Management Exercise: Mind Share

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 ...

Praise Everyone Everywhere All the Time

Praise Everyone Everywhere All the Time

When was the last time you praised someone? If you have to think to answer this question, then you are not doing enough. People are extremely praise-deprived. They long for praise from anyone all t...

Motivation Exercise: What do You Want for Reward

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...

Communication Exercise: Eliminate Negative Talk

Communication Exercise: Eliminate Negative Talk

Negativity is contagious. It’s all too easy to complain about everything that goes wrong and this can quickly spread to others. Fortunately there is a simple trick that can be used to eliminate neg...

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...

Clock Buddies: Find Your Number 7 Partner

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...

Self-Analysis: Make Your Gratitude List Longer

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...

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...

Creativity Exercise: Design a Flag

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...

Change Management: Five Major Changes in My Life

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.

Emotional Intelligence Exercise: Increase Your Self-Awareness

Emotional Intelligence Exercise: Increase Your Self-Awareness

Purpose Knowing how we feel is part of our self-awareness. The more we are aware of our feelings, the better we can control our behaviours and understand those of others. This exercise helps deleg...

Motivation Exercise: Look Back From the Future

Motivation Exercise: Look Back From the Future

Being a good person or a leader requires a good vision, persistence, definite plans and an ability to reflect on your current state so you can see what you need to do next to get there. This exerci...

Motivation Exercise: My Heroes

Motivation Exercise: My Heroes

Research shows that people with specific and defined goals are more likely to succeed in life than those without. One of the great ways to find these goals is to get inspired by your favourite hero...

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...

Emotional Intelligence Exercise: How Admirable Are You?

Emotional Intelligence Exercise: How Admirable Are You?

Self-awareness and self-motivation are critical competencies within emotional intelligence. Everyone must actively take steps to become better in these areas. A great way to achieve this is by syst...

Icebreaker: A Friendly Bunch

Icebreaker: A Friendly Bunch

This is a fun and effective exercise especially for a group of delegates who don’t know each other or don’t normally work together. It provides a fun environment for training and puts some smiles o...

Team Building Exercise: What I Like

Team Building Exercise: What I Like

In this exercise, delegates will have an opportunity to share their personalities with others. Sometimes stating our principles to others is the best way to show our true beliefs. This exercise acc...

Team Building Exercise: At My Best

Team Building Exercise: At My Best

This activity helps delegates to look at their own abilities and experiences and acknowledge them. By sharing their qualities and attributes with the rest of the group, participants will feel bette...