8 Habits of Highly Effective Trainers
What is the secret to becoming a successful trainer? What makes a trainer stand out from the competition? Have you ever attended a course that you were so impressed by the trainer that you thought ...
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...
Selling Exercise: How to (Almost) Sell Anything
This exercise helps delegates to practice selling an object to an audience. It covers several key concepts: How to highlight USP (Unique Selling Points) in any given object How to increase the val...
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...
Why Are We Afraid of Delegating and What Can We Do About it
People are afraid of delegation. It is epidemic! Ask your colleagues how good they are in delegation and you are bound to hear something similar to these: “I am terrible at it” “I like to be bet...
Negotiation Exercise: Compete and Collaborate Simultaneously
This exercise is ideal for team building and negotiation where delegates learn to share their resources and also negotiate with each other in a competitive environment. They will learn that coopera...
Assertiveness Exercise: Group Communication Roleplay
This exercise helps delegates to practice communicating assertively. Assertive communication as opposed to passive or aggressive communication is usually the best way to handle aggressive communica...
Team Building Exercise: Make the Tallest Tower
In this exercise, delegates practice working together towards a common goal; making the tallest free standing tower given simple materials. The teambuilding game is competitive and requires creativ...
Change Management: Concentrate on Change to Survive
This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of focusing and concentration when they are in a fast changing environment.
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...
Acting Exercise: Act For Your Group Until You Win
This exercise helps participants to practice acting in front of a small audience. The ideal acting is one that conveys information as quickly and efficiently as possible. People need to think of id...
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: Caption the Cartoon
This fun activity helps delegates to exercise their creativity and use their whole brains (left and right side) to solve the problems presented here. You can also run this exercise as a competition...
Sales Exercise: Sales Pitch With FAB
In this exercise, delegates practice delivering a quick sales pitch. The structure of the pitch is based on the FAB methodology; Features, Advantages and Benefits. Most people miss the advantage an...
No More Soap: Make it Assertive
Many countries around the world regularly broadcast soap operas on TV; social programs which usually contain a lot of angry and emotional discussions between various extreme characters. This exerci...
The Secret to a Successful Teambuilding is Constructive Collaboration
Research carried out on many teams in large corporations show that they use suboptimal solutions when dealing with conflicts in teams. Every time there is a conflict in the team, they respond in a ...
Problem Solving Exercise: Solve Problems Under Pressure and Stress
This exercise helps delegates to understand the importance of several key principles, such as “Parkinson’s Law” as well as managing their performance in the face of change or increasingly challengi...
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...
