Exercises Training Resources

Clock Buddies: Find Your Number 7 Partner

Suppose you want to pair up your delegates. The usual way is that you just give a simple instruction such as “partner with the person on your left”. What if in another exercise you want to pair the...

Negotiation Exercise: Compete and Collaborate Simultaneously

This exercise is ideal for team building and negotiation where delegates learn to share their resources and also negotiate with each other in a competitive environment. They will learn that coopera...

Assertiveness Exercise: Group Communication Roleplay

This exercise helps delegates to practice communicating assertively. Assertive communication as opposed to passive or aggressive communication is usually the best way to handle aggressive communica...

Change Management: Concentrate on Change to Survive

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of focusing and concentration when they are in a fast changing environment.

Self-Analysis: Make Your Gratitude List Longer

This exercise helps delegates to become more aware of what they have and therefor appreciate where they are and how they are living. In our quest to become better and grow, we sometimes forget what...

Acting Exercise: Act For Your Group Until You Win

This exercise helps participants to practice acting in front of a small audience. The ideal acting is one that conveys information as quickly and efficiently as possible. People need to think of id...

Team Building Exercise: Shared Problem Solving

This activity allows people to help each other anonymously. Sometimes we may feel stuck or wonder what we could do to improve our behaviour or skills. We may however not feel comfortable to directl...

Creativity Exercise: Caption the Cartoon

This fun activity helps delegates to exercise their creativity and use their whole brains (left and right side) to solve the problems presented here. You can also run this exercise as a competition...

Sales Exercise: Sales Pitch With FAB

In this exercise, delegates practice delivering a quick sales pitch. The structure of the pitch is based on the FAB methodology; Features, Advantages and Benefits. Most people miss the advantage an...

No More Soap: Make it Assertive

Many countries around the world regularly broadcast soap operas on TV; social programs which usually contain a lot of angry and emotional discussions between various extreme characters. This exerci...

Problem Solving Exercise: Solve Problems Under Pressure and Stress

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of several key principles, such as “Parkinson’s Law” as well as managing their performance in the face of change or increasingly challengi...

Team Building Exercise: Make it Square

This is a physical exercise with an aim to encourage team work and collective problem solving. Use the variations to adjust the difficulty. It also highlights the importance of self-organisation an...

Personal Impact Exercise: This is Me

Use this exercise to get delegates describe themselves as they like and showcase it to others. There is a lot you can learn when people have to state something about themselves. The choice of words...

Cooperative Teamwork Exercise: Sort the Cards

You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.

Pass the Orange Game

This a simple and entertaining exercise which can be used as an icebreaker as well to make team members feel more comfortable with each other through contact. It is rather physical and the casual i...

Team Building Exercise: Shrinking Platform

This is a simple yet challenging teambuilding game which puts pressure on a group to solve a problem as the clock is ticking. The shared problem solving can help to improve relationships and encour...

Team Building Exercise: Make a Shape

This is a physical team buiding exercise that encourages self-organisation within a team when confronted with a challenge. You can test the group to see how quickly they can come up with a self-ass...

Team Building Exercise: Someone is a...

This is a suitable exercise for getting people in a team to express their feelings about each other but in a very indirect and controlled way. It also gives delegates a chance to see how others thi...