Cooperation Exercise: Wear a Bandana

Cooperation Exercise: Wear a Bandana

This is a fun and entertaining team training exercise that helps you cover many topics such as team coordination, self-organisation, leadership, teamwork and cooperative behaviour while achieving a...

Creativity Exercise: Stylish Logos

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...

Problem Solving Exercise: Look at the Problem from a Kid’s Point of View

Problem Solving Exercise: Look at the Problem from a Kid’s Point of View

A particularly useful problem solving technique is to see a given problem from the point of view of a 10 year old. This view point usually helps to simplify both problems and solutions and as a res...

Team Building Exercise: You Can’t Touch My Palm

Team Building Exercise: You Can’t Touch My Palm

This is a fun activity that requires concentration and focus. It is ideal as a team building exercise or as an icebreaker to make people feel more comfortable with each other.

Illustration Exercise: Collective Masterpiece

Illustration Exercise: Collective Masterpiece

Use this exercise to get a group of people work on a common illustration exercise. This can be used as an icebreaker to make the group feel more comfortable with each other and also assess the comp...

Brainstorming Exercise: Display Your Ideas

Brainstorming Exercise: Display Your Ideas

Purpose In this brainstorming exercise delegates learn to come up with ideas separately and then together as a large group. The brainstorming technique helps those who are more comfortable in sma...

Team Building Exercise: Mexican Wave

Team Building Exercise: Mexican Wave

This exercise is a great energizer. It is highly active and best performed outdoors. At first, this exercise may sound bizarre but people usually get used to it quickly. It can be used as teambuild...

Icebreaker: Art Class Warm Up

Icebreaker: Art Class Warm Up

This icebreaker is ideal for art classes on various topics such as illustration, drawing and painting. Suppose you want your new delegates to get to know each other better while at the same time ga...

Time Management Exercise: Monitor Your Perfectionism

Time Management Exercise: Monitor Your Perfectionism

This is a quick exercise that helps illustrate that we don’t need to be perfect all the time. Aiming for perfection can cost a lot of time and is often counter-productive. Research shows that major...

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

Purpose Sometimes a little action can lead to a lot of change as the actions are amplified. This exercise helps delegates see this effect in a symbolic exercise on gestures on what is famously kn...

Attention and Focus Exercise: Touch 9 Cones

Attention and Focus Exercise: Touch 9 Cones

This is a physical exercise ideal for physical training as well as concentration and focus. This exercise touches on many areas with the aim to make an individual more agile and precise while under...

Memory Exercise: Andy Says…

Memory Exercise: Andy Says…

This exercise helps delegates to memorise physical moves and also improve reaction times when a command is heard. The basic concept is very simple and can be easily applied to a variety of exercise...

Clock Buddies: Find Your Number 7 Partner

Clock Buddies: Find Your Number 7 Partner

Suppose you want to pair up your delegates. The usual way is that you just give a simple instruction such as “partner with the person on your left”. What if in another exercise you want to pair the...

Change Management: Concentrate on Change to Survive

Change Management: Concentrate on Change to Survive

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of focusing and concentration when they are in a fast changing environment.

Feedback Exercise: Analyse People’s Lives

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

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...

Memory Exercise: Lists versus Images

Memory Exercise: Lists versus Images

We all deal with lists almost on a daily basis. However, as we all have discovered, lists can be difficult to memorise and remember. Research shows that we have significant problems remembering a l...

Creativity Exercise: What Is That!?

Creativity Exercise: What Is That!?

This is powerful exercise in helping people to think out of the box and become more creative. The setup primes people to think creatively about everyday objects and design their own version. This h...