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Communication Exercise: Unusual Greetings

Communication Exercise: Unusual Greetings

This humorous activity encourages delegates to use unusual sentences for greetings. This exercise aims to demonstrate the effect of honest and genuine greetings which can make communication more ef...

Communication Exercise: Mime It Out!

Communication Exercise: Mime It Out!

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...

Problem Solving Exercise: Word Change

Problem Solving Exercise: Word Change

This activity encourages solution generation by looking at the problem from a different prospective. By changing the way we describe a problem we can come up with ideas to fix it. This exercise wor...

Team Building Exercise: Reveal and Win

Team Building Exercise: Reveal and Win

This is a fun activity which encourages honest communication between delegates. By sharing their difficult, frustrating or embarrassing moments at work, delegates will help each other in recognisin...

Team Building Exercise: Thank You Note

Team Building Exercise: Thank You Note

Purpose An activity suitable for people from the same team, this exercise illuminates the importance of appreciating team members’ efforts and encourages delegates to show their gratitude towards t...

Team Building Exercise: Annoying Colleagues

Team Building Exercise: Annoying Colleagues

This is an eye opening exercise which works best with a group of delegates who normally work together or are about to work together as a team. The activity increases individual’s awareness about ho...

Icebreaker: Congratulations

Icebreaker: Congratulations

This fun exercise generates quite a bit of a laugh and is most suited to group of people who are meeting for the first time. It also works for people who work with each other and are familiar with ...

Team Building Exercise: Word Tangle

Team Building Exercise: Word Tangle

This fun and creative exercise allows participants to work within a team and brainstorm different ideas to come up with the right answer.

Energiser: Synchronised Movement

Energiser: Synchronised Movement

This is a fun activity which can be used as an energiser or icebreaker within any group of people. The physical movement associated with this exercise makes it ideal for long training sessions wher...

Team Building Exercise: Collective Knowledge

Team Building Exercise: Collective Knowledge

Purpose This engaging activity is suitable for most teams, especially for new teams where team members still need to find our more about each other. Objective Participants to share their knowledge ...

Eye Contact

Eye Contact

This exercise helps the delegates to understand the importance of eye contact and appreciate its social implications. People can also compare themselves with others in making eye contact which is u...

Conflict Resolution Exercise: Help Me Out!

Conflict Resolution Exercise: Help Me Out!

The aim of this exercise is to draw attention to the number of conflicts and similar stressful situations experienced by delegates in one week and use others in the group to come up with reasonable...

Externalising Internal Conflicts Exercise

Externalising Internal Conflicts Exercise

This activity helps the delegates to resolve their internal conflicts by treating them as external conflicts. Internal conflicts are those conflicts between and you and yourself. External conflicts...

Communication Skills Exercise: All About Me

Communication Skills Exercise: All About Me

This exercise is an effective way to draw delegate’s attention to their strength and achievements. The activity also allows participants to communicate their qualities freely with others and feel m...

Communication Skills: Recall Interruption

Communication Skills: Recall Interruption

Psychologists have suggested a direct link between the way you recall an event and the way you are questioned about it. The structure of the questions and the wordings are critical. Numerous studie...

Effective Teaching Methods: One-Way Teaching

Effective Teaching Methods: One-Way Teaching

Instructional methods can be divided into one-way and two-way methods. In the one-way method, the direction of the information is from the instructor to the audience. In the two-way method, informa...

Communication Skills: Multiplayer Puzzle

Communication Skills: Multiplayer Puzzle

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 ...

Can You Make it with Dominos?

Can You Make it with Dominos?

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of feedback in communications and realize why the lack of it can be so frustrating for both sides. By working together towards a common go...

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