Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story with Three Images
This exercise helps to test the creativity of delegates on their ability to make stories based on a series of images. Each delegate sees a series of images and needs to make an interesting story th...
Icebreaker: This Reminds Me of…
This exercise helps with creative storytelling and impromptu delivery. It can also be used as an icebreaker to help delegates learn about each other. The choice of objects dictates what kinds of ar...
Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image
This is entertaining exercise on getting delegates to quickly think of a story to tell based on a visual prompt. The options allow you to bias the exercise based on what you want delegates to pract...
Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery
This entertaining exercise helps delegates practice their acting in front of an audience. Each person will be required to deliver a speech about a given topic. You can vary the exercise by expectin...
Google Ngram: Ever Wondered When a Given Word Became Popular?
Modern tools can provide a great insight on how certain terms have been used in the past. With the advent of search engines and in particular the ever more useful tools released by Google we can ex...
Story Design Exercise: The Alternative
In this exercise delegates practice designing a story. Story design can be quite challenging so this exercise helps to break it up to a simpler task by giving delegates a helpful starting point. Yo...
Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image
Use this exercise to get the delegates design a story based on a single image. The choice of these images can greatly influence the exercise, so use this much like a template to craft a training ex...
Communication Exercise: First Person but Few “I”s
Imagine a person who talks about himself all the time. The conversation is full of “I”, “me”, “my” and they constantly talk about what happens in their lives. Such people don’t tend to last long as...
Design Exercise: Design a Political Cartoon
This is a creative design exercise, allowing participants to work together as a team in achieving an objective. As part of this exercise, delegates will get to choose a number of political cartoons...
Self-Esteem Exercise: Tell a Story about Yourself
Some people are naturally quiet. They don’t see much need to talk about themselves or share what they have accomplished with others. They are always in danger of getting overshadowed by extrovert t...
Body Language Exercise: Write the Gestures
The aim of this exercise is to get the delegates think about body language and gestures and observe how such signals can be instrumental while communicating. The training exercise illustrates the i...
Problem Solving Exercise: Define the Sequence of Activities
This exercise helps groups of people to work together on a common activity to solve a given problem. The exercise allows you to address a number of training areas such as inter-group communication,...
Story Telling Exercise: Design a Story and Act It
This is an entertaining and creative exercise which can serve a variety of purposes. You can use it for subjects such as story making, storytelling, communication skills, acting and creative writin...
Creative Writing Exercise: Setting, Reflection, Conversation
This is a fun exercise where delegates get to practice creative writing in groups. Some people find writing difficult especially knowing where to start. This exercise is designed to inspire delegat...
Storytelling Exercise for Kids: Puppet Show
Storytelling and the ability to develop a character is an important part of a child’s development. This exercise helps kids telling a story without worrying about not knowing where to start. Here, ...
Personal Impact Exercise: How to Improve Diction
Good diction is about the art of speaking clearly so that you are understood to the fullest. Good diction is more about the tone of voice, the distinctiveness of speech and the pronunciation as opp...
Storytelling Exercise for Kids: Get Inspired by a Comic
Children love stories. It is well-known that they learn a lot by listening to well-crafted stories. They can easily associate with various characters and follow the interactions in the story. To bo...
Public Speaking Exercise: Impromptu Story Telling
This exercise allows delegates to practice speaking in public or in front of a group without the pressure associated with public speaking. The pace of the exercise is very fast and hence delegates ...
