How to Avoid Bad Training Exercises

How to Avoid Bad Training Exercises

Many trainers are always in search of the next best exercise for their courses. On this site alone we have hundreds of exercises that you could choose from. You may even decide to design your own; ...

Spot the Fake News Exercise

Spot the Fake News Exercise

The advent of “Fake News” means that we are currently going through a major phase in history. Fake news has come to dominate the news, literally. It is sometimes amusing, but most often frightening...

Convergent vs Divergent Thinking Exercise

Convergent vs Divergent Thinking Exercise

A useful distinction in thinking process was suggested by Joy Paul Guilford in 1967. Guilford coined convergent thinking in contrast with divergent thinking. With convergent thinking, you are tryin...

Chocolate Packaging Design Competition Exercise

Chocolate Packaging Design Competition Exercise

Imagine walking into a supermarket and going to the isle dedicated to sweets and chocolates. Here, you are likely to find a section with a variety of block chocolate bars. These are often presented...

Boost Creativity Using the 6-Step Problem Solving Technique

Boost Creativity Using the 6-Step Problem Solving Technique

In the 21st century world, we often need to be creative when solving problems especially with the constant need to stand out in today’s crowded markets. Being creative is therefore a very useful sk...

Creativity Exercise: Make a Monster

Creativity Exercise: Make a Monster

This is a template for a creativity exercise centred on making monsters. It can be used for kids and adults depending on how you bias it and setup the exercise. You can consider assigning the task ...

Story Design Exercise: The Alternative

Story Design Exercise: The Alternative

In this exercise delegates practice designing a story. Story design can be quite challenging so this exercise helps to break it up to a simpler task by giving delegates a helpful starting point. Yo...

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image

Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image

Use this exercise to get the delegates design a story based on a single image. The choice of these images can greatly influence the exercise, so use this much like a template to craft a training ex...

Creativity Exercise: Alternative Applications

Creativity Exercise: Alternative Applications

You can use this generic creativity exercise to get people think of unusual solutions to problems. The idea of the exercise is to force delegates to think about alternatives and then compare their ...

Brainstorming Exercise: Design Shoes

Brainstorming Exercise: Design Shoes

This is an entertaining and educational exercise. It helps to unleash people’s creativity, bring them together and get them to cooperate on a common task and solve problems. In this exercise, the m...

Creativity Exercise: Stylish Logos

Creativity Exercise: Stylish Logos

This is a feel-good training exercise that gets everyone involved in a creative activity. In this exercise, delegates get to create a variety of illustrations or produce crafts which resemble the l...

Management Exercise: Limiting Instructions Reduces Creativity

Management Exercise: Limiting Instructions Reduces Creativity

This training exercise helps to emphasise the importance of giving open-ended instructions. Research shows that when the instructions are limiting or force a person or a group to consider only a su...

Team Building Exercise: Iterative Collaboration

Team Building Exercise: Iterative Collaboration

This three-part exercise focuses on collaboration and team building. It highlights the importance of communication and teamwork in groups. The three parts of the activity incrementally add more par...

Team Building Activities for Kids: My Dream T-Shirt

Team Building Activities for Kids: My Dream T-Shirt

Purpose This exercise is suitable for children as it allows them to express themselves artistically and reveal significant character traits which are important in team building. They will get to ...

Team Building Exercise: Make the Tallest Tower

Team Building Exercise: Make the Tallest Tower

In this exercise, delegates practice working together towards a common goal; making the tallest free standing tower given simple materials. The teambuilding game is competitive and requires creativ...

Creativity Exercise: Caption the Cartoon

Creativity Exercise: Caption the Cartoon

This fun activity helps delegates to exercise their creativity and use their whole brains (left and right side) to solve the problems presented here. You can also run this exercise as a competition...

Creativity Exercise: Design a Game

Creativity Exercise: Design a Game

This is a fairly flexible team building activity that you can use to improve delegates’ creativity, decision making and team working skills. Effectively you get the groups to design a game in the g...

Creativity Exercise: Design a Flag

Creativity Exercise: Design a Flag

Use this creativity exercise for team building. It is an ideal exercise for a group of people who are already working together or are about to start working together. Groups should work together to...