Games

This is a fun exercise which demonstrates the importance of communication and feedback in the success of a team.

This is a fun and noisy exercise that is ideal for a recap situation. You have thought a subject to your delegates and now want to test their knowledge or encourage them to review it. This exercise helps you to achieve this using a light hearted competition.

This is a fun activity which can be used to demonstrate the importance of non- verbal communication as well as a good energiser. This exercise is most suited to bigger groups of delegates but can be used in any group size.

This exercise encourages creativity and helps delegates to come up with a larger variety of solutions. The activity also enables participants to evaluate and compare the influence and effect of using expert views in solving problems. This activity is suitable for groups of people who have access to Internet and phone during the training session.

This is quick quiz on body language. It encourages delegates to put their knowledge on body language to test and see how well they can respond to realistic situations.

This is a fun exercise that encourages delegates to think creatively and participate with each other towards a common goal. This exercise is physical and artistic and useful as an energizer. It is ideal for delegates who are part of the same organisation, or in particular if they are part of the same team.

The problem presented in this activity encourages a better understanding of the effect of team work in problem solving. Although looking manageable individually at first, participants soon realise the need for cooperation with team members in solving the problem. This exercise is quite applicable to everyday work and it encourages delegates to examine their own behaviour and understand best approaches. It also allows delegates to consider long term effect of problems.

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of feedback in communications and realize why the lack if 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.

It is 2075. You are on Mars. A strong solar radiation took out your communication and computer electronics and disconnected you from the rest of the world. You have no idea what happened to others on Earth and must simply carry on surviving since you might be the only humans alive.

You are now faced with many tasks, one of which is preservation of human knowledge, culture and know how. You are in the team that works on dictionary restoration. With great difficulty, you have been able to salvage some data from the toasted hard-drives. Unfortunately, the index table that connects the words with their definitions is lost.

You have a series of words and definitions and your job is to find out which word correlates with which definition.

This is an entertaining physical exercise which engages delegates physically and mentally. This activity can be used as an ice breaker at the start of the session or as an energiser after lunch.

This exercise helps the delegates to look at both positive and negative aspects of everything in their environment. It is an energizing activity which sets two groups against each other who need to continuously think of positive and negative parts of an issue.

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.

When working in a team or a group we may start to develop dislikes or simply become sensitive to certain behaviours. As in any relationship, we originally look at the similarities between ourselves and others and are happy to make friends and bond with them as we find more similar features or behaviours. However, over time as we learn more about each other, differences become more obvious and they may cause irritation and separation between us and other team members. Famous psychological studies show that the more we know about someone, the more likely that we start to dislike them (apart from very special people such as our partners).

To reverse this trend or stop it from growing we need to overcome our dislikes either by putting them in perspective with all the other ‘annoyances’ out there or simply let them know how uncomfortable it is and encourage them to correct their behaviour. This exercise helps the delegates to identify and quantify their dislikes.

This is a fast paced energizer that is ideal for an after lunch activity or when you want to boost the moral and get the delegates’ heart rates going! Younger crowds are particularly more interested in this kind of games.