help define your personal, team, or organizational purpose.

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    • Activity: 5 Steps to Create a Beacon For Change

      Start small start now

      We often have lofty ambitions for things we want to do differently, but don’t know how to get started in realizing those goals. At IDEO, we start with a beacon—a small, tangible win that builds the momentum you need to move from a little change to a big transformation. Here are a few steps for creating your own.

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    • Use This Paper Modeling Activity to Unlock Creativity Before a Meeting

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      Get your hands in motion and fire up your creativity with this easy warm up activity.

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    • Activity: In What Phase of the Collaborative Process Does Your Team Thrive?

      Do you thrive in times of generating options, or making choices? Creative, collaborative work requires us to toggle between moments that expand the space of opportunity—diverging, and ones where we home in and choose how to move forward—converging.

       

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    • Activity: Explore Analogous Inspiration

      When you’ve spent countless hours, months, or years deep inside a particular field or system, a radically fresh perspective can help unlock sticky problems or inspire new directions of exploration. Use this activity solo or with your team to draw insight from analogous contexts and provoke new areas of thinking.

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    • 10 Activities To Generate Better Ideas

      Brendan Boyle, IDEO partner and founder of the IDEO Play Lab, joined us on the Creative Confidence Podcast to share how to bring more playfulness into your work. Get into a creative mindset and generate an abundance of new ideas with his favorite creative warm ups and group activities. This is the first in a series of articles about our conversation with Brendan.

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    • Build Team Trust with this Self-Reflection Activity

       

      Try this activity to build trust among your teammates and uncover the skills and perspectives you can each bring forward.

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