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Be a chicken

Participate in a meeting, without being a required participant and without actively contributing

Expect kindness

Expect kindness by default

Mood paper

At the start of a meeting, ask everyone how he feels. Consider bringing a printout with different possible moods.

One minute silence

In a meeting, suggest to take one minute of silence for everyone

Take a walk

For a meeting with a small number of participants, go out for a walk. Walking is healthy and might give you a new perspective.

Change point of view

When in a meeting stand/sit not at your usual part of the room, but try to stand/sit at some other place. Switching "sides" literally in a meeting might give you a new perspective.

Smile

Try to be a source of happiness and inspiration to your colleagues by giving smiling a try!

Wash out existing ideas

In a meeting, try to quickly write down all ideas that everyone has quickly on a whiteboard or papers, for to have a free mind for new ideas.

Keep aside offtopic stuff

Before a meeting, grab a paper (or text editor) and write down all "pending stuff" (todos, questions, ideas) and put them aside for to be fully concentrated on the meeting's topic.

Radical Candor

Share your honest feedback to someone. Do it to help the person, because you care.

Positive Feedback

Go to someone that does a great job, and tell him, that he does a great job.

Moderation

Ask someone from another team, whether he could moderate a meeting you are planning.

Dream

Take some time (either a coffee break or a short meeting) to share and evolve dreams. Those dreams do not have to be realistic.

Fresh up long meetings

When you realize, that some of your colleagues are having a long meeting, try to help them. This could be to suggest to open a window for to get fresh air, to share some chocolate, to serve fresh water/coffee, to suggest to go for a walk, or similar. Having a short interruption might help to get new ideas.

Change pro/con perspectives

During a meeting, if you disagree with someone, try to at first have a look at pros together with everyone, then have a look at cons together with everyone.

Collective Intelligence

Try to bring collective intelligence one step further among you and your colleagues. Contribute your ideas, suggest new "tips of the day", provide feedback. Let's get better in getting better!

Four sheets

When planning something, give using the four colored sheets a try (clarification, ideas, planning, doing).