Creative Story Making with Dice Exercise
This exercise enhances creativity, quick thinking and storytelling skills by challenging delegates to create a coherent narrative using random symbols or images rolled from dice. It encourages spon...
Six-Word Stories: A Creative Writing Exercise
This exercise is designed to cultivate delegates’ creativity, emotional intelligence, and reflective thinking through the challenge of expressing experiences, emotions, or insights in just six word...
The AI Art Gallery Challenge: Generative AI Exercises
The advent of generative AI tools for image creation offers powerful new ways to enhance human creativity and produce visual content. Beyond their obvious potential for generating images or art, th...
Writing Creative Motivational Quotes Exercise
Inspire creativity and enhance soft skills by teaching delegates to craft original motivational quotes. We are used to reading and getting inspired by motivational quotes from the great thinkers or...
Icebreakers for Online and Virtual Training Courses
In today’s digital era, where virtual meetings and training sessions have become the norm, the role of icebreakers has never been more critical. These activities are the cornerstone of any successf...
The advent of “Fake News” means that we are currently going through a major phase in history. Fake news has come to dominate the news, literally. It is sometimes amusing, but most often frightening...
This classic game was popularised in 80s. It is fun to play and helps to generate a lot of positives and negatives for a given topic. Delegates go through a series of statements that start with ‘fo...
This is a fun exercise focusing on word play where the delegates need to converge on a common word based on previously suggested words. When convergence happens, it is immensely enjoyable. The pair...
Boost Creativity Using the 6-Step Problem Solving Technique
In the 21st century world, we often need to be creative when solving problems especially with the constant need to stand out in today’s crowded markets. Being creative is therefore a very useful sk...
Teamwork Exercise: Broadcast News
This is an entertaining and educational activity designed to test a group of people on their creativity as well as teamwork. The task involves producing a video. However, the video production is on...
Creative Writing Exercise: The Last Straw
In this creative writing exercise delegates change a given instruction to a funny statement that is deemed more effective. The humour helps to increase the likelihood of the instruction being follo...
Icebreaker: This Reminds Me of…
This exercise helps with creative storytelling and impromptu delivery. It can also be used as an icebreaker to help delegates learn about each other. The choice of objects dictates what kinds of ar...
Google Ngram: Ever Wondered When a Given Word Became Popular?
Modern tools can provide a great insight on how certain terms have been used in the past. With the advent of search engines and in particular the ever more useful tools released by Google we can ex...
Story Design Exercise: The Alternative
In this exercise delegates practice designing a story. Story design can be quite challenging so this exercise helps to break it up to a simpler task by giving delegates a helpful starting point. Yo...
Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image
Use this exercise to get the delegates design a story based on a single image. The choice of these images can greatly influence the exercise, so use this much like a template to craft a training ex...
Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation
This is powerful exercise in creative writing where delegates get to write a phone conversation based on certain limiting criteria. The structured approach to writing helps to make the task more cr...
Communication Exercise: First Person but Few “I”s
Imagine a person who talks about himself all the time. The conversation is full of “I”, “me”, “my” and they constantly talk about what happens in their lives. Such people don’t tend to last long as...
Body Language Exercise: Write the Gestures
The aim of this exercise is to get the delegates think about body language and gestures and observe how such signals can be instrumental while communicating. The training exercise illustrates the i...
