This exercise helps delegates to practice selling an object to an audience. It covers several key concepts:

• How to highlight USP (Unique Selling Points) in any given object
• How to increase the value of an object by giving it history
• How to convince a crowd that a product is worth the price you demand

You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.

This a simple and entertaining exercise which can be used as an ice breaker as well to make team members feel more comfortable with each other. It is rather physical and the casual intimacy can help to break the ice, though it may not be suitable for certain formal settings.

This is a simple yet challenging exercise which puts pressure on a group to solve a problem as the clock is ticking. To successfully survive the task, the group must learn to work together quickly and efficiently.

This is a fairly flexible exercise you can use to improve delegates’ creativity, decision making and team working skills. Effectively you get the groups to design a game in the given time and later evaluate the process they went through. You can use a number of variations to customise this exercise based on your needs.

This is a creative exercise which can be used to explore topics such as communication skills, leadership, problem solving decision making and perspective taking. Effectively, delegates must work together to sort a sequence of images by enquiring from each other and collectively decide on the best outcome.

This is a famous entertaining game were a player must guess the name written on a card by asking closed questions where the answers can be “yes” or “no”. The objective is to find the name as quickly as possible. Many variations can be used to bias the exercise based on your specific training needs. A variation of this exercise can be used to teach the importance of asking open questions as opposed to closed questions to maximise information transfer. See Variations for a guideline on this.

This exercise has become immortally famous by Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

This exercise is based on the famous sig degrees separation and is designed to encourage delegates to find more about each others. Hence, is it ideal for team building exercises and icebreakers where you want to make the group feel comfortable with each other as quickly as possible.

This is quick acting exercise usually used to get delegates to familiarise with space and movement. You can also use it as a fun energizer.

This is a fun and effective exercise especially for a group of delegates who don’t know each other or don’t normally work together. It provides a fun environment for training and puts some smiles on participant’s faces.

In this activity, participants engage in a fun and entertaining exercise. A person at the centre of a group attempts to guess the leader of others based on what people do. It requires attention to detail, quick decision making and observation of body language.

This is an energetic exercise that works best with large groups of people. It is ideally used to make people feel more comfortable with each other by getting them to participate in an activity and share an experience. It is quite easy to setup and does not take long to carry out.