Creativity Exercise: What is This For?
This creativity exercise is great in getting people to think how an uncommon designed object is used. The exercise can be used in two ways: Option 1. Delegates aim to find the primary function of...
Creativity Exercise: Alternative Applications
You can use this generic creativity exercise to get people think of unusual solutions to problems. The idea of the exercise is to force delegates to think about alternatives and then compare their ...
Icebreaker: What Do You Do When You Are Not Working?
Use this icebreaker to help people get to know each other more. It provides a structured approach so that the most is gained from the introductions in a short amount of time.
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.
Brainstorming Exercise: Kill Negative Mentality in Meetings
This exercise helps delegates learn how to avoid negative mentality in meetings. When confronted with a new idea, most people think of problems first. They first consider how the idea doesn’t work ...
Icebreaker: What Are You Good At?
This is an icebreaker that helps delegates to become more familiar with each other. The aim is to systematically share information with a partner to maximise information transfer in a given time.
Team Building Exercise: Don’t Spill the Water
This is an exercise similar to the popular team building exercise on handling toxic waste. The major difference here is that participants need to handle a glass of water and don’t spill it while ca...
Use Random Stimuli to Boost Creativity
A great way to increase creativity is to use random stimuli. Random thoughts can lead to new associations which in turn can help the group to explore new parts of a search space not considered befo...
Teamwork Exercise: Sort the Numbered Plates
In this team building exercise, delegates learn to work together to complete a seemingly simple task. However, teams can always get better results if they plan ahead, assign leaders, coordinate the...
Pluses, Potentials and Concerns
This is a decision making exercise that allows you to choose the best ideas from a set of ideas. Since each idea is considered in detail, this technique is more useful when you can focus enough on ...
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. ...
Team Building Exercise: Touch the Tennis Ball Once
This is a fantastic exercise in getting a group practice working together, coordinating their activities and learning to work more efficiently. Delegates must review their performance and think of ...
Decision Making: The NAF Technique
A particularly useful technique in brainstorming and decision making is the NAF technique. The acronym stands for New, Appeal and Feasibility. It is basically a simple way to score ideas to see if ...
Art Exercise: Cooperative Sculpture
This exercise helps delegates work together to create a sculpture out of clay. It is ideal for classes on ceramics hand building with clay but it can also be used for a fun team building activity. ...
Active Listening Exercise: Listen Carefully and Contribute
Active listening is a critical communication skill and it is important to know how to do it. This exercise has been designed in such a way that encourages delegates to pay their utmost attention wh...
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...
Magic Trick: Show off Your Telepathic Powers
This exercise is ideal for teams with new additions to them. Sometimes it takes a while for teams to get used to their new members and the same is true for the new addition. Joining an already exis...
Teambuilding Exercise: Handle Toxic Waste
In this team building exercise, the group must work together to handle toxic waste symbolised by an object. Many areas can be explored in this exercise including leadership, problem solving, teamwo...
