Exercises Training Resources

Memory Exercise: Lists versus Images

We all deal with lists almost on a daily basis. However, as we all have discovered, lists can be difficult to memorise and remember. Research shows that we have significant problems remembering a l...

Creativity Exercise: What Is That!?

This is powerful exercise in helping people to think out of the box and become more creative. The setup primes people to think creatively about everyday objects and design their own version. This h...

Feedback Exercise: Share Your Thoughts

The purpose of this team building activity is to encourage delegates to share their feelings about the organisation they are in. Using a systematic approach, delegates get to talk about their posit...

Memory Exercise: Did You Catch That?

This exercise helps delegates to practice focusing, paying attention to detail and memorising. It can be easily customised to suite specific needs or even turned into a competition to address team ...

Creativity Exercise: Design a Game

This is a fairly flexible team building activity that you can use to improve delegates’ creativity, decision making and team working skills. Effectively you get the groups to design a game in the g...

Non-Verbal Awareness Exercise: Use Your Senses

The purpose of this activity is to help delegates examine their non-verbal and non-visual senses and build their confidence in sensing and reading others. It demonstrates the power of people's cons...

Creativity and Sales Exercise: Sell a Lot of Stuff

This is a creativity exercise in a form of a template that you can customise in a variety ways. The format is that the group comes into possession of a large number of a certain used old product. T...

Group Problem Solving Exercise: Re-Zoom

This is a creative exercise which can be used to explore topics such as communication skills, leadership, problem solving decision making and perspective taking. Effectively, delegates must work to...

Attention to Detail Exercise: What Was in The Box?

The purpose of this exercise is to help delegates practice memorising and paying attention to detail. Repeated exercise can increase focus and help people to become more aware of their surroundings...

Leadership Exercise: Follow My Instructions

This is a powerful team building activity that brings out the potential qualities of a good leader. It is a fairly physical exercise and you may need to brief the participants beforehand so they ca...

Creativity Exercise: Design a Flag

Use this creativity exercise for team building. It is an ideal exercise for a group of people who are already working together or are about to start working together. Groups should work together to...

Diversity Exercise: Am I Right?

In this entertaining activity, delegates get to evaluate each other based on predispositions and assumptions. You can use the exercise for training on diversity and political correctness. It is run...

Questioning Skills Exercise: What’s My Name?

This is a famous entertaining game were a player must guess the name written on a card by asking closed questions where the answers can be “yes” or “no”. The objective is to find the name as quickl...

Conflict Management Exercise: Hidden Agenda

This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of working together and the destructive nature of having hidden agendas which can easily lead to conflicts and confrontations. It addresse...

Change Management: Five Major Changes in My Life

This exercise is suitable for delegates who are going through change or there has been significant change at work. Can be used as part of a change management course as well.

Giving Feedback Exercise: Improve Your Self-Awareness

This is a simple exercise that anyone can use to measure his self-awareness. Simply think about answering a series of questions and through that become more aware of how you feel and how others fee...

Team Building Exercise: Helium Stick

This simple yet powerful team building game helps the delegates to understand several concepts all at once; communication skills, cooperation, patience and how to manage small contributions to achi...

Presentation Skills Exercise: Tell a Story

Good presentation skills and public speaking require multitude of skills; creativity, storytelling, creative slide design, engaging attitude, emotional content, effective non-verbal gestures and so...