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...

Fortunately - Unfortunately

Fortunately - Unfortunately

This classic game was popularised in 80s. It is fun to play and helps to generate a lot of positives and negatives for a given topic. Delegates go through a series of statements that start with ‘fo...

Converged Words

Converged Words

This is a fun exercise focusing on word play where the delegates need to converge on a common word based on previously suggested words. When convergence happens, it is immensely enjoyable. The pair...

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...

Teamwork Exercise: Broadcast News

Teamwork Exercise: Broadcast News

This is an entertaining and educational activity designed to test a group of people on their creativity as well as teamwork. The task involves producing a video. However, the video production is on...

Creative Writing Exercise: The Last Straw

Creative Writing Exercise: The Last Straw

In this creative writing exercise delegates change a given instruction to a funny statement that is deemed more effective. The humour helps to increase the likelihood of the instruction being follo...

Icebreaker: This Reminds Me of…

Icebreaker: This Reminds Me of…

This exercise helps with creative storytelling and impromptu delivery. It can also be used as an icebreaker to help delegates learn about each other. The choice of objects dictates what kinds of ar...

Google Ngram: Ever Wondered When a Given Word Became Popular?

Google Ngram: Ever Wondered When a Given Word Became Popular?

Modern tools can provide a great insight on how certain terms have been used in the past. With the advent of search engines and in particular the ever more useful tools released by Google we can ex...

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...

Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation

Creative Writing Exercise: An Intriguing Phone Conversation

This is powerful exercise in creative writing where delegates get to write a phone conversation based on certain limiting criteria. The structured approach to writing helps to make the task more cr...

Communication Exercise: First Person but Few “I”s

Communication Exercise: First Person but Few “I”s

Imagine a person who talks about himself all the time. The conversation is full of “I”, “me”, “my” and they constantly talk about what happens in their lives. Such people don’t tend to last long as...

Body Language Exercise: Write the Gestures

Body Language Exercise: Write the Gestures

The aim of this exercise is to get the delegates think about body language and gestures and observe how such signals can be instrumental while communicating. The training exercise illustrates the i...

Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It

Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It

This is an entertaining and creative exercise which can serve a variety of purposes. You can use it for subjects such as story making, storytelling, communication skills, acting and creative writin...

Creative Writing Exercise: Setting, Reflection, Conversation

Creative Writing Exercise: Setting, Reflection, Conversation

This is a fun exercise where delegates get to practice creative writing in groups. Some people find writing difficult especially knowing where to start. This exercise is designed to inspire delegat...

Creativity Exercise: Introducing Random Associations

Creativity Exercise: Introducing Random Associations

This is a template for a problem solving exercise that help generates a variety of solutions. The technique can be used in brainstorming or any creative thinking activity. It aims to bring randomne...

Storytelling Exercise: Suddenly…

Storytelling Exercise: Suddenly…

This is a simple storytelling exercises that forces the delegates to think of a new direction for a story every time they want to contribute to it.

Storytelling Exercise: Collective Story Making

Storytelling Exercise: Collective Story Making

In this exercise delegates get to practice writing stories by creatively adding their own extensions to a series of stories and collectively develop them. This is an ideal exercise for creative par...