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Written by expert practitioners, these practical suggestions for group and individual activities will help you to plan and deliver rewarding training.

The use of these training activities is governed by our Terms and conditions and they are available to CIPD members only.

Additional training resources in the CIPD Library


Members can also use and borrow from the large collection of training manuals kept in the CIPD Library. These cover general-purpose activities, such as ice-breakers or team building games, through to materials suited to courses on specific topics, such as diversity issues or performance appraisal. For more information on what's available, contact the Library Enquiries Team: tel +44 (0)208 612 6210 or by email at lis@cipd.co.uk.


A-Z of training activities


Action planning for teams
Suggests steps a facilitator might take to help teams reach an effective action plan after a training session.

Active debriefing
Considers the benefits of debriefing at the end of a training session, including key techniques, creative ways of recording information, and handling tension and antagonism.

Activities for training impact
Provides four energising activities that can be used across a variety of training courses.

Appraisal: a role play exercise
A combined role play and case study of an appraisal where the manager has difficulty in identifying development needs for the appraisee.

Appraisal: getting managers' buy-in
Examines why line managers view staff appraisal as a low priority. Offers ideas to show the benefits, and a questionnaire to explore managers' attitudes.

Assertiveness training activities
A series of short activities to challenge attitudes and thinking about assertive behaviour, plus tips on running training sessions on assertiveness.

Assessing your coaching capability
An exercise for clarifying the role of coaches. Includes facilitator's notes, briefing notes and handouts, and forms for 'learners', 'observers' and 'coaches'.

Clarifying performance expectations
A short participative exercise to help managers clarify the performance they expect from their staff.

Creative problem-solving exercise
Describes a problem-solving exercise called Methodical Madness which could also be used for team-building or energising a group.

Creativity exercise
Describes three approaches to enable participants to express themselves.

Customer satisfaction: a team exercise
Provides a team exercise for defining, developing and enhancing quality of service.

Customer services training: good communication
Introduces the subject, and offers exercises including a role-play that can be used in training courses, group meetings or one-to-one sessions.

Customer services training: handling customers
Introduces the subject, and offers exercises and a case study that can be used in training courses, group meetings or one-to-one sessions.

Disciplinary interviews: a role play exercise
Gives a detailed outline of three specific role plays for potential disciplinary scenarios which can be adapted for use in different work situations.

Diversity awareness exercises
Gives three exercises to promote diversity awareness focusing on the broad context.

Getting teams started
Contains an exercise which uses a discarding process to identify key values and promote team discussion of personal and group values.

Goal setting in a one-to-one coaching environment
Offers exercises to discover an individual's self-purpose. It explains the SMART goal-setting technique with another brief exercise to identify goals.

How to get managers' support for learning
Offers ten practical tips to get across the importance of learning and development to line managers.

Ice breakers: energising mid-course
Provides four 'ice breaker' activities for use within a training course.

Ice breakers: starting with impact
Provides three 'ice breaker' activities for introducing a variety of training courses.

Improving as an appraiser
Contains an exercise to help appraisal and performance management course participants identify their goals and get more out of the training.

Induction exercises
Gives four exercises which can be used as part of an induction programme, all of which are suitable for group or one-to-ne sessions.

Interpersonal skills: self-assessment questionnaire
Contains a questionnaire designed to identify and prioritise interpersonal skills development.

Lateral thinking technique 
Offers a simple technique to unlock creativity and to turn problems from obstacles into goals.

Leadership or management? The differences
Describes an exercise which can be used to highlight the differences between leadership and management.

Managing projects
Gives a series of five short interactive sessions which could be included in a short course or management development programmes.

Positive feedback skills
Considers the problems of giving feedback and identifes key skills. Includes exercises to help learners understand and develop these skills.

Role play as an effective learning tool
Reviews the role play method and discusses issues such as group size, time required and use of video. Includes a case study with an exercise.

Running effective training reviews
Explores factors relating to a training review covering planning, achievable outcomes, the facilitator's role and techniques for eliciting useable responses.

Self-evaluation for trainers
Outlines the importance of self-evaluation for trainers and ways to achieve it constructively. Provides three assessment questionnaires and a framework for action planning.

Team activities for training impact
Provides three stimulating team activities that can be used on any training session.

Time management exercises
Provides three exercises which can be run in small groups or on a one-to-one basis, and some golden rules for better time management.

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