Storytelling Exercise: Talk About This Topic For One Minute
This exercise can be used both as an icebreaker when you intend to get people to know each better or as a storytelling exercise. You can bias the exercise based on your chosen topics. This exercise...
How to Become a Master Trainer by Learning from Master Gamers
Imagine delivering a training course to delegates who are half sleep. Is there any point in carrying on? Sure enough, you still get paid for the current session; but surely that’s not your only aim...
Storytelling Exercise: Suddenly…
This is a simple storytelling exercises that forces the delegates to think of a new direction for a story every time they want to contribute to it.
Storytelling Exercise: Make a Grand Story Based on a Series of Objects
Use this exercise on storytelling to encourage creative and spontaneous thinking. This exercise is ideal for courses such as presentation skills and public speaking as well as any course that can b...
Body Language Exercise: How to Slow Down Your Fast Talking Habit
Some people are fast talkers. They like to talk with the same speed as they think. In the process fast talking people end up mumbling a lot, shortening sentences, rounding off parts and skipping wo...
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...
Personal Impact Exercise: Make a Perfect Pitch
In our competitive world, we need to present ourselves as best as we can to stand out from the crowd. Suppose someone asks you what you do? What would you say? Suppose you have about 30 seconds to ...
Acting Exercise: Moving and Following
This is a quick acting exercise which is usually used to get delegates familiarise themselves with space and movement. It encourages people in looking carefully and being constantly aware of their ...
Acting Exercise: Boost Performance Using Sensory Acting
The ability to act allows you to adopt different roles as you see fit. To be good at emotional intelligence, it is very important to understand emotions and be able to express appropriate emotions ...
Acting Exercise: Act Like an Actor
This is a useful exercise in acting. Use this exercise to help people adopt certain roles or learn how to imitate target behaviours. Acting and understanding how an ideal role feels like can help d...
Powerful Body Language Strategies
When conducting meetings and interacting with other people, your body language can become a critical part of your communication and may even come to define your success or failure. There are a numb...
Presentation Skills: Sharing Content
This activity is useful as an add-on to lectures, talks or presentations to make them more interactive and memorable. An interactive pause used during or after a lecture stops the current flow of c...
Public Speaking: What If No One Cared?
For many people public speaking doesn’t come naturally and they may develop a fear largely because of the way the society puts pressure on people who are in the spotlight. However, public speaking ...
Communication Exercise: Watch Your Language!
This is an easy and effective exercise which helps delegates to recognise how often they use quirks, slangs or incorrect sentences in their everyday communications.
It is well known that presenting is different from training. A good trainer focuses on delegates and his intention is to transfer a set of skills to them. In contrast a presenter is interested to r...
How to Write a Speech to Get Maximum Results
If there is one thing less appealing than giving a public talk is giving a bad one. If you haven’t prepared your speech don’t have high expectations. Experience shows that giving a speech without p...
