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Draw on the best-of-the-best work team activities and exercises to make learning more innovative, effective, and fun. Experiential training events are one of the best ways to create long-term, memorable learning. Moreover, workplace team-building activities draw participants out of their everyday tasks. Separating workers from their daily duties can reflect non-judgmentally on their inherent tendencies, roles, communication styles, leadership techniques, and more.
Take-off – The Versatile Paper Airplane
When I read this idea I was struck by how versatile it could be. A great way to get your group up and moving, getting to know one another, and digging into their goals or the session content. The idea is that participants create a paper aircraft. They write their name on one wing and… Read More
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Five Minute Competitive Exercises
In our LinkedIN group, Effective and Fun Training Techniques, Noreen Clifford recently posed a question about competitive games: Here’s a challenge! I’m looking for a 5 minute competitive exercise that gets people working together, but also challenges them. So many great ideas have come ... Read More- +44
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Roundtable Roulette Small Group Chats
Last week, as a member of the National E-tailing and Mailing Organization of America (NEMOA), I conducted a breakfast roundtable for a group of small business owners. Typically at breakfast roundtables, you sit with one table of eight to ten people and stay there for the duration of the event. You... Read More- +11
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Ready-to-Play training Games
Although Trainers Warehouse doesn’t focus on many content-specific board games, I’ve come across a few really good ones recently. I’ll continue to add to this list as I learn of more. Admittedly, these aren’t all “Board” games, but they’re off-the-shelf, r... Read More- +11
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10 Easy Appreciation Exercises
Posted by guest blogger, Betty Lochner, Cornerstone Coaching & Training It may sound overly simple, but adding purposeful appreciation towards others can be one of the most powerful communication tools you can hone. People want and need to feel appreciated [whether you’re in a training s... Read More- +19
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Activities
Conflict resolution is a hot topic, whether you teach negotiation, team-building, leadership, or communication skills. Here are a few conflict resolution games that will help you quickly cut to the core and identify challenges and processes to manage difficult relationships. Each of the conflict res... Read More- +58
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Go Old School with Post Card Reminders
As an advocate and frequent user of the US postal service, I’ve been closely following the news about their financial woes and efforts to fix it. And yet . . . when I think about opening MY mailbox each afternoon, I still experience a small rush of anticipation. Will I find a letter, postcard,... Read More- +2
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Arm "Wrestle" Exercise
Many years ago, I taught Negotiation and Conflict Resolution with a group called “Conflict Management, Inc.” They were an offshoot of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Every so often I’m asked, “can you recommend an activity or icebreaker that will help launch a soft-skills ... Read More- +53
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Gamification for Training
I recently came across the term and book Gamification, by Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham, which seems to have taken the marketing world by storm. The word refers to “the use of game play elements for non-game applications.” Companies are using it to make their websites, social medi... Read More- +31
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Remote Icebreakers & Team Building Activities
Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, trainers looking to make their webinars as interactive as their live training sessions asked about virtual icebreakers. I initially put this blog post together several years ago, but am updating it now to reflect new ideas and new resources that have become availab... Read More- +51
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WORK TEAM ACTIVITIES FOR TRAINERS
Subsequent to any training or learning game, groups should take time to reflect. A thorough debrief should cover a range of topics, including how: the game dynamics made participants feel, strategies created unanticipated roadblocks, and communication styles led to success. At the end of the debrief, the group should reflect on how their game experience mirrors the "real world.”
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