Teamwork Exercise: Tell a Story About Your Past
This exercise provides a structure which allows delegates to share their views, experiences and values regarding teamwork and leadership with others. This exercise works for both newly formed teams...
Team Building Exercise: Capture the Dragon
This is a fun outdoor activity ideal for team building. It is also useful for young children as it is cooperative and competitive. It’s the kind of team leading exercise that leads to a memorable e...
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...
Feedback Exercise: Positive Affirmations
This uplifting and extremely positive exercise is suitable for a group of people who know each other well. The exercise helps delegates appreciate and reinforce each other’s positive traits. It is ...
Team Building Exercise: Aim for the Flag
This is an entertaining and educational exercise for building teams and getting people to work together towards a common objective. You can explore a whole lot of topics on teamwork, leadership, co...
Problem Solving Exercise: Design a Menu
This is a team building exercise suitable for all ages and both the academic and professional world. The aim is to get a number of teams to work together on a common task and understand the importa...
Team Building Exercise: Take it Without Touching
This is a simple but fun team building exercise most suitable for outdoors. This exercise can also be a fun activity for kids. You can run competitively and give a prize to the winner. It helps to ...
Accountability Exercise: Take One from the Jar
While managing a team you may give a series of tasks to various team members. Each time you delegate a task, you expect a member to perform and deliver results. This leads to the concept of account...
Team Building Exercise: Similar and Unique
This is an exercise to help team members discover their common interests and skills as well recognising each person’s unique skills and experiences. The setup is quite simple and you can easily cus...
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,...
Creativity Exercise: What is This For?
This creativity exercise is great in getting people to think how an uncommon designed object is used. The exercise can be used in two ways: Option 1. Delegates aim to find the primary function of...
Creativity Exercise: Alternative Applications
You can use this generic creativity exercise to get people think of unusual solutions to problems. The idea of the exercise is to force delegates to think about alternatives and then compare their ...
Icebreaker: What Do You Do When You Are Not Working?
Use this icebreaker to help people get to know each other more. It provides a structured approach so that the most is gained from the introductions in a short amount of time.
Goal Setting Exercise: I Admire People Who…
This exercise helps delegates realise what values they are impressed with the most, so that they can then relate these values back to themselves.
Brainstorming Exercise: Kill Negative Mentality in Meetings
This exercise helps delegates learn how to avoid negative mentality in meetings. When confronted with a new idea, most people think of problems first. They first consider how the idea doesn’t work ...
Icebreaker: What Are You Good At?
This is an icebreaker that helps delegates to become more familiar with each other. The aim is to systematically share information with a partner to maximise information transfer in a given time.
Team Building Exercise: Don’t Spill the Water
This is an exercise similar to the popular team building exercise on handling toxic waste. The major difference here is that participants need to handle a glass of water and don’t spill it while ca...
Use Random Stimuli to Boost Creativity
A great way to increase creativity is to use random stimuli. Random thoughts can lead to new associations which in turn can help the group to explore new parts of a search space not considered befo...
