STAR Technique Simulation for Interview Skills

STAR Technique Simulation for Interview Skills

This exercise teaches delegates how to effectively use the STAR technique to answer behavioural interview questions. It focuses on improving their ability to provide structured, concise, and releva...

What Does This Picture Say About Your Company

What Does This Picture Say About Your Company

This is a powerful exercise that can help managers to understand what their team thinks of the organisation's structure. Such structures are used by companies in order to communicate their vision w...

Team Self-Reflection Exercise

Team Self-Reflection Exercise

Certain behaviours in a team can affect the trust between the team members and if not addressed properly will have dire consequences. It is essential for a team to self-reflect and to evaluate its ...

Eliminate Wrong Beliefs: Turn Should to Could

Eliminate Wrong Beliefs: Turn Should to Could

This exercise is designed to make the coachee think about potential liming views and beliefs. Through a systematic step by step process, you first help the coachee see what these beliefs are and th...

Positive Affirmations: Turn Negative into Positive

Positive Affirmations: Turn Negative into Positive

We are what we repeatedly do. We are also what we repeatedly think. If you think about something 200 times a day, you come to believe it to be true. If you think you are poor, unhealthy, socially u...

Evaluate Your Yesterday

Evaluate Your Yesterday

This is a powerful exercise that helps delegates see if they have been efficient as far as their own goals and ambitions are concerned. Sometimes, people need a reminder that they could be getting ...

Making Small Talk Exercise: Ask Me a Question

Making Small Talk Exercise: Ask Me a Question

This activity can be used for coaching skills or making conversations. The basic principle behind the activity is simple and the aim is to provide an easy structure to follow. Use this activity whe...

Goal Setting Exercise: Role Models

Goal Setting Exercise: Role Models

This exercise is ideal to explore role models and the importance and significant of having one. Instead of trying to explain directly how useful role models are, the exercise takes an indirect appr...

Feedback Exercise: Positive Affirmations

Feedback Exercise: Positive Affirmations

This uplifting and extremely positive exercise is suitable for a group of people who know each other well. The exercise helps delegates appreciate and reinforce each other’s positive traits. It is ...

Accountability Exercise: Take One from the Jar

Accountability Exercise: Take One from the Jar

While managing a team you may give a series of tasks to various team members. Each time you delegate a task, you expect a member to perform and deliver results. This leads to the concept of account...

Goal Setting Exercise: Standing Ovation

Goal Setting Exercise: Standing Ovation

Fast forward to an imaginary future. You are receiving a standing ovation. The applause does not seem to stop. People admire you and your achievement. You are the centre of attention at this moment...

Giving Feedback Exercise: Avoid Destructive Feedback

Giving Feedback Exercise: Avoid Destructive Feedback

When first presented with new ideas, many seem to be quick to highlight the potential problems with the idea rather than focusing on its potential. This attitude often leads to destructive criticis...

Giving Feedback Exercise: Power of Positive Feedback

Giving Feedback Exercise: Power of Positive Feedback

Positive feedback can have a dramatic effect. In this exercise, delegates will learn to appreciate the power of positive feedback, however small, when it is provided repeatedly during the course of...

Giving Feedback Exercise: If I Had a Different Job

Giving Feedback Exercise: If I Had a Different Job

This is a simple yet powerful exercise in getting people to share their perception about others. Sometimes seeing the world from another person’s point of view can have a significant benefit for us...

Team Building Exercise: Shared Problem Solving

Team Building Exercise: Shared Problem Solving

This activity allows people to help each other anonymously. Sometimes we may feel stuck or wonder what we could do to improve our behaviour or skills. We may however not feel comfortable to directl...

Team Building Exercise: Someone is a...

Team Building Exercise: Someone is a...

This is a suitable exercise for getting people in a team to express their feelings about each other but in a very indirect and controlled way. It also gives delegates a chance to see how others thi...

Communication Exercise: Do You Trust Others?

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. ...

Motivation Exercise: Look Back From the Future

Motivation Exercise: Look Back From the Future

Being a good person or a leader requires a good vision, persistence, definite plans and an ability to reflect on your current state so you can see what you need to do next to get there. This exerci...