Virtual Bingo
A bingo game that is played throughout a live session using common virtual session occurrences.
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Awareness Circle
This activity helps participants to get-to-know each other without saying a word.
Quick Change
This opening activity works well for topics that deal with the challenges of change. It is adapted from an activity developed and used by Crestcom, a management and leadership development company.
Leadership Advice from Your Role Model
This structured sharing activity provides a faster, cheaper, and better alternative to buying and reading a lot of books: You tap into the wisdom of the group—and of their role models.
20/20 Vision
The 20/20 Vision game is about getting group clarity around which projects or initiatives should be more of a priority than others. Because employees’ attention is so often divided among multiple projects, it can be refreshing to refocus and realign more intently with the projects that have the biggest bang for the buck. And defining the “bang” together helps ensure that the process of prioritization is quality.
Stress Balls
Understanding the importance of communication and teamwork is an important requirement for high performance teams of knowledge workers. This exercise is an effective energizer that requires communication and teamwork.
Ask participants to form a circle and throw a ball around to simulate the movement of a message. Change different variables such as speed, quantity, and complexity to create a mess.
What are you bringing to the meeting
A good way to start a meeting/workshop/training to see how participants are feeling, what might be distractions that they are carrying with themselves into the room and how low/high their energy level is.
The 5 Whys
This simple and powerful method is useful for getting to the core of a problem or challenge. As the title suggests, the group defines a problems, then asks the question “why” five times, often using the resulting explanation as a starting point for creative problem solving.
Life map
With this activity the participants get to know each other on a deeper level.
Everyday Hassles
It is a great activity to show participants that it is plausible to change our automatic behaviours and reactions to annoying situations.
Who/What/When Matrix
With Who/What/When matrix, you can connect people with clear actions they have defined and have committed to.
Three wishes
The activity serves as a brief energiser during a workshop, and helps to get creativity flowing. At the end of this method, each team member will be a little more familiar with each other.