Brainstorming Exercise: Display Your Ideas
Purpose In this brainstorming exercise delegates learn to come up with ideas separately and then together as a large group. The brainstorming technique helps those who are more comfortable in sma...
Brainstorming Exercise: The Shifting Technique
In this exercise delegates learn about an effective brainstorming technique that aims to take advantage of personal and group creativity. In classic brainstorming sessions, some members might feel ...
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
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...
Creativity Exercise: The Most Profitable Lego Tower
This entertaining exercise enables delegates to practice their creativity and problem solving in a team. It can also be used as a game or competition between different groups with a prize at the end.
Comprehension Exercise: Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal teaching is a technique used by trainers and teachers to facilitate understanding a piece of text. It is designed to promote comprehension by looking at a text from several different ang...
Carousel and Graffiti Brainstorming
The following powerful techniques known as Carousel Brainstorming and Graffiti Brainstorming can be used to brainstorm, refresh learners’ minds about a particular topic or to brainstorm on a new co...
Creativity Exercise: Get the Keys with a Broom
This is a memorable exercise that covers several concepts in an engaging exercise on creativity and teamwork. Delegates are challenged progressively to come up with better creative solutions. They ...
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
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...
Team Building Exercise: Make it Square
This is a physical exercise with an aim to encourage team work and collective problem solving. Use the variations to adjust the difficulty. It also highlights the importance of self-organisation an...
Cooperative Teamwork Exercise: Sort the Cards
You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.
Team Building Exercise: Make a Shape
This is a physical team buiding exercise that encourages self-organisation within a team when confronted with a challenge. You can test the group to see how quickly they can come up with a self-ass...
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...
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...
Group Problem Solving Exercise: Re-Zoom
This is a creative exercise which can be used to explore topics such as communication skills, leadership, problem solving decision making and perspective taking. Effectively, delegates must work to...
Questioning Skills Exercise: What’s My Name?
This is a famous entertaining game were a player must guess the name written on a card by asking closed questions where the answers can be “yes” or “no”. The objective is to find the name as quickl...
Conflict Management Exercise: Hidden Agenda
This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of working together and the destructive nature of having hidden agendas which can easily lead to conflicts and confrontations. It addresse...
