Part 2 of a 3-part blog post looking at Presentation Skills. In this post, we look at how you deliver your presentation to the audience with more great tips to help you out. If you enjoy reading this blog and find it helpful, please share it on Twitter and Facebook using the links at the bottom of the post. 1. Body Language Body language accounts for over half of our communication, so it is important you get this right. Anyone can say words, but it’s how you express them that keeps the audience connected to your message. Persuasive and influential…
Author: David Priestley
Group members wobble round as eggs. The eggs must meet another egg and play rock, paper, scissors. The winner of the match up then evolves into a chicken and the loser stays an egg. Chickens then have to find another chicken to play, the winner then moves up the ladder to being a prince/princess, then a king or queen, then a champion. The loser always goes back to being an egg. Rock beats scissors by blunting them Paper beats the rock by wrapping around it Scissors beat paper by cutting it Minimum Group Size: 8 Equipment Requirements: None
Each person mentally selects two people and thinks of a distance for each of them. The object is to walk round the room whilst maintaining the chosen distance from each of the two people, e.g. stay two feet from one person and seven feet from the other. Minimum Group Size: 8 Equipment Requirements: None
Get the group to form a circle, either sitting or standing. On the count of three each member of the group is to look at someone. If two people in the group look at each other than they are out of the game. Minimum Group Size: 8 Equipment Requirements: None
The group makes a circle. Two participants are chosen to stand in the centre of it. One of them is acting as a monkey the other is trying to sell the monkey. They walk up to someone in the circle and the seller says ‘would you like to buy my monkey?’ The person in the circle answers by saying ‘what can your monkey do?’ The seller says something the monkey can do and the monkey demonstrates. If the person laughs then they become the monkey and the monkey becomes the seller. If they hold a straight face, the pair must…
The group all stands in a circle with their legs apart and feet touching the feet of the people either side of them. Each person bends forward and has to defend the space between their legs. This is their ‘goal’. A ball is added to the circle and everyone must try to push the ball through other group member’s legs, whilst defending their own goal. If the ball passes between your legs, you lose a life and you can only defend your goal with one hand. If another life is lost, you lose both hands. When a third life is…
The group lies on their fronts in a circle. Each person puts their left arm underneath the right arm of the person on their left. One group member then starts a pulse going round the circle. They tap the floor once with their hand. This continues round the circle. If the person gives two taps instead of one the direction of the pulse is reversed. If anyone taps out of turn or forgets to tap they lose the hand that made the mistake, giving them in effect two lives (once they lose both hands they are then out of the…
The group stands in a circle with the leader in the middle. The leader has several instructions; if at any point a child is too slow or does the wrong thing they are then out of the game. If the leaders points at a child and says ‘oogly boogly bop’ they have to say bop before the leaders does. If the leader points at a participant and says ‘kangaroo’ the child must make a pouch with their hands, with the people either side of jumping up and down. If the leader points at a child and says elephant that child…
The group stand in a circle with the ‘splat master’ in the middle. If the splat master points at you and says ‘splat’ you must duck down quickly. The people either side of the splatted person must put their arm out and shout splat. Whoever out of the three people is the slowest is out of the game. When only two people are remaining, they stand in the centre of the circle back to back for the final ‘Splat off’. Every time the splat master says a word (these can be themed such as cars, chocolate etc), they step forward.…
Split the group into two smaller groups. Each group forms a line, one behind the other, facing the same way and facing the other team. Participants place their hands on the waist of the person in front of them. The last person in each team has a scarf tucked in to the waistband of their trousers. The object is for the front person of each team to grab the scarf of the other team without the chain letting go. Minimum Group Size: 12 Equipment Requirements: Scarfs (or bibs, old t shirts, etc.)
The group forms a circle. They then practice slapping hands on thighs to make a galloping horse sound. Brief group that it is the Grand National and that on the word ‘go’ the horse race will start. There will be a commentary that will describe the hazards and jumps. A jump is tackled by lifting the hands off the thighs to symbolize flight over a fence. A triple for example would be shown by gallop flight gallop flight gallop flight gallop. Water jumps will be gallop flight splash gallop. The group leans to go round corners and body swerves to…
In a boundary area, one person is ‘Mr Wolf’ who stands with his back to the group. Everyone else stands in a line, side-by-side facing Mr Wolf. Everyone in the line shouts ‘What time is it Mr Wolf’ and then Mr Wolf will give a time. For example, should Mr Wolf shout ‘5 o’clock’ then everyone in the line can take five equal steps. This is repeated until the line gets very close to Mr Wolf. When Mr Wolf decides they are close enough to be tagged, he shouts ‘dinner time’ instead and attempts to tag anyone running back to…