Chocolate Packaging Design Competition Exercise

Chocolate Packaging Design Competition Exercise

Imagine walking into a supermarket and going to the isle dedicated to sweets and chocolates. Here, you are likely to find a section with a variety of block chocolate bars. These are often presented...

What Virtual Reality Can Do for Soft Skills Training

What Virtual Reality Can Do for Soft Skills Training

The new age of virtual reality (VR) is upon us. We are still at early stages of VR development, but the field has shown a strong promise. Of all the new technologies that we are about to fully expe...

Creativity Exercise: Make a Monster

Creativity Exercise: Make a Monster

This is a template for a creativity exercise centred on making monsters. It can be used for kids and adults depending on how you bias it and setup the exercise. You can consider assigning the task ...

Marketing Exercise: Learn from Good, Bad and Ugly Advertisements

Marketing Exercise: Learn from Good, Bad and Ugly Advertisements

This exercise helps to develop delegates’ observational skills on advertisement and marketing and also helps them design their own ads. It creates discussions on what works and what does not in des...

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...

Design Exercise: Design a Political Cartoon

Design Exercise: Design a Political Cartoon

This is a creative design exercise, allowing participants to work together as a team in achieving an objective. As part of this exercise, delegates will get to choose a number of political cartoons...

Creativity Exercise: What is This For?

Creativity Exercise: What is This For?

This creativity exercise is great in getting people to think how an uncommon designed object is used. The exercise can be used in two ways: Option 1. Delegates aim to find the primary function of...

Art Exercise: The Lost Artworks

Art Exercise: The Lost Artworks

This is an elaborate memory exercise that can be used for several purposes. You can use it to teach specific memory techniques in memorising pictures, names and words. You can use it to teach the ...

Use Random Stimuli to Boost Creativity

Use Random Stimuli to Boost Creativity

A great way to increase creativity is to use random stimuli. Random thoughts can lead to new associations which in turn can help the group to explore new parts of a search space not considered befo...

Communication Skills Exercise: Build an Identical Sculpture

Communication Skills Exercise: Build an Identical Sculpture

This exercise helps delegates to practice communication skills. In particular it focuses on observation skills, how to describe something in simple yet meaningful ways and how to provide feedback. ...

Art Exercise: Cooperative Sculpture

Art Exercise: Cooperative Sculpture

This exercise helps delegates work together to create a sculpture out of clay. It is ideal for classes on ceramics hand building with clay but it can also be used for a fun team building activity. ...

Recap Exercise: Visualise What You Learned Today

Recap Exercise: Visualise What You Learned Today

Research has long shown that visualisation can lead to better recall and learning. As a trainer, you can exploit visualisation to your advantage. One area where visualisation is useful is when reca...

Creativity Exercise: Employ Your Favourite Actor

Creativity Exercise: Employ Your Favourite Actor

In this exercise, delegates get to practice making a TV advertisement. The aim is for the delegates to think creatively and quickly with given resources and come up with an effective ad for a new p...

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...

Brainstorming Exercise: Brain Sketch

Brainstorming Exercise: Brain Sketch

In this exercise, delegates practice a visual brainstorming technique known as Brain Sketch (VanGundy 1988). The aim of this technique is to encourage visual solutions in isolation and also facilit...

Illustration Exercise: Artistic Evolution of Animals

Illustration Exercise: Artistic Evolution of Animals

In this creative exercise, delegates get to use their illustration skills and imagination in making new creatures that resemble known animals. It is a great exercise to use the power of imagination...

Illustration Exercise: Circular Life Drawing

Illustration Exercise: Circular Life Drawing

This standard exercise is ideal to get a group of delegates practice drawing from life without using a specific model.