Communication Skills Exercise: Observe, Explain, Do

Communication Skills Exercise: Observe, Explain, Do

This activity helps delegates to improve their teamwork and communication and interpersonal skills while going through a specific task. The task is fairly simple. To succeed at their task, the team...

Boost Self-Esteem and Confidence

Boost Self-Esteem and Confidence

This exercise is useful in showing people how resourceful they already are. People who suffer from lack of self-esteem tend to focus on their weaknesses or to blame others for their problems. This ...

Giving Feedback Exercise: If I Had a Different Job

Giving Feedback Exercise: If I Had a Different Job

This is a simple yet powerful exercise in getting people to share their perception about others. Sometimes seeing the world from another person’s point of view can have a significant benefit for us...

Team Building Exercise: Shared Problem Solving

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...

Feedback Exercise: Analyse People’s Lives

Feedback Exercise: Analyse People’s Lives

This exercise helps delegates to better understand each other and also gives them an opportunity to provide anonymous feedback. It is a rather simple exercise though can be quite revealing as peopl...

Team Building Exercise: Someone is a...

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...

Feedback Exercise: Share Your Thoughts

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...

Giving Feedback Exercise: Improve Your Self-Awareness

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...

Leadership Skills Exercise: Help Others to Increase Their Self-Esteem

Leadership Skills Exercise: Help Others to Increase Their Self-Esteem

Purpose A leader’s performance is defined by how he or she leads others. For others to follow a leader, it is critical for them to know that they are valued. The sense of significance and knowing t...

Communication Skills Exercise: Fold and Cut

Communication Skills Exercise: Fold and Cut

The powerful exercise illustrates the importance of giving meaningful instructions to others and expecting feedback for correct execution of those instructions. The activity is fun to do but indire...

Communication Exercise: Giving Feedback

Communication Exercise: Giving Feedback

This is a fun exercise which demonstrates the importance of communication and feedback in the success of a team.

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...

Coaching Exercise: To Tell or Not to Tell

Coaching Exercise: To Tell or Not to Tell

This is an energizing exercise designed to show the difference between direct instructions and feedback. In other words, it shows that shaping seems to be a lot more effective than telling.

Exercise: This is How You Should Make It

Exercise: This is How You Should Make It

In this creative exercise, participants get to understand the value of confirmations and feedback in communication. Sometimes instructors fail to observe, receive feedbacks and correct the procedur...

Perception Exercise: What Am I Holding?

Perception Exercise: What Am I Holding?

This activity highlights individual’s ability to recognise objects by hearing their visual characteristics and illustrates the importance of perception and attention to detail in gathering informat...

Communication Skills Exercise: Repeat After Me

Communication Skills Exercise: Repeat After Me

This effective exercise helps the delegates to understand how critical it is to listen before they talk in conversations. Most people simply talk from their own point of view and pay little attenti...

Communication Exercise: Chinese Whisper

Communication Exercise: Chinese Whisper

This exercise highlights the importance of confirming the information we receive from either our colleagues or clients. This activity is designed for groups of at least 8 delegates or more.

Open Versus Closed Questions Exercise

Open Versus Closed Questions Exercise

Asking the right types of questions to get the right kinds of answers is a critical skill everyone must master. This is not always easy since you need to balance between wanting to get more specifi...