Tools & Toolboxes

Leapfrog is a research project with very practical outcomes; tools and toolboxes that anyone can use to do more creative and engaging consultation.

Our tools are not prescriptive formulas or processes, but instead effective ways to do more with less time, transforming activities and workshops to make them better. Our toolboxes are collections of related tools that go together well, but we are just as interested how people appropriate and modify our tools in ways we could never predict.

Leapfrog has produced over 50 tools, many of which appear in the toolboxes also featured on this page. As of 2018, you’ll also see Practitioner Toolboxes: collections of tools designed by individuals who use Leapfrog tools and want to share tools within their organisations and beyond.

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Rethinking R&D in Museum Learning

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Conversations at Scale

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Tools for Food Stories

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Practitioner Toolbox

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Working with Young People

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9 Boxes

A flexible way to reflect on 9 days, 9 meals, 9 ingredients... 9 of anything that matters.

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Any Idea Cards

Encouraging and Celebrating Idea Sharing in Teams

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Backpack

This tool is good for ensuring you have everything you need to make each and every stage of a journey.

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BADGE

ID badges with messages written on to help support workers think about why badges make young people feel uncomfortable.

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Bridge over troubled waters

This tool is good for creating a plan of activities to meet goals, milestones and deadlines.

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Building Success

Work together to figure out how to use your building and space

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Building Success v2

Work together to figure out how to use your building and space

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Building the team

This tool is good for thinking about who should be around the table in many different situations.

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Bunch of Impact

A fun and simple way for volunteers and coordinators to capture their stories of impact.

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Common Cards

Find connections and start good conversations

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Comms Stretcher & Comms Focus

Be more adventurous with how you reach out to your communities

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Comms Stretcher & Comms Focus V2

Be more adventurous with how you reach out to your communities

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Cycle Map

A map to help plan out a complete cycle of R&D

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Dinner Plates

A playful placemat for talking about food together.

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Engagement Map Key

A key to prompt teams consisting of members of staff to come together to discuss and draw out their process for translating engagement into evidence.

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Evaluation Game

Evaluation Game is a board game designed specifically to gather stories and qualitative data through a fun and engaging way.

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Event Canvas

Celebrate successes and reflect on challenges

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Event Jigsaw

Reach out for people, skills and ideas to make events happen

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Everybody

A Collection of Tools to Help Young People Communicate What They Want

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Everyone’s voices matter

This tool is good for capturing and sorting ideas or thoughts from different people.

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Expanding Ideas

This tool is good for encouraging conversations where everyone can express thoughts, opinions and ideas.

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Facilitator’s Notes Sheet

Providing facilitators the opportunity to record notes on engagement

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Feedback Cycle Request

Get feedback on your engagement outcomes from people working at different levels of your organisation

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Feedback Cycle Request v2

Get feedback on your engagement outcomes from people working at different levels of your organisation

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Flip

Draw attention to the unexpected variety in what you offer

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Flow Customer Tools

Tools to match customer's needs with services

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Flow Customer Tools v2

Tools to match customers' needs with services

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Food Places

Scribble-on sheets to kick start discussion about buying and cooking food.

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Food Safari Menu

Help people explore local food with a menu of 12 mini research challenges (and a big map).

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Food Snapshots

Capture how people shop, cook and eat day to day.

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Grid

A tool to create interactive grids anywhere

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Interactive Journey

This tool is designed to help people enjoy exploring a space, using all their senses to pay attention to particular things there, and respond to them creatively.

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Local Food Cards

45 photos to inspire people to share funny stories and tales about food.

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Make It Stick

A PowerPoint template offering you an easy way of creating, adapting, and re-mixing your own graphics for the Visual Voice tool entirely matched to your needs.

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On a roll

This tool is good for thinking about an issue from different perspectives.

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Personally Important

Individuals can record the issues that are important to them personally

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Plan B

Make sure jobs get done even when things change

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Prioritise Together

Work together to find out what matters the most

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Progress Tools

Set out goals and keep track of progress

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Reflective Tools

Reflect on and record the experience of a service

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Role Bingo

Decide what needs doing, and who will do what

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Sea of Trust

This tool is good for thinking about an issue from different perspectives.

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Seeing Differently

The postcards to share our observations and thoughts during a deliberative walk

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Seeing Things

Seeing things is an engagement tool to gather ideas and solutions from people in time poor communities, quickly and effectively.

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Share the work

Decide what needs doing, and who will do what

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Skeleton Tool Card Deck

Remixable ideas for collecting and analysing R&D data, then sharing insights.

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Snap Shot Tools

Take a snap shot of a service

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Snapshot + Story

Create a quick overview of engagement work to share with others in your organisation

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Snapshot + Story V2

Create a quick overview of engagement work to share with others in your organisation

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Snapshot + Story v3

Create a quick overview of engagement work to share with others in your organisation

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Sorting Out Target Control

Involve people in the analysis and conversation around responses on Target Control

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Sound Advice

An opportunity for young people to give advice to a person younger than themselves or someone going through something they have already experienced.

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Stick With It

Connect people with services and make a plan of action

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Storyboard Contract

Young people can use the Storyboard Contract to help communicate ideas for better meetings.

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Storyboard Contract v2

Young people can use the Storyboard Contract to help communicate ideas for better meetings.

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Super Grid

This tool is good for thinking about an issue from different perspectives.

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Surfing the wave of Change

This tool is good for mapping the feelings of people during any period of change.

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Talking Food Card Deck

45 questions to help start conversations about food and food poverty.

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Target Control

Target control is a way to get young people to think about how they can gain more control over the things that frustrate them and make changes in their life.

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Target Support

Test out your ideas and see which stick

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The Right Ideas

A Collection of Tools for Finding the Right Words, Questions & Opinions with Young People

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The Small Things

Don't let the little issues get in the way of the big picture

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The Small Things V2

Don't let the little issues get in the way of the big picture

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The Uber Plan

This tool is good for working in groups to plan the stages of a journey, agree where they want to get to and think about what could happen along the way.

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Think Outside Bookmark

Encouraging staff to leave their comfort zone and think creatively

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Topic Tally

Young people take an active role in meetings about their lives with Topic Tally.

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Tried & Tested Recipe Book

Invite people to contribute simple recipes to make a book together.

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Unwrap Your Potential

Unwrap Your Potential is a tool to help volunteer coordinators during the early stages of recruiting a new volunteer.

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Visual Voice

Customisable activity sheets which don't require any writing

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Wheel of priorities

This tool is good for deciding what to focus on.

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Word Play

Word Play Uses Origami to Enable Young People to make, share & exchange ideas with others.

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You suggested, we tried

to make visible what people have suggested, what you have done in response, and to collect feedback

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