Creative Constraints Problem Solving Exercise
This exercise pushes delegates to find innovative solutions to common problems by working within strict, arbitrary constraints. The setup leads to creative problem-solving and builds emotional resi...
30 Circles Divergent Thinking Creativity Exercise
This exercise is designed to stimulate creative thinking and encourage divergent ideas. It helps delegates generate ideas quickly, without overthinking or self-censoring, which is essential in brea...
The 5-Minute Branding Challenge
This exercise challenges delegates to think creatively and collaboratively under time pressure, developing branding concepts for a fictional product. It enhances their ability to generate ideas qui...
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...
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...
Convergent vs Divergent Thinking Exercise
A useful distinction in thinking process was suggested by Joy Paul Guilford in 1967. Guilford coined convergent thinking in contrast with divergent thinking. With convergent thinking, you are tryin...
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...
How to Practice Paying Attention to Detail
One of the biggest and perhaps saddest trends in our era is that attention spans are shrinking. It is primarily fuelled by the explosion of online content, rise of social media and the ever-increas...
Diamond Ranking for Decision Making
When making decisions, you often need to choose between a series of options. When told to rank options, people sometimes want to give the same rank to multiple options. In some cases, it might be m...
Creativity Exercise: Make a Monster
This is a template for a creativity exercise centred on making monsters. It can be used for kids and adults depending on how you bias it and setup the exercise. You can consider assigning the task ...
Marketing Exercise: Cross Sell Your Products
This exercise helps delegates to brainstorm how to cross sell products. It focuses on a random set of products so it is rather creative to see what marketing strategies delegates can come up with. ...
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...
Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story with Three Images
This exercise helps to test the creativity of delegates on their ability to make stories based on a series of images. Each delegate sees a series of images and needs to make an interesting story th...
Marketing Exercise: Learn from Good, Bad and Ugly Advertisements
This exercise helps to develop delegates’ observational skills on advertisement and marketing and also helps them design their own ads. It creates discussions on what works and what does not in des...
Creativity Exercise: What is This For?
This creativity exercise is great in getting people to think how an uncommon designed object is used. The exercise can be used in two ways: Option 1. Delegates aim to find the primary function of...
Creativity Exercise: Alternative Applications
You can use this generic creativity exercise to get people think of unusual solutions to problems. The idea of the exercise is to force delegates to think about alternatives and then compare their ...
Use Random Stimuli to Boost Creativity
A great way to increase creativity is to use random stimuli. Random thoughts can lead to new associations which in turn can help the group to explore new parts of a search space not considered befo...
Recap Exercise: Visualise What You Learned Today
Research has long shown that visualisation can lead to better recall and learning. As a trainer, you can exploit visualisation to your advantage. One area where visualisation is useful is when reca...
