Question Mapping for Critical Thinking Exercise
This exercise focuses on enhancing participants’ ability to ask meaningful, strategic questions. By mapping out questions related to a complex problem, delegates will develop critical thinking skil...
Product Design Mash-Up Creativity Exercise
This exercise challenges participants to combine two unrelated design challenges into a single, cohesive solution. It encourages creative thinking and enhances problem-solving skills by making part...
Negotiation Role Reversal for Empathy and Strategy
This exercise helps participants develop empathy and strategic negotiation skills by requiring them to switch roles halfway through a negotiation. By experiencing both sides of the negotiation, del...
Decision-Making in Chaos for Crisis Management
This exercise simulates high-pressure, chaotic situations where multiple crises occur at once. It helps delegates improve their decision-making and prioritisation skills by requiring them to assess...
Creative Constraints Problem Solving Exercise
This exercise pushes delegates to find innovative solutions to common problems by working within strict, arbitrary constraints. The setup leads to creative problem-solving and builds emotional resi...
Creative Pattern Puzzle Challenge for Teambuilding
The Creative Pattern Puzzle Challenge is designed to hone skills in creativity, idea generation and management, project management, and team building. By engaging delegates in the manipulation of a...
Crisis Management Simulation in Event Planning
Delegates will be divided into groups, assuming roles in a scenario where they must manage a crisis at a large event, such as a sudden weather event, a keynote speaker cancellation or a power outag...
Sprint Methodology: Product Development Exercise
The purpose of this project management exercise is to simulate a real-world product development and marketing scenario, focusing on eco-friendly innovation. It is designed to enhance delegates’ und...
Prisoner’s Dilemma Exercise: The Trust Game
This exercise is designed to help participants understand the dynamics of cooperation and competition, trust, and decision-making under uncertainty, reflecting the principles of the Prisoner's Dile...
It is easy to think that a different life would have been easier or better. It is easy to think that somebody else’s life is vastly better than yours and to fantasise being in someone else’s positi...
Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise
This is a useful exercise in demonstrating the difference between Agile and traditional development environments such as waterfall. It can also help explore concepts such as silo mentality, where e...
This classic game was popularised in 80s. It is fun to play and helps to generate a lot of positives and negatives for a given topic. Delegates go through a series of statements that start with ‘fo...
Board Games for Team Building and Icebreakers
The purpose of icebreakers is to bring people together, familiarise them with each other, put them into the zone and basically break the ice as the name suggests. The purpose of team building activ...
Learn Scrum with an Exercise on Agile Project Management
Agile project management was popularised by the tech industry and has its roots in Japanese companies such as Toyota, Honda and Fuji. There are many who think agile development can lead to efficien...
Contrasting Ethical Dilemmas Exercise
This exercise facilitates discussion of ethical dilemmas. In most job, some decisions are not straight forward to make because one clear choice comes with certain ethical issues. The question then ...
Convergent vs Divergent Thinking Exercise
A useful distinction in thinking process was suggested by Joy Paul Guilford in 1967. Guilford coined convergent thinking in contrast with divergent thinking. With convergent thinking, you are tryin...
Fishbowl Conversation Technique
The fishbowl technique can be used to organise constructive discussions on a given topic. In a nutshell, the technique helps people manage a debate on the topic and keep it under control even if ma...
Teach Why Groups Can Take Too Much Risk While Making Decisions
Is there a difference between people making decisions in groups and individually in respect to the amount of risk they take? To investigate, James Stoner, who was a MIT graduate in 1960s, carried o...
