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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...
Team Building Exercise: Make it Square
This is a physical exercise with an aim to encourage team work and collective problem solving. Use the variations to adjust the difficulty. It also highlights the importance of self-organisation an...
Personal Impact Exercise: This is Me
Use this exercise to get delegates describe themselves as they like and showcase it to others. There is a lot you can learn when people have to state something about themselves. The choice of words...
Cooperative Teamwork Exercise: Sort the Cards
You can use this exercise to explore teamwork, leadership and the ability to work under pressure and cooperatively to solve a problem.
This a simple and entertaining exercise which can be used as an icebreaker as well to make team members feel more comfortable with each other through contact. It is rather physical and the casual i...
Team Building Exercise: Shrinking Platform
This is a simple yet challenging teambuilding game which puts pressure on a group to solve a problem as the clock is ticking. The shared problem solving can help to improve relationships and encour...
Team Building Exercise: Make a Shape
This is a physical team buiding exercise that encourages self-organisation within a team when confronted with a challenge. You can test the group to see how quickly they can come up with a self-ass...
Team Building Exercise: Someone is a...
This is a suitable exercise for getting people in a team to express their feelings about each other but in a very indirect and controlled way. It also gives delegates a chance to see how others thi...
Memory Exercise: Lists versus Images
We all deal with lists almost on a daily basis. However, as we all have discovered, lists can be difficult to memorise and remember. Research shows that we have significant problems remembering a l...
Creativity Exercise: What Is That!?
This is powerful exercise in helping people to think out of the box and become more creative. The setup primes people to think creatively about everyday objects and design their own version. This h...
Feedback Exercise: Share Your Thoughts
The purpose of this team building activity is to encourage delegates to share their feelings about the organisation they are in. Using a systematic approach, delegates get to talk about their posit...
Memory Exercise: Did You Catch That?
This exercise helps delegates to practice focusing, paying attention to detail and memorising. It can be easily customised to suite specific needs or even turned into a competition to address team ...
Creativity Exercise: Design a Game
This is a fairly flexible team building activity that you can use to improve delegates’ creativity, decision making and team working skills. Effectively you get the groups to design a game in the g...
Non-Verbal Awareness Exercise: Use Your Senses
The purpose of this activity is to help delegates examine their non-verbal and non-visual senses and build their confidence in sensing and reading others. It demonstrates the power of people's cons...
Creativity and Sales Exercise: Sell a Lot of Stuff
This is a creativity exercise in a form of a template that you can customise in a variety ways. The format is that the group comes into possession of a large number of a certain used old product. T...
