Saturday, November 18, 2006

Games for trainers

It can happen for you to go at the seminar and then...people are sleeping. The only thing that you can do is to motivate them for some games. We call them "icebreaker"

The idea that we developed were the following:
1. Ask them to get up and to present themselves. After that make some exercises with them: clap hands, stay in one foot, etc
2.Ask them to discuss and prepare a speech in the topic "my favorite"(food, hairstyle..etc)
3. Make a round circle in the back of the room and each member will stay in there and they will do massage one to the other while moving in the circle.
4. Make each of them take a peace of paper and put it in their back. Each colleague will go around and will write on the others back his feelings related to him (only positive ones)


The second strategy is to start "group discussion" - there is no other way to obtain the views of all members. For that, the best solutions are:

- divide the participants into groups of no more than ten

- give them a few minutes to debate

- call at the end ach group spokesman in order to report the results

Also, the third solution is "brainstorming". It is useful on large or small meetings, to stimulate creativity on the participants.

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