Communication Skills

In this exercise, delegates get to examine their past and represent it in a visually exciting way. It encourages individuals to open up and share what they think of their most important experiences in life. Ideally, it is better to carry out this exercise after other exercises or ice breakers so that delegates would have become more familiar with each other before participating in this exercise.

This is a fun exercise which demonstrates the importance of communication and feedback in the success of a team.

In this exercise, delegates examine stereotypes and understand the implications of stereotyping. It helps them to discover on their own that stereotyping is highly subjective.

The purpose of this fun activity is to introduce something new about other delegates. It is ideal to be used at the beginning of a course as an icebreaker. It is especially effective for a group of people who don’t know each other very well.

By looking closer at their main tasks and goals as a team, this exercise enables delegates to examine and prioritise their team’s efficiency and direction towards its objectives. This activity is most suitable for smaller groups of people who usually work as part of a team.

This simple exercise encourages delegates to think about their best qualities and those habits or behaviours that they like to improve on or get rid of. Recognising and accepting both personal qualities and weaknesses publicly increases participant’s self confidence and also encourages them to improve aspects of their behaviour that they are not happy with.

This interesting exercise often draws in a lot of laughter and therefore can be used as an energiser after a long training session. The activity encourages delegates to get creative and to use their imaginations to come up with answers.

This is an interactive exercise which is ideal for groups of delegates who don’t know each other and have never met before. It demonstrates our attention to details or lack of it and shows how much information can be gathered about another person in a short space of time.

This exercise has been designed for people who work in the same team. It is very effective in discovering strengths and weaknesses of teams, in particular those of newly formed teams. This activity allows team members to share their views on positive and negative aspects of their team and therefore seek ways to improve them.

This humorous activity encourages delegates to use unusual sentences for greetings. This exercise aims to demonstrate the effect of honest and genuine greetings which can make communication more effective and helps to build better relationships.

This is a fun activity which can be used to demonstrate the importance of non- verbal communication as well as a good energiser. This exercise is most suited to bigger groups of delegates but can be used in any group size.

This activity encourages solution generation by looking at the problem from a different prospective. By changing the way we describe a problem we can come up with ideas to fix it. This exercise works best with a group of delegates who normally work together or belong to the same organisation.

This is a fun activity which encourages honest communication between delegates. By sharing their difficult, frustrating or embarrassing moments at work, delegates will help each other in recognising that their problems are similar to those around them and helps to give them a new prospective on work issues.

Use this exercise to share personality traits. This activity helps delegates to see sometimes difficult situations from other people’s point of view and change the way they think about difficult circumstances.

This is a fun activity which encourages delegates to become creative with their ideas and share them with others. They will learn the value of quick thinking and quick judgement since sometimes you may need to rely on gut instincts to cut your search space and save time looking for solutions. If the delegates know each other or are from the same organisation, a common problem can be chosen as the main topic which helps them to use this exercise to brainstorming the problem.