Exercises Training Resources

Storytelling Exercise: Collective Story Making

In this exercise delegates get to practice writing stories by creatively adding their own extensions to a series of stories and collectively develop them. This is an ideal exercise for creative par...

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...

Language Exercise: Order from Subway

This is an entertaining and educational exercise for teaching languages. It sets the context for one of the most useful and essential needs when using a new language; ordering food. While the exerc...

Team Building Exercise: Mexican Wave

This exercise is a great energizer. It is highly active and best performed outdoors. At first, this exercise may sound bizarre but people usually get used to it quickly. It can be used as teambuild...

Classical Brainstorming and Double Brainstorming

Brainstorming is one of the most widely used techniques to generate ideas. If it is carried out systematically it can do wonders and can lead to innovation and a huge amount of creativity. Classica...

Change Management: From Past to Present

This exercise helps the delegates to examine our changing world and provides an opportunity to discuss what it means for future. You can use this as part of a change management course or to run it ...

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...

Icebreaker: Art Class Warm Up

This icebreaker is ideal for art classes on various topics such as illustration, drawing and painting. Suppose you want your new delegates to get to know each other better while at the same time ga...

Icebreaker: What is My Nickname

This icebreaker is ideal for the beginning of the course to get the delegates become more comfortable with each other. It can also be used for newly formed teams as an effective team bonding activity.

Sales Calls Exercise: Have a Clear and Measurable Objective

When making a call, it is important to formulate an objective before making the call. This allows you to focus on what you want and not to get side-tracked. In this exercise, delegates can practice...

Icebreaker: Ask Three Questions

This icebreaker helps delegates get to know each other better while allowing them more control over what they want to find out about others.

Sales Skills Exercise: Name the Benefit

This is a quick exercise in getting the delegates to think about the “benefits” of a product for a particular feature. The emphasis is to quickly convert a feature to several benefits on the fly an...

Management Exercise: 6 Levels of Delegation

Delegation is a great way to save time. Apart from saving time, delegation helps motivate your staff by giving them responsibility. Your team will benefit by participating in activities and the dec...

Management Exercise: Mind Share

This energetic exercise can be used as a brainstorming and data-collection activity for team members. It helps individuals to express themselves around a predefined set of questions. This can also ...

Motivation Exercise: What Makes Your Organisation Powerful

This is a simple exercise designed to help the delegates see the positive aspects of their roles and organisation and define actions that can further boost the output of the organisation. This exer...

Sales Exercise: Features versus Benefits

This exercise helps delegate to practice understanding the difference between benefits and features. It is an efficient exercise to encourage sales and marketing people to use “benefits” when descr...

Customer Service Exercise: Praise and Criticism Letters

This is an engaging exercise for those who work in marketing, sales or customer services. It allows them to see their organisation from the customer’s point of view. They can then use this knowledg...

Motivation Exercise: What do You Want for Reward

We all want a better life, better job, more money, better recognition and so on. But do we really know what satisfies us the most in case we were going to be rewarded? Does your organisation know w...