Further information, guides, ideas, information and exercises to complement your work.
Communications planning template: comms2point0 essential comms planning guide
The International Association of Facilitators has some great resources to support on-line workshops
Warm up exercises or ice breakers for workshops
Sentence endings
You start a sentence and participants finish it. If it’s on Zoom, using the chat function is great for this. Simple beginnings often get surprising endings, so try one of these:
- We really made a difference when…
- My most embarrassing moment was…
- I’ll never forget…
- I really earned my salary when…
- What people say about us is…
- I was surprised when…
- What I love about my job is…
Or
Write a scene in a local gov thriller in three easy steps
This is a creative exercise asking participants to make up a fictional story and is best done in pairs.
- Step 1: Create a character, give them a name, any job in local government, give them a strength and a weakness, a desire and an ally or an opponent
- Step 2: Throw them into a disaster – imagine something thrilling happens.
- Step 3: See how the character changes