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The project team is currently facing a difficult situation originating from their difficulty in envisioning the future and the necessary steps to reach it together with a certain loss of motivation due to a strong feeling of stagnation. You try to unlock the situation by proposing a workshop. Which one would fit the best?

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You draw a staircase with 11 steps, each of them representing a major milestone of the project. The bottom of the stairs corresponds to the first day of the project and the upper step means that the project is released. You locate the present situation in the middle of the stairs. The team is asked to identify and discuss the major steps down and up.

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You ask two volunteers to play a part in front of the team. One will try to defend the project and propose positive arguments and ways forward. The other will do the opposite. You then recapitulate the major arguments of both sides and debate them openly with the team.

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You organize a day out with challenging physical exercises practiced in teams followed by an afterwork dinner and drink. After all, nothing is best for motivation than hard times together, strong common objectives and a promise of good time.

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You visualize all remaining major milestones of the project, starting with today and ending with project release. Then, you ask the team to identify and discuss the necessary actions to move forward from the present situation and to reach the milestones.

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