‘Oh, There You Are’ Acting Warmup Exercise
This fast-paced, interactive activity strengthens delegates’ ability to express emotion, improvise dialogue and respond spontaneously in character. Variations of this are often used as warmup in ac...
‘What Are You Doing?’ Improvisation Exercise
To build adaptability, spontaneous thinking, and physical storytelling skills through playful improvisation. This activity trains delegates to listen closely, respond creatively and transition role...
This interactive relay exercise helps delegates recognise, express and interpret emotions, both primary and complex. It develops emotional intelligence by improving awareness of subtle facial expre...
Three-Line Improvisation Scene Exercise
This exercise is useful to sharpen improvisational thinking and emotional reasoning by building mini-scenes. The scenes involve unusual behaviours, their recognition and justification, all in just ...
Zombie name chase game is a high-energy, low-prep activity that combines laughter with learning. It can be used as warm-up or icebreaker to help delegates learn each others’ names. It is also great...
Body Language Storytelling Relay Teamwork Exercise
This exercise helps delegates improve their ability to communicate and interpret stories using body language alone. It promotes creativity, teamwork and a deeper understanding of how much can be ex...
The Silent Storyboard for Visual Communication and Focus
This exercise develops delegates’ ability to communicate complex ideas and stories purely through visual elements. It improves their focus on details, enhances their storytelling skills, and encour...
Acting Through Objects with Non-Verbal Expression
This exercise encourages participants to develop non-verbal communication skills and creative expression by focusing on the emotional and relational significance of objects. By interacting with a r...
Powerful Questions That Help You Evaluate Your Training Performance
You have just finished delivering a course. Most trainers tend to be relieved that it is now out of the way, that there were no major technical issues, and, hopefully, most learners liked the cours...
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...
Emotional Intelligence Exercise: Making Eye Contact
This exercise helps delegates to understand and appreciate the power of eye contact and how it can affect emotional connection and emotional states. It is ideal in teaching emotional intelligence, ...
Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery
This entertaining exercise helps delegates practice their acting in front of an audience. Each person will be required to deliver a speech about a given topic. You can vary the exercise by expectin...
Body Language Exercise: Write the Gestures
The aim of this exercise is to get the delegates think about body language and gestures and observe how such signals can be instrumental while communicating. The training exercise illustrates the i...
Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It
This is an entertaining and creative exercise which can serve a variety of purposes. You can use it for subjects such as story making, storytelling, communication skills, acting and creative writin...
Body Language Exercise: Observe People in Everyday Situations
Use this body language exercise at the beginning of a session before covering non-verbal communication. The aim is to find out how much delegates already know about this topic and effectively prepa...
Body Language Exercise: How to Slow Down Your Fast Talking Habit
Some people are fast talkers. They like to talk with the same speed as they think. In the process fast talking people end up mumbling a lot, shortening sentences, rounding off parts and skipping wo...
Body Language Exercise: Guess the Initial Mood
This exercise helps illustrate an important point on body language. As soon as we see a person, we read their body language quickly to establish their mood and we can be fairly good at this. The pr...
Public Speaking Exercise: How to Appear Confident by Adjusting Your Body Language
Many people find public speaking daunting. They get butterflies in stomach, feel nervous and sometimes simply refuse to give a public presentation when they can get away with it. It doesn’t have to...
