500 year gap
In pairs, one person describes a modern appliance to someone from 500 years ago
Library of facilitation techniques
Communication Workshop Activities
Group activities and exercises to improve communication skills.
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Online Meeting Etiquette
Set the expectations for behavior and conduct you have for participants at the beginning of your online meeting with the Online Meeting Etiquette checklist.
Friendly Flyers
This is an exercise to build up relational and communication skills. While creating paper flyers in teams, you learn about your group members one-on-one as you build paper planes with them. Afterwards, you get to know more about the rest of your group when you play a personality-matching guessing activity.
Celebrity Party
Great activity to help people warm up in a new environment.
Bright Blurry Blind
This is an exercise for creating a sense of community, support intra and inter departmental communication and breakdown of “Silos” within organizations. It allows participants to openly speak about current issues within the team and organization.
Broken Email
This a simple game in which participants play in teams and their task is to replicate an image shown to the first team member as they are set up in a chain. The winner is the first team to correctly reproduce the "email"
Group Push-Up
In this exercise the group is given a task to find a way to get the entire group safely off of the ground with only hands touching ground.
Back-2-Back Drawing
This is a communication exercise when participants in pairs have to use only verbal communication to help their pair to draw a specific picture. There are several variations of the exercise detailed in the instructions.
Go!
This exercise creates an opportunity to talk about team accountability and communication and paying attention to what's not happening (as opposed to what is happening) by having the group move fluidly as one person leaves a place and another enters their spot.
You! Patterns
Establish pattern to pass in a circle. Create a category that each person has a contribution (ie. breakfast cereals). Add another category.
Mirror Exercise
In pairs in front of the class to demonstrate, then everyone.
The 500-Year-Gap Conversation/Time Traveler
In pairs, participant A attempts to communicate the use and value of a modern-day object to participant B, who plays the role of someone from 500 years ago.