Invisible Workload Exposure for Team Dynamics

Invisible Workload Exposure for Team Dynamics

This exercise highlights the often-overlooked tasks that individuals perform within a team. By exposing these invisible contributions, the group gains insight into workload imbalances, which can le...

The 5-Minute Branding Challenge

The 5-Minute Branding Challenge

This exercise challenges delegates to think creatively and collaboratively under time pressure, developing branding concepts for a fictional product. It enhances their ability to generate ideas qui...

Creative Pattern Puzzle Challenge for Teambuilding

Creative Pattern Puzzle Challenge for Teambuilding

The Creative Pattern Puzzle Challenge is designed to hone skills in creativity, idea generation and management, project management, and team building. By engaging delegates in the manipulation of a...

Sprint Methodology: Product Development Exercise

Sprint Methodology: Product Development Exercise

The purpose of this project management exercise is to simulate a real-world product development and marketing scenario, focusing on eco-friendly innovation. It is designed to enhance delegates’ und...

The AI Art Gallery Challenge: Generative AI Exercises

The AI Art Gallery Challenge: Generative AI Exercises

The advent of generative AI tools for image creation offers powerful new ways to enhance human creativity and produce visual content. Beyond their obvious potential for generating images or art, th...

The House of Ropes Team Building Exercise

The House of Ropes Team Building Exercise

This fun team building activity focuses on engaging team members in a creative and problem-solving environment, emphasising effective communication and planning. Teams will work together to create ...

Powerful Strategic Planning Exercises to Include in Your Courses

Powerful Strategic Planning Exercises to Include in Your Courses

Strategic planning exercises help to re-energise your team and set them on the path of growth. It can inspire teams in any business, boost energy and moral and give a sense of direction to where th...

The Empathy Expedition: Leadership and Change Management Game

The Empathy Expedition: Leadership and Change Management Game

The Empathy Expedition is a dynamic and game-like roleplay exercise designed to develop emotional intelligence, leadership, and change management skills in an engaging and entertaining way. Partici...

Student Group Maker for Teachers: How to Use Group Layouts

Student Group Maker for Teachers: How to Use Group Layouts

Suppose you want to run an exercise in your course and want to divide your class into groups of 4. That is rather straight forward to do for small groups. Now, suppose you want to run another exe...

Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise

Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise

This is a useful exercise in demonstrating the difference between Agile and traditional development environments such as waterfall. It can also help explore concepts such as silo mentality, where e...

Spot the Fake News Exercise

Spot the Fake News Exercise

The advent of “Fake News” means that we are currently going through a major phase in history. Fake news has come to dominate the news, literally. It is sometimes amusing, but most often frightening...

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...

A Variation of Chinese Whisper Listening Exercise

A Variation of Chinese Whisper Listening Exercise

This is an interesting variation of the infamous Chinese Whisper exercise. In this variation, some volunteers leave the room and then be brought back in, rather than just whispering a sentence in t...

Active Listening Skills Roleplay

Active Listening Skills Roleplay

This is a highly educational and entertaining exercise on asking open questions. Open questions lead to more information while closed questions lead to a yes/no answer. Open questions are usually m...

Team Building Exercise: Leaky Pipes

Team Building Exercise: Leaky Pipes

This is a classic exercise on team building. It is fun to participate in this exercise and yet it is quite powerful in bringing a team together while teaching communication, leadership and problem ...

Board Games for Team Building and Icebreakers

Board Games for Team Building and Icebreakers

The purpose of icebreakers is to bring people together, familiarise them with each other, put them into the zone and basically break the ice as the name suggests. The purpose of team building activ...

Learn Scrum with an Exercise on Agile Project Management

Learn Scrum with an Exercise on Agile Project Management

Agile project management was popularised by the tech industry and has its roots in Japanese companies such as Toyota, Honda and Fuji. There are many who think agile development can lead to efficien...

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 ...