Remote pencil pitch
Help your team practice their pitching skills while having fun with this improv activity perfect for remote teams or virtual meetings.
Library of facilitation techniques
Leadership and Personal Development Group Activities
Activities to support personal development and train new soft skills. Help your participants to reflect, grow self-awareness and learn new interpersonal skills.
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Roles in a meeting
Organize the day's meeting by co-creating and assigning roles among participants.
Decision Rehearsal
Turn one workshop principle into a realistic decision, then revisit it twice with a changed situation. This facilitator-led exercise includes a worked delegation example and can run with paper and ordinary email; no special software or purchase is required.
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".
Managing behaviours
Increase your communication skills. Role play to help you recognize and manage different behaviours in a virtual environment (or not!)
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).
Active Listening
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.
Alligator River
An exercise designed to investigate value based conflict, decision making, highlights the challenges of establishing right and wrong with different perspectives.
Before you press Publish
A workshop announcement is ready, but the room and the number of places are wrong. Teams repair the draft, decide who can release it, then test what happens when new information arrives after approval.
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).
Explore your Values
Your Values is an exercise for participants to explore what their most important values are. It’s done in an intuitive and rapid way to encourage participants to follow their intuitive feeling rather than over-thinking and finding the “correct” values. It is a good exercise to use to initiate reflection and dialogue around personal values.
Feedback: Start, Stop, Continue
Regular, effective feedback is one of the most important ingredients in building constructive relationships and thriving teams. Openness creates trust and trust creates more openness. Feedback exercises aim to support groups to build trust and openness and for individuals to gain self-awareness and insight. Feedback exercises should always be conducted with thoughtfulness and high awareness of group dynamics. This is an exercise for groups or teams that have worked together for some time and are familiar with giving and receiving feedback. It uses the words “stop”, “start” and “continue” to guide the feedback messages.