What is a group interview like a Build-A-Bear Workshop?

Where can I find good strategies for leading small group workshops?

• Where can I find resources that describe innovative, interesting, and effective approaches to facilitating brief and/or small group workshops? An example (for a larger group) would be fishbowl conversations: an engaging, creative break from the "I talk, you guys discuss" model of conveying information. Bonus points for things that give both facilitator and participants an active role to play. I'm planning a half-hour workshop as part of a job interview, so I want to have a good, informative workshop and also demonstrate a lot of my competencies in teaching, facilitation, presence, etc. I'm hoping to find a list of resources (maybe a website or a blog?) for creative teaching and facilitation techniques that I might want to incorporate/adapt into this workshop. I've successfully facilitated larger groups in the past, but here I'm dealing with less than 6 people and I'm seeking new perspectives on how to make this great. So far, my searching is mostly finding treatises on the advantages and disadvantages of small group work in academia, which isn't quite what I'm looking for. Do you have any suggestions of techniques or of ways to find techniques? I'm seeking inspiration.

• Answer:

  There's a book called Gamestorming that is my absolute #1 go-to for this kind of thing. It's relatively new, and is by Dave Gray. It's full of games like "Stop, Start, Continue" and while many of them are similar to one another, it's organized by the kind of ideation you're doing. It's a Rosenfeld Media book, and you can probably get the e-book from their website right now. I seriously cannot recommend it enough.