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Communication Skills Exercise: Observe, Explain, Do

Communication Skills Exercise: Observe, Explain, Do
:: Article Rating :: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Large Group, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills, Memory

This activity helps delegates to improve their teamwork and communication skills while going through a specific task. The task is fairly simple. To succeed at their task, the team must be able to self-organise, communicate well, and work together to resolve issues. Optionally, if you have a large group, you can divide them to several teams where they can go through the exercise in parallel and at the end compare their performance.

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Group Problem Solving Exercise: Re-Zoom

Group Problem Solving Exercise: Re-Zoom
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Exercises for Kids, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Questioning Skills, Listening Skills, Memory

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.

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Team Building Exercise: Helium Stick

Team Building Exercise: Helium Stick
:: Article Rating :: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Problem Solving, Large Group, Goal Setting, Emotional Intelligence, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills

This simple yet powerful exercise helps the delegates to understand several concepts all at once; communication skills, cooperation, patience and how to manage small contributions to achieve an effective results with the correct balance.

This exercise is particularly suitable for team building courses and is remembered well by delegates well after the course due to the nature of the activity and its simplicity.

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Can You Make it with Dominos?

Can You Make it with Dominos?
:: Article Rating :: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Exercises for Kids, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills, Delegation Skills

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of feedback in communications and realize why the lack of it can be so frustrating for both sides. By working together towards a common goal, delegates will learn to be patient, pay attention to details and of course use feedback.

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Exercise: This is How You Should Make It

Exercise: This is How You Should Make It
:: Article Rating :: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Problem Solving, Giving Feedback, Questioning Skills, Listening Skills, Delegation Skills

In this creative exercise, participants get to understand the value of confirmations and feedback in communication. Sometimes instructors fail to observe, receive feedbacks and correct the procedure done by a different person under their instruction. This is also a good exercise in practicing questioning techniques, in particular open versus close questions. Of course, you can explore other questioning techniques with variations of this exercise.

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Perception Exercise: What am I Holding?

Perception Exercise: What am I Holding?
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Customer Services, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills

This activity highlights individual’s ability to recognise objects by hearing their visual characteristics and illustrates the importance of perception and attention to detail in gathering information.

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Communication Skills Exercise: Repeat after Me

Communication Skills Exercise: Repeat after Me
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Communication Skills, Customer Services, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills

This effective exercise helps the delegates to understand how critical it is to listen before they talk in conversations. Most people simply talk from their own point of view and pay little attention to the other. This exercise helps the delegates to understand the need and the mental shift they need to go through to become better listeners.

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Communication Exercise: Communication Barriers

Communication Exercise: Communication Barriers
:: Article Rating :: Leadership, Conflict Management, Exercises, Communication Skills, Listening Skills

Avoiding communication barriers is a necessity in today’s business world. Not only it is critical to identify if these barriers exist, but also how to remove them or reduce their effect. This activity enables delegates to explore new solutions in overcoming communication and listening barriers.

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Communication Exercise: Chinese Whisper

Communication Exercise: Chinese Whisper
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Communication Skills, Customer Services, Giving Feedback, Questioning Skills, Listening Skills

This exercise highlights the importance of confirming the information we receive from either our colleagues or clients. This activity is designed for groups of at least 8 delegates or more.

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Team Building Exercises: Silent Design

Team Building Exercises: Silent Design
:: Article Rating :: Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Creativity, Body Language, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills

The aim of this exercise is to emphasise the importance of non verbal communication when working in a team.

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Keep Your Balance on a Tight Sheet!

Keep Your Balance on a Tight Sheet!
:: Article Rating :: Games, Exercises, Team Building, Communication Skills, Assertiveness, Problem Solving, Goal Setting, Personal Impact, Emotional Intelligence, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills
This is a physical activity that you can use as a warm-up or  as a mental challenge. It encourages teamwork and group problem solving where everyone has to cooperate for the solution to work.
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The Fogging Technique

The Fogging Technique
:: Article Rating :: Conflict Management, Articles, Personal Impact, Emotional Intelligence, Giving Feedback, Listening Skills

How to accept criticism without letting it bring you down. Learn about a powerful technique.

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