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Problem Solving Exercise: With a Little Help From My Friends
Problem Solving Exercise: With a Little Help From My Friends
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving

This exercise aims to introduce an effective method for problem solving and brainstorming within teams. It demonstrates the efficiency of using other’s experiences and expertise in solving problems and dealing with challenging situations.

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Concentration Exercise: Focus on a Single Thought
Concentration Exercise: Focus on a Single Thought
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Productivity, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Stress Management, Report Writing

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
Brainstorming Exercise: Relocation
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Communication Skills, Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Body Language, Emotional Intelligence

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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Problem Solving Exercise: Analogies
Problem Solving Exercise: Analogies
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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Creativity Exercise: Expand and Shrink
Creativity Exercise: Expand and Shrink
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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Problem Solving Exercise: Brainstorm or Expert
Problem Solving Exercise: Brainstorm or Expert
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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Problem Solving Exercise: Quick Thinking
Problem Solving Exercise: Quick Thinking
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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Decision Making Exercise: Ups and Downs
Decision Making Exercise: Ups and Downs
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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Externalising Internal Conflicts Exercise
Externalising Internal Conflicts Exercise
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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Team Building Exercise: The Punch Line
Team Building Exercise: The Punch Line
:: Article Rating :: 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.

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

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Decision Making Exercise: The Delphi Method
Decision Making Exercise: The Delphi Method
:: Article Rating :: 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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