Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story with Three Images

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...

Learning Exercise: Rewind the Course

Learning Exercise: Rewind the Course

This is an effective exercise to help delegates review the topics covered in the course systematically at the end of a course. It is designed to be participatory rather than competitive and the mai...

Icebreaker: This Reminds Me of…

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...

Debate Exercise: Express Your Views and Persuade People

Debate Exercise: Express Your Views and Persuade People

Being able to have an opinion about important subjects and defend that position is an incredibly important skill in life. Often, we come across such potentially heated debates during the course of ...

Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image

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...

Team Building Exercise: Sort the Cards

Team Building Exercise: Sort the Cards

In this team building exercise teams work together on a common problem. The problem is intentionally designed to be simple to understand though when several people are involved it may not be as obv...

Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery

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...

Marketing Exercise: Learn from Good, Bad and Ugly Advertisements

Marketing Exercise: Learn from Good, Bad and Ugly Advertisements

This exercise helps to develop delegates’ observational skills on advertisement and marketing and also helps them design their own ads. It creates discussions on what works and what does not in des...

Learning Exercise: Anonymous Review

Learning Exercise: Anonymous Review

This exercise takes advantage of social proof to illustrate the importance of topics learned during the course. It is ideal to run this exercise at the end of a course to review what has been cover...

Google Ngram: Ever Wondered When a Given Word Became Popular?

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

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...

Team Building Exercise: More of, Less of and the Same

Team Building Exercise: More of, Less of and the Same

You can use this teambuilding exercise to help delegates discover the strengths and weaknesses of their team. The exercise encourages individual thinking without pressure while at the same time hel...

Team Building Exercise: Pass the Tyre

Team Building Exercise: Pass the Tyre

This is a great teambuilding exercise that helps to cover several areas on leadership, teamwork and problem solving. You can run it like a competitive game for a large group. Allow the delegates go...

Icebreaker: Who is That

Icebreaker: Who is That

Use this icebreaker to help delegates get to know each other better. You can also use the training exercises as a test to see who knows most about others. It is fairly easy to run. You can customis...

Train the Trainer Exercise: Review Learning

Train the Trainer Exercise: Review Learning

Use this exercise to help the delegates review what they have learned in the course. The aim is to make the review process entertaining and memorable. It is also designed to be competitive so that ...

Marketing Exercise: A Game with Google Trends

Marketing Exercise: A Game with Google Trends

This exercise is based on the use of modern tools that can give us an insight on people’s current interests. The exercise provides a template for a variety of exercises that you can conduct based o...

Goal Setting Exercise: Role Models

Goal Setting Exercise: Role Models

This exercise is ideal to explore role models and the importance and significant of having one. Instead of trying to explain directly how useful role models are, the exercise takes an indirect appr...

Creative Writing Exercise: The Teacher Learns

Creative Writing Exercise: The Teacher Learns

In this creative writing exercise, delegates get to write a short piece about an interaction between a teacher and a student where the teacher learns something from the student. This is of course c...