Circles in the air
Draw circles up in the air with the index finger and observe the way the direction of the circles changes, as we change the vantage point.
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Coat of Arms
Coat of Arms exercise provides a way for participants to introduce themselves and their colleagues, particularly for groups who think they already know each other very well. Almost invariably participants discover something about their colleagues of which they previously had no idea. Occasionally this revelation has an immediate and direct application to another participant's current project or challenge.
Because this activity forces people to use drawings rather than words, it is particularly useful as a dual-purpose introductory exercise in training sessions that deal with such topics as innovation, creativity, and problem-solving.
Doodling Together
Create wild, weird and often funny postcards together & establish a group's creative confidence.
Empathy Walk
An Empathy Walk develops your capacity to “hold space” for someone who is very different from you and establish a relationship across a significant boundary. It is adapted from the work of MIT Professor Emeritus Ed Schein, who has shaped the field of organizational culture, learning, and leadership over the past 50 years.
Happiness exercise
This exercise is a simple application of the principles of Appreciative Inquiry.
Human Spectrogram
Applying a linear scale to gather a diversity of perspectives, opinions and responses.
Hybrid scavenger hunt
Form hybrid groups combining in-person and remote participants and leverage the different possibilities of the different settings in a fun scavenger hunt.
Introduce yourself by building your personality
We can express our personality in several ways. We can leave the traditional ways (e.g. telling the basic things about ourselves), and through creation, we can introduce ourselves on a more creative way.
Job Description in 99 Words
Ask the participants to write what their job means to them in exactly 99 words (no more, no less), and then divide participants to explore and discuss the perception of their jobs.
Kritzedula
A short visual exercise from the Kaos Pilot School.
Madlib Image GPT Warmup
A madlib style image generator GPT for warmups and a fun intro to custom GPTs
Make it Rhyme!
Even with established teams, it’s important to get people into the holiday mood and encourage creativity and collaboration.
Assign people into pairs or triads and each pair/triad needs to write one pair of rhyme for the music of a popular song. In this holiday-themed version, we'll ask participants to create a version of Jingle bells.
Whatever the occasion or song, it's a nice twist if they incorporate something in the lyrics that is related to your own company and culture.