Session Shakers is packed with 50 innovative energisers and icebreakers to help your people learn. Short bursts of fun get learning messages across in a memorable and stimulating way. And participants return to the main training session revitalised and ready to learn more. Add variety to syndicate work by incorporating these fun and practical energisers and icebreakers into your learning mix.
Each activity takes between 5 and 20 minutes. They're great for starting off a training session, for reviving flagging concentration and for illustrating key learning messages in a memorable way.
Process applications include:
- awakening competitive instincts
- building trust
- dealing with group-think
- defusing difficult situations
- examining team roles
- examining team support structures
- facilitating feedback
- group cohesion
- managing conflict
- relieving tension
List of Activities:
1. Creative Leaps
Dealing with 'groupthink'; group cohesion.
2. Spot the Difference
Relationship building.
3. Tension Reliever
Relieving tension; building trust.
4. Tower of Pegs
Closing the session; energising the group, forming or regrouping teams; improving team communication.
5. Yes/No Exercise
Managing conflict; relieving tension.
6. Clothes Line
Forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles; examining team support structures.
7. Distinguish the Behaviour
Relationship building; improving team communication; forming or regrouping teams; examining team support structures.
8. Doctors and Nurses
Building trust; forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles.
9. Fill the Bottle
Forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles; improving team communication.
10. Flour Castle
Managing conflict; examining team support structures; relieving tension.
11. Hole in My Bucket
Improving team communication; energising the group; forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles.
12. Icing the Cake
Closing the session; group cohesion; defusing difficult situations.
13. Light My Candle
Improving team communication; forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles.
14. Message in a Bottle
Relationship building; managing conflict; energising the group; examining team support structures.
15. Observer's Feedback
Facilitating feedback.
16. Reflected Feelings
Facilitating feedback; improving team communication; building trust.
17. Relaxation
Relieving tension; building trust.
18. Silent Listener
Improving team communication.
19. Trust Me!
Building trust; relationship building; managing conflict; defusing difficult situations.
20. Weigh the Object
Group cohesion; forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles; examining team support structures; improving team communication.
21. 9 to 5
Forming or regrouping teams; examining team support structures.
22. Brain-Teasers
Forming or regrouping teams; energising the group; examining team support structures; improving team communication.
23. Draw My House
Relationship building; building trust.
24. Famous Partners
Forming or regrouping teams; relationship building.
25. Fashion Show
Closing the session; building trust; relieving tension; examining team roles; forming or regrouping teams; improving team communication.
26. Heraldic Shield
Relationship building; facilitating feedback; building trust.
27. Insights
Building trust; group cohesion; relationship building; equalising or levelling people's power within the group.
28. Light My Fire
Energising the group; forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles.
29. Magazine Madness
Energising the group; closing the session; defusing a difficult situation; building trust; relieving tension.
30. Signal Flash
Closing the session; forming or regrouping teams.
31. Spy Master
Improving team communication; examining team support structures; forming or regrouping teams; energising the group.
32. String-A-Long
Relationship building; examining team support structures; managing conflict.
33. Susceptibility to Stress
Building trust; examining team support structures; relationship building; group cohesion.
34. Team Behaviours
Improving team communication; facilitating feedback; group cohesion; managing conflict; relationship building; examining team support structures.
35. What Is Our Value?
Examining team roles; examining team support structures; forming or regrouping teams; improving team communication.
36. Assertive Roles
Facilitating feedback; forming or regrouping teams; managing conflict.
37. Balloon Debates
Group cohesion; managing conflict; forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles; awakening people's competitive instinct; facilitating feedback; improving team communication.
38. Factory Floor
Forming or regrouping teams.
39. Guess the Object
Forming or regrouping teams; improving team communication.
40. Home through the Maze
Improving team communication; forming or regrouping teams; examining team support structures.
41. Identifying Behaviours
Improving team communication.
42. Name on Your Head
Forming or regrouping teams; examining team support structures; relationship building.
43. Reading Body Language
Facilitating feedback; improving team communication; building trust.
44. Self-Propelled Vehicle
Forming or regrouping teams; examining team roles; improving team communication; examining team support structures; relationship building; managing conflict.
45. Shake Up
Forming or regrouping teams.
46. Summarising
Forming or regrouping teams; facilitating feedback; improving team communication.
47. Team Fishbowl
Forming or regrouping teams; facilitating feedback; improving team communication; group cohesion; examining team roles.
48. Tennis Balls
Forming or regrouping teams; improving team communication; examining team roles.
49. Voice Exercise
Facilitating feedback; forming or regrouping teams; managing conflict.
50. Which Cage Are You In?
Forming or regrouping teams; relationship building; facilitating feedback; managing conflict.
