Exercises for management training
Exercises from Couchinfo training kits that you can run in a training session, a team meeting or a strategy session. Each one comes with the goal, timing, step-by-step flow, debrief questions and tips for the facilitator. The cards and handouts are in the full kit.
How to lead exercises and debriefs — see the guide “How to Run a Leadership Training: A Step-by-Step Guide”.
Leadership and Accountability
Excuse → Step
Master the formula of the language of accountability: fact — my part — what I will do — by when.
Leadership and AccountabilityGame "Opening a New Branch"
Experience how responsibility is shared in a group when nobody has been put in charge, and see your own habitual roles.
Leadership and AccountabilityRACI: The Industry Trade Show
Build a RACI matrix on a training case and check it against the rules.
Coaching and Team Leadership
Instruction or Question
Learn to turn habitual management instructions into open questions that get the employee thinking.
Coaching and Team LeadershipGROW in Threes
Hold a short development conversation using the GROW model on a real work issue and get feedback.
Coaching and Team LeadershipFeedback on Cases
Practice corrective and supportive feedback using a five-step structure.
Performance Management with AI
How to Game a KPI
See the loopholes in metrics and learn to close them with a balanced set.
Performance Management with AIThe One-to-One
Practice a regular one-to-one in six steps and find out something the manager did not know.
Performance Management with AISpot the AI's Mistakes
Learn to check an AI assistant's answer with a short checklist.
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
Debate Game "Zigzag"
Experience the emotions of an argument in a safe game and learn to analyze your reaction: what set off the emotion and how it affected your words.
Emotional Intelligence for LeadersRewrite the Email
See how the tone of a message affects the recipient's emotions, and learn to rewrite sharp messages without losing the substance.
Emotional Intelligence for LeadersProvocation Cards
Practice a calm response to provocation in a safe form: the phrases come from a role, not from a colleague.
AI and Automation Adoption: Leading Your Team Through Change
Voices of the Curve
Learn to recognize the stage of the change curve from an employee's words and choose the manager's response.
AI and Automation Adoption: Leading Your Team Through ChangeThe Force Field of My Change
See the forces that drive a change and hold it back, and choose what to weaken first.
AI and Automation Adoption: Leading Your Team Through ChangeA Conversation with Someone Who Resists
Practice a five-step conversation with an employee who is resisting the adoption of AI.
Motivation and Inspiration Tools for Leaders
Identify the Style
Practice recognizing an employee's behavioral style using the DISC model from a description, and naming the signs the conclusion is based on.
Motivation and Inspiration Tools for LeadersThe Leader's Two-Minute Speech
Learn to tell the team briefly about a goal or a change so that it is clear why it is needed and what matters from each person.
Motivation and Inspiration Tools for LeadersCriticism Without Demotivation
Practice six-step criticism with employees of different styles so that the person puts things right instead of getting defensive.
Managing Processes and Resources: Unconventional Solutions
Business Game "The Tower"
Give the group a shared experience of working on a task with limited resources, which is then used to debrief goal setting, choice of strategy and roles.
Managing Processes and Resources: Unconventional SolutionsPoints of View
Reformulate a work problem through the eyes of different people and find new directions for solutions.
Managing Processes and Resources: Unconventional SolutionsControl Map
Build control of your own task in advance and without the typical mistakes: total, hidden or "occasional" control.
Managing Your Inner Resources: Energy, Motivation, Recovery
Balls and Stones
See completed and unfinished tasks and move one "stone" — a task that has been hanging around for a long time.
Managing Your Inner Resources: Energy, Motivation, RecoveryCircle of Influence
Sort sources of stress into what depends on me, what I can influence through others and what does not depend on me — and choose an action for each circle.
Managing Your Inner Resources: Energy, Motivation, RecoveryBelief Review
Find your own limiting work beliefs using marker words and see how much energy they take.