There are FOUR kinds of participants.• There are PRISONERS, who are there against their will

(usually) because their boss told them to show up.

• There are VACATIONERS, who are there because training is like having time off from work - they are relaxed and (hopefully) refreshed and renewed as a result of their attendance.

• There are CONSUMERS, who are trainees who have a specific learning agenda ("really want to learn how to coach my subordinates"), and

• There are ADVENTURERS, who are like Consumers without a narrow, specific agenda.

Choose Which role(s) most closely resembles you?

On a blank piece of paper draw a pig. Do not look at your neighbor's pig Their drawing will serve to interpret

your personalities. The results are as follows: (Don't shoot

the messenger, I didn't draw your pig!)

The Pig Test

The Pig Test• If the pig is drawn toward the top of the paper you are a

positive & optimistic person.• If the pig is drawn towards the middle of the page you are a

realist.• If the pig is drawn toward the bottom of the page, you are

pessimistic & and have a tendency to behave negatively.

• If the pig is facing left, you believe in tradition, are friendly, and remember dates and birthdays.

• If the picture is facing forward (towards you) you are direct, enjoy playing the devil's advocate and neither fear nor avoid discussion.

• If the pig is facing right, you are innovative and active, but have neither a sense of family, nor remember dates.

• If the pig is drawn with many details, you are analytical, cautious, and distrustful.

• If the pig is drawn with few details, you are emotional, naive, care little for detail, and take risks.

The Pig Test

• If the pig is drawn with four legs showing, you are secure, stubborn, and stick to your ideals.

• If the pig is drawn with less than four legs showing, you are insecure, or are living through a period of major change

• The larger the pig's ears you have drawn, the better listener you are.

• And last but not least . . . the longer the pig's tail you have drawn, the more satisfied you are with the quality of your sex life.

Non-verbal birthday lineup

Everyone to line up according to the month and date of birth without any

talking.

Shoe Pile

• Everyone take off one of your shoes and throw it into a big pile at the centre.

• Each person now to pick up a different shoe from the pile and finds the person it belongs to.

Cinderella• Break into two groups. Each one of you find a partner

and have these pairs sit next to one another in a circle.

• Now that everybody has a partner, take blindfolds and blindfold one of the partners in each pair. Once at least one person per pair is blindfolded, tell the non blindfolded person to take off one shoe and throw it in the middle of the circle.

• When the facilitator says go, all the blindfolded people have to go to the middle and bring back the right shoe that belongs to their partner. Your partner can scream and yell from their seats, but cannot touch you or physically guide you to their shoe.

The blindfolded person must bring back the right shoe for the game to be stopped and Cinderella to live happily ever after

Clump

Everybody mingles, constantly moving until the facilitator shouts out a number.

All participants must now try to get into groups of that number.

Any group/s that don’t succeed are out

Human KnotForm circles of 18-20 each. Stand as close as

possible.

Reach out your arms so that all hands are jumbled and intertwining.

Now, grab one other hand, but not the persons' next to you.

You are now a Human Knot and must untangle yourselves into one circle or a link of circles without letting go of their hands

Truth or lie?On a piece of paper write down your

name and 2 things that are true about you and one thing that is not.

Get the rest of the team to read the paper and guess which one is the lie

Short-Circuit Your Brain

                                                                                                                                                                                        

                              Look at the chart above and say the COLOR of the word,

not the word itself. Why is it so difficult? Because the right half of your brain is trying to say the color, while the

left side of your brain is trying to say the word

A REBUS is a picture representation of a name, work, or phrase. Each "rebus" puzzle box below portrays a common

word or phrase. Can you guess what it is?

Head over Heels

REBUS

Point Blank Range

A walk in the park

REBUS

He came out of nowhere

REBUS

Contract extension

REBUS

Shifting Gears

REBUS

Pen is mightier than the sword

REBUS

Temporary Setback

REBUS

Sitting on top of the world

REBUS

History repeats itself

REBUS

Update

REBUS

Palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence which reads the same backward or forward.

The one above goes a step further, since it also reads the same upside down when written in

capital letters

NOON

What word, when written in capital letters,is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?

PALINDROME

Madam in Eden, I am Adam

How did Adam use a palindrome to introduce himself to Eve when they first met?

PALINDROME

Tongue Twisters

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits

Tongue Twisters

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry

Tongue Twisters

Unique New York

Tongue Twisters

Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

Tongue Twisters

Three free throws.

Rhyming Buddies

A comical rabbit?

A Funny Bunny

Rhyming Buddies

A young person who cannot be tamed?

A Wild Child

Rhyming Buddies

A dumb matchmaker?

A Stupid Cupid

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 1 (Answer)

The man has hiccups; the bartender scares them away by pulling a gun

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 2

A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby

and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is

someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights

of stairs to his apartment

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 2 (Answer)

The man is a midget. He can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them for

him. He can also push them with his umbrella.

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 3

A man is lying drowned in a dead forest

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 3 (Answer)

He was scuba diving when a firefighting plane landed nearby and filled its tanks with water, sucking him in. He ran out of air while the

plane was in flight; then the water, with him in it, was dumped onto a

burning forest

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 1

A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, "Thank you," and walks out

Lateral Thinking Puzzle 1 (Answer)

The man has hiccups; the bartender scares them away by pulling a gun

Word Fragments

To solve the puzzles below, you must think of an English word that contains each of the given word fragments, i.e., you must form a word by adding letters to the beginning and/or the end of the fragment. You may not add letters to the middle of the fragment, nor may

you rearrange the letters given.

Word Fragmentsosoeatulathomwkw

choanllulilrlfh

Word Fragmentsosoe whosoeveratula Congratulations, spatulathom fathomwkw Awkward, hawkweed

choan psychoanalysisllul cellularilr railroadlfh halfhearted

What comes once in a minute, twice in a

moment, but never in a thousand years

The Letter ‘M’

The Queen

                                                                        

The Queen:

Stare at the negative image of the Queen for about 1 minutewithout moving your eyes. Then look at a blank sheet of paperand you'll see the queen

There are 9 people

in this picture.Can you

find them all?

Concentrate on the 4 dots in the middle of the picture for about 30

seconds.

Then close your eyes and tilt your head back.

Keep them closed. You will see a circler of light. Continue looking at the

circle.

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

Each of these six blooms has been constructed from the letters in the name of a flower. The letters are scrambled, and some of them are even upside down. In addition, each set of letters appears six times. For example, Flower 1 below contains the letters R, S, I, and I, and the answer is IRIS. See if you can identify the others

1

2

3

4

5

6

Iris

Rose

Daisy

Violet

Tulip

Lily

Playing Card Line-up

Pass one playing card to each member of the group

On the facilitator’s signal, each participant places the card on his/her forehead so that

others can see the card. 

Without talking, all participants then group by suit, and then in numerical order

Please decide, beforehand, Is Ace high or low?