Acting and Improvisation Exercises
Practicing improvisation exercises can greatly help with communication skills and help reduce fear of being on stage. In a controlled environment of a class, you can easily get delegates to practic...
Think Music, Chess and Sports: Train Yourself to Train Others Better
Being a good trainer requires a set of skills. Like any other skill, you need to practice in order to get better at this skill. This is quite different from being good at the topic you are teaching...
It is just after lunch and you are about to teach a new theory to your delegates. Ideally you should not cover this after lunch but you have had no choice. You notice that delegates are falling sle...
Teamwork Exercise: Broadcast News
This is an entertaining and educational activity designed to test a group of people on their creativity as well as teamwork. The task involves producing a video. However, the video production is on...
Public Speaking Exercise: Impromptu Story Telling
This exercise allows delegates to practice speaking in public or in front of a group without the pressure associated with public speaking. The pace of the exercise is very fast and hence delegates ...
Body Language Exercise: Observe People in Everyday Situations
Use this body language exercise at the beginning of a session before covering non-verbal communication. The aim is to find out how much delegates already know about this topic and effectively prepa...
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...
If Your Training is Not Working, You are Not Doing This One Thing
In a Customer Service Skills course: The trainer starts by explaining the principles of customer service. He gets excited and is carried away by explaining more. Delegates meanwhile are quietly lis...
Public Speaking Exercise: How to Appear Confident by Adjusting Your Body Language
Many people find public speaking daunting. They get butterflies in stomach, feel nervous and sometimes simply refuse to give a public presentation when they can get away with it. It doesn’t have to...
To reduce learner passivity and increase interaction and reflection, a technique known as the “Three Minutes Pause” is very useful. The idea is that after covering a topic or a complex concept, you...
Do You Make These 5 Training Mistakes When Delivering a Course
Some mistakes are small and irrelevant while some have bigger but yet manageable consequences. There are however some mistakes that can bring your entire training career down. These are often mista...
10 Tips for Becoming an Interesting Trainer
No one can argue that being an interesting trainer is a quality that will almost always guarantee successful training sessions. No one wants to spend a training day listening to a boring trainer. S...
8 Habits of Highly Effective Trainers
What is the secret to becoming a successful trainer? What makes a trainer stand out from the competition? Have you ever attended a course that you were so impressed by the trainer that you thought ...
Sales Exercise: Sales Pitch With FAB
In this exercise, delegates practice delivering a quick sales pitch. The structure of the pitch is based on the FAB methodology; Features, Advantages and Benefits. Most people miss the advantage an...
Creativity and Sales Exercise: Sell a Lot of Stuff
This is a creativity exercise in a form of a template that you can customise in a variety ways. The format is that the group comes into possession of a large number of a certain used old product. T...
Presentation Skills Exercise: Tell a Story
Good presentation skills and public speaking require multitude of skills; creativity, storytelling, creative slide design, engaging attitude, emotional content, effective non-verbal gestures and so...
Effective Teaching Methods: One-Way Teaching
Instructional methods can be divided into one-way and two-way methods. In the one-way method, the direction of the information is from the instructor to the audience. In the two-way method, informa...
Presentation Skills: Systematic Note Taking
This is another interactive pause exercise used during a lecture or talk to help the participants to quickly go over the content they have just been thought and record the key points. These kinds o...
