This exercise is ideal for team building and negotiation where delegates learn to share their resources and also negotiate with each other in a competitive environment. They will learn that cooperation can be much more effective than direct competition or being difficult.

In this exercise, delegates practice working together towards a common goal; making the tallest free standing tower given simple materials. The exercise is competitive and requires creativity as well as good leadership, division of task, resource management and decision making.

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of focusing and concentration when they are in a fast changing environment.

This exercise helps participants to practice acting in front of a small audience. The ideal acting is one that conveys information as quickly and efficiently as possible. It is designed to be competitive, so participants are pushed to act better.

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 between groups and provide a prize at the end.

You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.

This a simple and entertaining exercise which can be used as an ice breaker as well to make team members feel more comfortable with each other. It is rather physical and the casual intimacy can help to break the ice, though it may not be suitable for certain formal settings.

This is a simple yet challenging exercise which puts pressure on a group to solve a problem as the clock is ticking. To successfully survive the task, the group must learn to work together quickly and efficiently.

This exercise helps delegates to practice focusing, paying attention to detail and memorising. It can be easily customised to suite specific needs or even turned into a competition to address team work and leadership skills (see variations). It is ideal for all ages.

This is a fairly flexible exercise you can use to improve delegates’ creativity, decision making and team working skills. Effectively you get the groups to design a game in the given time and later evaluate the process they went through. You can use a number of variations to customise this exercise based on your needs.

The purpose of this exercise is to help delegates examine their non-verbal senses and build their confidence in sensing others. It demonstrates the power of our conscious and unconscious ability to sense other people.