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.

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 extract from Rudyard Kipling’s poem in “The Elephant’s Child” literally OPENS up opportunities to practice a key skill as part of a communication skills course as well as allied skills in active listening and observation.

Powerpoint Karaoke is an improv game where volunteers take turns presenting slide decks that they've never seen before, in front of a live audience.