The Strangest Secret: Progressive Realisation of a Worthy Ideal

The Strangest Secret: Progressive Realisation of a Worthy Ideal

Earl Nightingale, a renowned self-help author, speaker, and radio personality, left a profound impact on the field of personal development and success. His teachings have inspired millions worldwid...

Powerful Strategic Planning Exercises to Include in Your Courses

Powerful Strategic Planning Exercises to Include in Your Courses

Strategic planning exercises help to re-energise your team and set them on the path of growth. It can inspire teams in any business, boost energy and moral and give a sense of direction to where th...

Student Group Maker for Teachers: How to Use Group Layouts

Student Group Maker for Teachers: How to Use Group Layouts

Suppose you want to run an exercise in your course and want to divide your class into groups of 4. That is rather straight forward to do for small groups. Now, suppose you want to run another exe...

Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise

Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise

This is a useful exercise in demonstrating the difference between Agile and traditional development environments such as waterfall. It can also help explore concepts such as silo mentality, where e...

Productivity Exercise: Multitasking Can Undermine Performance

Productivity Exercise: Multitasking Can Undermine Performance

These days, we want to multitask everything and all at once. Sometimes, when the work is routine, multitasking improves performance; for example, when you are cooking something you already know. Mo...

When to Run a Course and How to Time It

When to Run a Course and How to Time It

You are a subject expert. You are in the process of designing a face-to-face interactive course and wonder how to offer it to the market. A primary question you may ask yourself is how to decide th...

Team Building Exercise: Leaky Pipes

Team Building Exercise: Leaky Pipes

This is a classic exercise on team building. It is fun to participate in this exercise and yet it is quite powerful in bringing a team together while teaching communication, leadership and problem ...

Board Games for Team Building and Icebreakers

Board Games for Team Building and Icebreakers

The purpose of icebreakers is to bring people together, familiarise them with each other, put them into the zone and basically break the ice as the name suggests. The purpose of team building activ...

Learn Scrum with an Exercise on Agile Project Management

Learn Scrum with an Exercise on Agile Project Management

Agile project management was popularised by the tech industry and has its roots in Japanese companies such as Toyota, Honda and Fuji. There are many who think agile development can lead to efficien...

Applications of Clock Buddies

Applications of Clock Buddies

Back in 2013 we released a software tool on our website called Clock Buddies. Clock Buddies refers to a traditional tool used to pair people up in a classroom setting. Each person was given a blank...

Team Building Exercise: Snakes and Plates

Team Building Exercise: Snakes and Plates

In this team building exercise, delegates work together to complete a task. It requires concentration, planning and fast execution. Here, the decisions made by one team can affect the performance o...

What Can We Learn from Arnold’s Career Choices

What Can We Learn from Arnold’s Career Choices

Is there such a thing as a good career or a bad career? Is there such a thing as a good hobby or a bad hobby? Such choices are often very personal so can we really say what is good for people and w...

Training Technique: Combined Ranking

Training Technique: Combined Ranking

When delivering training courses, sometimes you need to get the delegates go through an exercise that involves sorting cards. Card sorting is a training activity where you get the delegates to thin...

What Does it Really Mean to Look into the Future

What Does it Really Mean to Look into the Future

We all do this, think about our future and asking ourselves how we can improve it. That is a fair question and indeed makes perfect sense for a forward looking progressive society. Unfortunately, i...

6 Critical Areas to Consider before Running any Training Exercise

6 Critical Areas to Consider before Running any Training Exercise

To run a successful face-to-face training course, you will need to go through several training exercises. These exercises can be critical in making the training more effective. Unfortunately, many ...

Top 5 Time Management Guidelines on Avoiding Procrastination and Increasing Productivity

Top 5 Time Management Guidelines on Avoiding Procrastination and Increasing Productivity

We all tend to procrastinate when it comes to certain tasks. Procrastination is about leaving a task for a later time and instead focusing on something less important. Sometimes, you may not feel l...

Change Management: From Past to Present

Change Management: From Past to Present

This exercise helps the delegates to examine our changing world and provides an opportunity to discuss what it means for future. You can use this as part of a change management course or to run it ...

Why Are We Afraid of Delegating and What Can We Do About it

Why Are We Afraid of Delegating and What Can We Do About it

 People are afraid of delegation. It is epidemic! Ask your colleagues how good they are in delegation and you are bound to hear something similar to these: “I am terrible at it” “I like to be bet...