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Decision Making
| Concentration Exercise: Focus on a Single Thought |
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::  :: Exercises, Productivity, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Stress Management, Report Writing
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The digital age has made it possible to multi-task. Multi-tasking increases productivity because you can do more in a given time. But can you? With certain activities, such as driving while listening to an audio book, this is highly productive. With some activities, you may easily end up producing sub-standard quality or finish none at all.
Like everything, if used excessively, it can actually reduce productivity. People who multi-task too much may start to suffer from lack of concentration. For example, you may sit behind a computer and decide to write a report. However, lots of unrelated ideas about you latest emails, browsing, conversations or daily activities can pop up in your mind that constantly slow you down.
It pays to practice concentration, so that when necessary you can focus as if nothing else matters and give a task your 100% effort.
It is famously known that if you want to increase your productivity and quality of your life to 100%, give 100% to every little thing you do. In other words, when you write a report, only think about writing it and when you are on holiday, only think of things you can do to have fun and not about work you left behind, or work that you will have to do when you get back.
This activity contains a series of exercises on increasing concentration. Depending on your course and delegates, you can initiate them during the course or provide them as ideas for post course exercises.
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| Brainstorming Exercise: Relocation |
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::  :: Exercises, Communication Skills, Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Body Language, Emotional Intelligence
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You can use this exercise to get a group of people practice brainstorming and participate in constructive discussions. Delegates will go through a case study which can be applicable to just about anyone while still creating complex challenges. This exercise is also flexible in the choice of brainstorming method used or alternatively you can leave it to the delegates to decide. For example, you can use this exercise after explaining a particular brainstorming method such as mind mapping, six hats, Delphi method, etc., and then evaluate the performance of the delegates based on what you have discussed in the course. This exercise is ideal if all delegates are from the same organisation, though you can also use it when delegates are not from the same place.
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| Creativity Exercise: Expand and Shrink |
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:: :: Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving
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When engaged in a brainstorming session on productivity, you want to maximise your search efficiency in order to systematically explore all areas and get the best from the time spend on the problem. A great way to do this is to expand and shrink the problem so you can come up with new ideas, get rid of the bad ideas and move forward.
Effectively, you can use the following 5 techniques:
- Expand. Expand the problem by thinking of new associations on all directions.
- Reduce. Reduce the scope.
- Reverse. Come up with something opposite to explore new avenues.
- Eliminate. Remove those ideas that don’t make any sense to reduce your search space and increase the efficiency of your brainstorming. After all, you can’t spend forever on this topic so you need to setup boundaries.
The following exercise helps the delegates to use this method.
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| Team Building Exercises: What Would You Do If...? |
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::  :: Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Decision Making
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Knowing how other people respond in different situations can be extremely educational. Sometimes we use a particular solution in response to a situation because that’s the only way we have seen it done. A lot of these responses are acquired in our childhood, from school or our environment. However, as we all know there is more than one way to handle a situation and a great way to learn it is to simply ask others how they have done it before and then examine it in more detail in a controlled environment.
This exercise helps the delegates to find new solutions for a number of common scenarios encountered in everyday life.
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