
Leadership and Personal Development Group Activities


The Secret Profession
The art of questioning to better listen. 2 rounds for the same team to discover the secret profession of the facilitator (or one of the participants).

Feed forward
An engaging variation on a feedback activity that focuses on future changes and positive action, rather than dwelling on what went wrong.

5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
They say “A Calm Mind is an Effective Mind” and with a calmer mind, you can better explore those challenges in life with calmness and centered awareness.
Constant change, learning new things, and uncertainty are a few of the situations that can cause even the calmest people to feel some stress.
This 5-step exercise can support people in stressful times by helping them to get grounded in the present moment when your focus is distracted by unhelpful thoughts.

Call To Action Follow Up
Used as a post-session follow up or multiple session activity, participants share their action plan or project success. Results can be posted and discussed on a shared network or brought to a later live session (such as a review session or informal group catch up).

Perservarence
When does perseverance become foolhardiness? Here's a jolt that explores this question.

Roles in a meeting
Organize the day's meeting by co-creating and assigning roles among participants.
Elevator Pitch
De kern van je boodschap in 1 minuut kunnen presenteren zonder ondersteuning van audiovisuele middelen.
In dit voorbeeld presenteren studenten binnen de cursus "De Handelend Mens" een voorbereidende opdracht aan elkaar. Op basis van deze pitches worden onderzoeksonderwerpen bepaald en onderzoeksgroepen gevormd.

Features
Understanding and analyzing a piece of advice are important activities. Here is a game that requires the participants to analyze the features associated with different pieces of advice.

Transcribe Me
Spoken activities such as presentations or role play conversations are transcribed then analyzed.

Forming a buddy group
In large gatherings that will be stable for a few days or more, you can combine the benefits of having a high number of attendees (e.g. more minds at work!) with the supportive feel of a small group by creating "home groups" or "buddy groups".

Alligator River
An exercise designed to investigate value based conflict, decision making, highlights the challenges of establishing right and wrong with different perspectives.