From ice breakers and discussion starters to case studies and workshops, the training activities in the HRDQ Activity Collections are a great way to provide fun and engaging experiences for your team, supplement your curriculum and demonstrate training messages. All are fully reproducible, and many are available in both print and digital formats.
Personality Style Toolkit This collection of 20 fast and fun training exercises uses such methods as self-reflection and role play to illustrate how personality style impacts key skills such as team building, communication, coaching, sales, and time management -- plus answer the question, how does my personality style affect me at work? |
SkillBuilders: 50 Customer Service Activities Spice up your next customer service training program with this creative, engaging, and innovative collection of skill development activities. The activities in this collection stimulate discussion and learning. Quick and to the point, the SkillBuilders activities help participants to develop the skills necessary to providing quality service. |
Team Development Activities For Trainers A collection of engaging activities addressing the skills most critical to team development. Enjoy exploring issues surrounding communication, delegation, assertiveness, decision-making and more, in a way your participants can effectively apply to their work. |
More on Training Activity CollectionsTraining activities at work can help create more engaged, satisfied employees, providing an opportunity to learn in a comfortable and fun environment. There are many benefits to using activities at work, like better absorbed knowledge, more collaboration and cooperation between staff members, more ideas brought up by individuals, and more camaraderie within teams.
Management can add value to activities by using techniques that touch the head, heart, and skills at the same time. This holistic approach demands an underpinning of theory (for understanding), personal learning (for developing emotions), and practice (for developing skills). There are many ways of meeting these objectives, but the structured experience is the most convenient and powerful.
A structured experience is a vehicle for learning. Its structure permits a focus on objectives or an area of concern. The experience part engages the individual. Since the objective is to educate several senses at once, it is extremely important that the individual is fully involved.
Unfortunately, structured experiences have become commonplace and may become filler activities that management trainers use to simply entertain rather than inform and teach. The ubiquitous nature of structured experiences blunts their power as a learning tool. Like any overused activity, efficiency is lost unless great care is taken to select the "right" learning device and position it for maximum effect. Contact HRDQ for assistance selecting the right training products for your needs.
The right activity can produce great results. With carefully designed training activities, participants can dive into a topic and come up with solutions in a specific environment. They can then take what they have learned and apply it to their own work outside of the activity. There are many different kinds of activities, but they all have one thing in common—they are essential tools for employee learning and development.
Exploring Personal Styles (EPS) helps participants discover and appreciate their differences. Generate compelling group discussions and insight into the unique qualities of each personality style...
Time spent in meetings can be the most productive part of your day, but only if you first understand what goes into a successful meeting....
TeamBook is a collection of ideas and exercises for use by trainers or program designers who are engaged in the effort of helping work groups...
Communication is the foundation of all human interaction — personal and professional. It also serves as the basis for all human resource development programs. Unfortunately,...
Most managers view leadership as an intangible, unattainable skill — one best left to those at the top of the corporate ladder. However, leadership occurs...
Your team is floundering, morale is low - you're not sure what the problem is, but you know you need to do something fast. How...
If you were asked to facilitate a training session, but you have no idea where to start, reach for the Facilitator's Toolkit. This collection compiles over 40...
The word “stress” is on everyone’s lips. We now know from numerous studies that stress affects all people, regardless of role, rank, status, or position...
Sales training activities are essential for every productive sales team. After all, there's much more to effective selling than just having a pitch and closing....
Inject "Impro Energy" into your next training session with 58 1/2 Ways to Improvise in Training. Defined as a current that runs between participants, you'll...
A picture tells a thousand words. This cliché is true even in the training room. Challenge your participants to expand their minds through drawing, writing,...
There's no doubt that one of the best ways to drive home key learning points is through experience -- and the Personality Toolkit does just...
Challenge your participants' imaginations with TeamBuilders: 10 Adventures in Working Together, a new collection of learning events that encourage the exploration of team skills through...
Why spend your valuable time writing case studies when HRDQ has done the dirty work for you? The Compact Cases Activity Collection is a customizable and reproducible...
Designed by evaluation expert Donald Kirkpatrick, the Kirkpatrick Express Evaluation Toolkit provides the resources you need to evaluate training outcomes, analyze, and communicate your results,...
Most people need to talk on the phone at work – especially customer service employees. Customer service is of the utmost importance to a business,...
The SkillBuilders 50 Customer Service Activities Collection offers activities designed to strengthen the effectiveness of your customer service representatives. Overview Spice up your next customer...
Are you desperately in need of a fresh collection of team development activities? Look no further! The Team Development Activities for Trainers is a collection of 59 games and activities...
Your participants return from lunch with a sleepy glaze in their eyes. Don't despair - energize them! The icebreakers in the Energizers Activity Book are beneficial at...
Every managerial action signifies a meaningful decision. These underlying actions define the effectiveness of the organization. With HRDQ's digital activity collection 25 Problem Solving & Decision Making...
