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Decision Making

Problem Solving Exercise: Analogies

:: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving

In this exercises delegates learn to use analogies to find novel solutions to problems. Specific analogies are examined and mapped to a problem domain for inspiration of similar unique solutions.

Creativity Exercise: Expand and Shrink

:: Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving

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.

Problem Solving Exercise: Brainstorm or Expert

:: Games, Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving

This exercise encourages creativity and helps delegates to come up with a larger variety of solutions. The activity also enables participants to evaluate and compare the influence and effect of using expert views in solving problems. This activity is suitable for groups of people who have access to Internet and phone during the training session.

Problem Solving Exercise: Quick Thinking

:: Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving

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.

Decision Making Exercise: Ups and Downs

:: Exercises, Team Building , Decision Making

This activity encourages delegates to think back to their personal experiences in life and share some of their important decisions with their team mates.

Externalising Internal Conflicts Exercise

:: Conflict Management, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Decision Making

This activity helps the delegates to resolve their internal conflicts by treating them as external conflicts. Internal conflicts are those conflicts between and you and yourself. External conflicts are those between you and others. The exercises help participants to view and resolve such conflicts in a systematic way.

Team Building Exercise: The Punch Line

:: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Decision Making

This is a creative and energizing exercise which encourages thinking on the spot and also allows them to compete with each other. Delegate must complete a story based on a number of given punch lines in a competitive environment.

Team Building Exercises: What Would You Do If...?

:: Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Decision Making

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.

Decision Making Exercise: The Delphi Method

:: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building , Communication Skills, Decision Making

This exercise can be used to demonstrate the Delphi method of decision making and forecasting to the delegates. It is an excellent technique to use in meetings where everyone has to voice their opinion and the group wants to make a decision based on the opinion of all the experts present. The method has a systematic feedback and encourages independent votes irrespective of other voter’s seniority or authority. The Delphi method was originally developed in the cold war to estimate the dangers of nuclear war.

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