Positive Appreciation, Affirmation and Praise
In this activity, a group of people get to acknowledge each other’s actions and appreciate the impact of such actions on their own lives. People tend to avoid praising despite the fact that it is i...
In Chapter 14 of Focused Determination, a motivational technique is presented which we call “Weekly Slogans”. These are inspiring quotes or “Slogans” that you choose for personal motivation. As des...
Praise Yourself: What Is Good about You?
In many social environments, boasting about ourselves is usually frowned on. It is often impolite to keep going on about our own achievements and show off our skills, processions and knowledge. Thi...
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...
Self-Esteem Exercise: Turn Negative to Positive
This is a simple yet powerful exercise that helps delegates discover something positive in every experience. The structure of the exercise is actually quite simple yet the power resides in asking a...
Self-Esteem Exercise: Appreciate What You Have
This thought-provoking exercise helps delegates appreciate what they already have. Most people, in their quest to achieve more experience more and possess more forget what they have already achieve...
Goal Setting Exercise: I Admire People Who…
This exercise helps delegates realise what values they are impressed with the most, so that they can then relate these values back to themselves.
Goal Setting Exercise: I Want to Be – I Want to Do
This powerful exercise is ideal for motivating people and helping them identify their true goals in life. Most people are aware of only a few objectives and desires. For the rest of, they don’t thi...
Motivational Exercise: Turning a Bad Experience to a Good One
Use this exercise to motivate people and help them to view an experience differently. This exercise is fairly simple to execute and yet quite effective. The essence of the exercise is to show that ...
How to Avoid Using Poor Motivational Posters
It has become fashionable to place motivational posters on the walls in the companies. Depending on the nature of the organisation, this can be seen in two ways; a propaganda campaign by the manage...
Six Proven Techniques to Boost Your Mental Powers
As a successful trainer, you must be able to perform at your best every time you provide a training course. Your aim is not only to teach a given subject to delegates, but to also entertain them an...
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...
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...
How to Avoid Bad Reflective Questions
Some questions are meant to increase our awareness about where we are and encourage us to learn from our experience. However, the way a question is formulated can make a huge difference in what you...
Icebreaker: Who Do You Like to Have Dinner With?
This is a very effective yet simple icebreaker. Delegates get to choose a contemporary or historical figure and share their choice with the class. These choices will help everyone to get to know ea...
How to Become a Master Trainer by Learning from Master Gamers
Imagine delivering a training course to delegates who are half sleep. Is there any point in carrying on? Sure enough, you still get paid for the current session; but surely that’s not your only aim...
Motivation Exercise: The Power of Colours
Colour can change the mood. In this exercise you will immerse the delegates in various colours and encourage them to see the effect of each colour on their mood. You can then discuss various uses o...
Motivation Exercise: What Word Describes You the Most?
In this exercise, delegates are forced to choose one word that described them best. The process they go through to find this one word helps them to better understand their own likes and dislikes as...
