Leadership and Personal Development Group Activities

Help your team practice their pitching skills while having fun with this improv activity perfect for remote teams or virtual meetings.

Organize the day's meeting by co-creating and assigning roles among participants.

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".

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

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).

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

This activity supports participants to reflect on a question and generate their own solutions using simple principles of active listening and peer coaching. It’s an excellent introduction to active listening but can also be used with groups that are already familiar with it. Participants work in groups of three and take turns being: “the subject”, the listener, and the observer.

You can help people access hidden knowledge such as feelings, attitudes, and patterns that are difficult to express with words. When people are tired, their brains are full, and they have reached the limits of logical thinking, you can help them evoke ideas that lie outside logical, step-by-step understanding of what is possible. Stories about individual or group transformations can be told with five easy-to-draw symbols that have universal meanings. The playful spirit of drawing together signals that more is possible and many new answers are expected. Drawing Together cuts through the culture of overreliance on what people say and write that constrains the emergence of novelty. It also provides a new avenue of expression for some people whose ideas would otherwise not surface. This structure brings to life LS principle #7, Emphasize Possibilities: Believe Before You See.

A bingo game that is played throughout a live session using common virtual session occurrences. 

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). 

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