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...
How to Avoid Bad Training Exercises
Many trainers are always in search of the next best exercise for their courses. On this site alone we have hundreds of exercises that you could choose from. You may even decide to design your own; ...
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...
Chocolate Packaging Design Competition Exercise
Imagine walking into a supermarket and going to the isle dedicated to sweets and chocolates. Here, you are likely to find a section with a variety of block chocolate bars. These are often presented...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Brainstorming Exercise: Design Shoes
This is an entertaining and educational exercise. It helps to unleash people’s creativity, bring them together and get them to cooperate on a common task and solve problems. In this exercise, the m...
Creativity Exercise: Stylish Logos
This is a feel-good training exercise that gets everyone involved in a creative activity. In this exercise, delegates get to create a variety of illustrations or produce crafts which resemble the l...
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...
Team Building Exercise: Iterative Collaboration
This three-part exercise focuses on collaboration and team building. It highlights the importance of communication and teamwork in groups. The three parts of the activity incrementally add more par...
Team Building Activities for Kids: My Dream T-Shirt
Purpose This exercise is suitable for children as it allows them to express themselves artistically and reveal significant character traits which are important in team building. They will get to ...
