Body Language Exercise: Observe People in Everyday Situations
Use this body language exercise at the beginning of a session before covering non-verbal communication. The aim is to find out how much delegates already know about this topic and effectively prepa...
Management Exercise: Limiting Instructions Reduces Creativity
This training exercise helps to emphasise the importance of giving open-ended instructions. Research shows that when the instructions are limiting or force a person or a group to consider only a su...
Body Language Exercise: How to Slow Down Your Fast Talking Habit
Some people are fast talkers. They like to talk with the same speed as they think. In the process fast talking people end up mumbling a lot, shortening sentences, rounding off parts and skipping wo...
Language Exercise: Order from Subway
This is an entertaining and educational exercise for teaching languages. It sets the context for one of the most useful and essential needs when using a new language; ordering food. While the exerc...
Communication Exercise: Eliminate Negative Talk
Negativity is contagious. It’s all too easy to complain about everything that goes wrong and this can quickly spread to others. Fortunately there is a simple trick that can be used to eliminate neg...
Leadership Exercise: Which Word is Common
This is an entertaining exercise encouraging delegates to think on the spot, make decisions and self-organise to complete a task. It is ideal for teambuilding and leadership courses to show the val...
Negotiation Exercise: Compete and Collaborate Simultaneously
This exercise is ideal for team building and negotiation where delegates learn to share their resources and also negotiate with each other in a competitive environment. They will learn that coopera...
Assertiveness Exercise: Group Communication Roleplay
This exercise helps delegates to practice communicating assertively. Assertive communication as opposed to passive or aggressive communication is usually the best way to handle aggressive communica...
Team Building Exercise: Make the Tallest Tower
In this exercise, delegates practice working together towards a common goal; making the tallest free standing tower given simple materials. The teambuilding game is competitive and requires creativ...
The Secret to a Successful Teambuilding is Constructive Collaboration
Research carried out on many teams in large corporations show that they use suboptimal solutions when dealing with conflicts in teams. Every time there is a conflict in the team, they respond in a ...
Feedback Exercise: Analyse People’s Lives
This exercise helps delegates to better understand each other and also gives them an opportunity to provide anonymous feedback. It is a rather simple exercise though can be quite revealing as peopl...
Team Building Exercise: Make a Shape
This is a physical team buiding exercise that encourages self-organisation within a team when confronted with a challenge. You can test the group to see how quickly they can come up with a self-ass...
Feedback Exercise: Share Your Thoughts
The purpose of this team building activity is to encourage delegates to share their feelings about the organisation they are in. Using a systematic approach, delegates get to talk about their posit...
Formulate Your Sentences Using Effective Assertiveness Skills
Being assertive is not just about expressing your rights; it is also about increasing the efficiency of your communication with others. There are a number of ways you can express yourself to achiev...
Communication Exercise: Do You Trust Others?
We all have different levels of trust in different situations. Sometimes the variation is not much and sometimes it is too high. We seem to be defensive and on guard while others feel comfortable. ...
Emotional Intelligence Exercise: How to Control Crowd Contagion
The purpose of this exercise is to help delegates understand the concept of crowd contagion. This is particularly applicable to business meetings where emotional comments can easily lead to a subop...
Communication Skills Exercise: It’s All About Me!
The aim of this exercise is to help participants realise how their conversations are often about themselves and regardless to other people involved. This is a useful activity to encourage active li...
Acting Exercise: Act Out The Roles
In this exercise, participants learn how to act or roleplay certain roles. Acting is a very useful skill. It can greatly help people to place themselves in position of others and learn to think lik...
