Memory Pegging with Stories Exercise
This exercise helps delegates improve memory retention by using the memory pegging technique, where they associate unrelated words or concepts with vivid images or short stories. The goal is to cre...
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...
What Are the Basic Principles of Memory
This is a fantastic exercise in teaching a number of important topics related to memory and retention. The exercise is actually rather simple—going through a list of words and recalling what has be...
Train the Trainer Exercise: Review Learning
Use this exercise to help the delegates review what they have learned in the course. The aim is to make the review process entertaining and memorable. It is also designed to be competitive so that ...
Art Exercise: The Lost Artworks
This is an elaborate memory exercise that can be used for several purposes. You can use it to teach specific memory techniques in memorising pictures, names and words. You can use it to teach the ...
Answer Correctly or Get Eliminated
At the end of each training session, it is ideal to test delegate’s knowledge about the topics covered during the session. You can make the process more entertaining by making the test feel like a ...
Icebreaker: What Is Under My Thumb
This fun activity is suitable as an ice breaker. This is a simple randomisation exercise that you can use to get a group of people answer a number of random questions. You will need to write these ...
Communication Skills Exercise: Build an Identical Sculpture
This exercise helps delegates to practice communication skills. In particular it focuses on observation skills, how to describe something in simple yet meaningful ways and how to provide feedback. ...
Active Listening Exercise: As Mark Just Said
Most people are not good listeners. This is even more pronounced when people get excited about sharing their own views or thoughts and like to express them and share them with others quickly. The p...
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...
How to Increase Commitment After Delivering a Training Course
During a training course several topics are often covered. Each of these topics leads to a number of actions that will help improve delegates’ behaviour or skills in the future. However, many of th...
Memory Exercise: Recap on Lessons Covered So Far
This exercise helps to refresh delegates’ memory about what you just taught them. It encourages them to think about the training lessons covered so far and make a few statements about what they hav...
Communication Skills Exercise: Observe, Explain, Do
This activity helps delegates to improve their teamwork and communication and interpersonal skills while going through a specific task. The task is fairly simple. To succeed at their task, the team...
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...
Carousel and Graffiti Brainstorming
The following powerful techniques known as Carousel Brainstorming and Graffiti Brainstorming can be used to brainstorm, refresh learners’ minds about a particular topic or to brainstorm on a new co...
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.
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...
Attention to Detail Exercise: What Was in The Box?
The purpose of this exercise is to help delegates practice memorising and paying attention to detail. Repeated exercise can increase focus and help people to become more aware of their surroundings...
