Active Listening Exercise: As Mark Just Said
Most people are not good listeners. This is even more pronounced when people get excited about sharing their own views or thoughts and like to express them and share them with others quickly. The p...
Active Listening Exercise: Listen Carefully and Contribute
Active listening is a critical communication skill and it is important to know how to do it. This exercise has been designed in such a way that encourages delegates to pay their utmost attention wh...
5 Useful Methods to Increase Attention and Focus
Humans have evolved to focus their attention on what matters most. To navigate a complex environment, we have ended up with a kind of brain that vigorously filters out unnecessary information. This...
Magic Trick: Show off Your Telepathic Powers
This exercise is ideal for teams with new additions to them. Sometimes it takes a while for teams to get used to their new members and the same is true for the new addition. Joining an already exis...
Memory Exercise: Recap on Lessons Covered So Far
This exercise helps to refresh delegates’ memory about what you just taught them. It encourages them to think about the training lessons covered so far and make a few statements about what they hav...
It is easy to come across statements that sound scientific or logical. It is one thing to hear them; another to pass them on as a trainer. Unfortunately, over the years a few statements seem to hav...
Team Building Exercise: You Can’t Touch My Palm
This is a fun activity that requires concentration and focus. It is ideal as a team building exercise or as an icebreaker to make people feel more comfortable with each other.
Time Management Exercise: Monitor Your Perfectionism
This is a quick exercise that helps illustrate that we don’t need to be perfect all the time. Aiming for perfection can cost a lot of time and is often counter-productive. Research shows that major...
Branding and Marketing Exercise: Logos You See in One Day
We are exposed to many brands every day in our environment as well as direct advertisement. It is estimated that an average American sees as much as 16000 brands every single day! What does each br...
To reduce learner passivity and increase interaction and reflection, a technique known as the “Three Minutes Pause” is very useful. The idea is that after covering a topic or a complex concept, you...
Attention and Focus Exercise: Touch 9 Cones
This is a physical exercise ideal for physical training as well as concentration and focus. This exercise touches on many areas with the aim to make an individual more agile and precise while under...
This exercise helps delegates to memorise physical moves and also improve reaction times when a command is heard. The basic concept is very simple and can be easily applied to a variety of exercise...
Problem Solving Exercise: Solve Problems Under Pressure and Stress
This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of several key principles, such as “Parkinson’s Law” as well as managing their performance in the face of change or increasingly challengi...
Memory Exercise: Lists versus Images
We all deal with lists almost on a daily basis. However, as we all have discovered, lists can be difficult to memorise and remember. Research shows that we have significant problems remembering a l...
Creativity Exercise: What Is That!?
This is powerful exercise in helping people to think out of the box and become more creative. The setup primes people to think creatively about everyday objects and design their own version. This h...
Memory Exercise: Did You Catch That?
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 ...
Non-Verbal Awareness Exercise: Use Your Senses
The purpose of this activity is to help delegates examine their non-verbal and non-visual senses and build their confidence in sensing and reading others. It demonstrates the power of people's cons...
Attention to Detail Exercise: What Was in The Box?
The purpose of this exercise is to help delegates practice memorising and paying attention to detail. Repeated exercise can increase focus and help people to become more aware of their surroundings...
