The Empathy Expedition: Leadership and Change Management Game

The Empathy Expedition: Leadership and Change Management Game

The Empathy Expedition is a dynamic and game-like roleplay exercise designed to develop emotional intelligence, leadership, and change management skills in an engaging and entertaining way. Partici...

Student Group Maker for Teachers: How to Use Group Layouts

Student Group Maker for Teachers: How to Use Group Layouts

Suppose you want to run an exercise in your course and want to divide your class into groups of 4. That is rather straight forward to do for small groups. Now, suppose you want to run another exe...

Powerful Questions That Help You Evaluate Your Training Performance

Powerful Questions That Help You Evaluate Your Training Performance

You have just finished delivering a course. Most trainers tend to be relieved that it is now out of the way, that there were no major technical issues, and, hopefully, most learners liked the cours...

Acting and Improvisation Exercises

Acting and Improvisation Exercises

Practicing improvisation exercises can greatly help with communication skills and help reduce fear of being on stage. In a controlled environment of a class, you can easily get delegates to practic...

How to Avoid Bad Training Exercises

How to Avoid Bad Training Exercises

Many trainers are always in search of the next best exercise for their courses. On this site alone we have hundreds of exercises that you could choose from. You may even decide to design your own; ...

Envy Self-Reflection Exercise

Envy Self-Reflection Exercise

It is easy to think that a different life would have been easier or better. It is easy to think that somebody else’s life is vastly better than yours and to fantasise being in someone else’s positi...

Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise

Agile vs. Traditional Task Management Exercise

This is a useful exercise in demonstrating the difference between Agile and traditional development environments such as waterfall. It can also help explore concepts such as silo mentality, where e...

Productivity Exercise: Multitasking Can Undermine Performance

Productivity Exercise: Multitasking Can Undermine Performance

These days, we want to multitask everything and all at once. Sometimes, when the work is routine, multitasking improves performance; for example, when you are cooking something you already know. Mo...

Spot the Fake News Exercise

Spot the Fake News Exercise

The advent of “Fake News” means that we are currently going through a major phase in history. Fake news has come to dominate the news, literally. It is sometimes amusing, but most often frightening...

What Does This Picture Say About Your Company

What Does This Picture Say About Your Company

This is a powerful exercise that can help managers to understand what their team thinks of the organisation's structure. Such structures are used by companies in order to communicate their vision w...

When to Run a Course and How to Time It

When to Run a Course and How to Time It

You are a subject expert. You are in the process of designing a face-to-face interactive course and wonder how to offer it to the market. A primary question you may ask yourself is how to decide th...

A Variation of Chinese Whisper Listening Exercise

A Variation of Chinese Whisper Listening Exercise

This is an interesting variation of the infamous Chinese Whisper exercise. In this variation, some volunteers leave the room and then be brought back in, rather than just whispering a sentence in t...

Fortunately - Unfortunately

Fortunately - Unfortunately

This classic game was popularised in 80s. It is fun to play and helps to generate a lot of positives and negatives for a given topic. Delegates go through a series of statements that start with ‘fo...

Converged Words

Converged Words

This is a fun exercise focusing on word play where the delegates need to converge on a common word based on previously suggested words. When convergence happens, it is immensely enjoyable. The pair...

Change Management: Reorganised Wallet-Purse

Change Management: Reorganised Wallet-Purse

This is a powerful exercise that demonstrates why change should not be imposed. The likelihood of resistance is much higher when people are not consulted on change. This is why they should be invol...

Active Listening Skills Roleplay

Active Listening Skills Roleplay

This is a highly educational and entertaining exercise on asking open questions. Open questions lead to more information while closed questions lead to a yes/no answer. Open questions are usually m...

Medieval vs. Modern Roleplay

Medieval vs. Modern Roleplay

In this exercise delegates put themselves in the medieval era and try to look at the world from a new point of view. Their view is then compared to modern times. In the medieval era, people didn’t ...

Team Building Exercise: Leaky Pipes

Team Building Exercise: Leaky Pipes

This is a classic exercise on team building. It is fun to participate in this exercise and yet it is quite powerful in bringing a team together while teaching communication, leadership and problem ...