Problem Solving

This deceptively simple puzzle is used to improve creative thinking skills, problem solving & innovation skills by raising awareness about benefits and limitations of using previous experience in new situations. Used to examine and challenge thinking patterns of individuals and...

Our popular creative thinking exercise to develop creativity and innovation to illustrate "thinking outside the box". It is a challenging way of encouraging learners to look at things in a different way: seeing beyond the obvious problem and the solutions...

The Colourblind® game develops effective communication and team building skills and helps teams recognise problems caused with imprecise communication and language. It is a verbal problem solving experiential learning activity that is used to improve communication & listening skills, and is...

Workstations is a popular and challenging team problem solving game with powerful messages about managing team communication as teams are unable to write any information down. All communication is verbal; therefore, strategic thinking skills is essential. Workstations is a team...

The Webmaster® activity uses collaboration between teams to develop time management skills through effective communication, planning processes and time restrictions. Webmaster is a large scale experiential problem solving activity to develop collaboration across teams. Participants are required to assemble a...

Minefield is a collaboration and negotiation problem solving activity, where by four sub groups compete against each other to spend as little possible of a given budget to win a bonus. Winning this ‘bonus’ is not feasible without use of...

Innovation Images focuses on creative thinking and innovation skills, how to retain information using the primacy and recency effect, and use this information for effective presentation skills. The activity is a set of simple, but carefully selected images that can be...

Broken Square's success is dependent upon building relationships between team members, and an awareness of what others need and a willingness to offer resources without any verbal communication. Hollow Square is a rapid introduction to the skills of planning and...

Helium stick (aka magic cane, magic stick, lighter than air, Let go my ego) is a very simple, but powerful activity that helps a group to explore what to do when things don’t go quite as well as intended! It...

Teamwork and Teamplay Cards is one of the best value sets of teamwork activities we have seen, with areas for problem solving, team development, and ice breaker games. With this deck of cards, you can facilitate over a dozen powerful...

Counter Intelligence is a challenging problem solving group activity that allows team members to use a range of communication and logic skills. Cards with information are dispersed between the team members, therefore each individual has information which contributes to solving...

Colourblind® Plus is a team building and communication activity designed to develop these skills between small or large teams. Containing three verbal communications activities in one package - a paired, a small group, and a challenging large group activity – this...