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Procrastination – A Hot Topic



Time required:

10 minutes.


What it does:

Gives your team members an opportunity to feel for themselves how stressful procrastination can be.


You will need:

Enough identical, plain wrapped chocolates so there's one per team member. These chocolates all need to be simple pieces of plain or milk chocolate, but your team will think something quite different.

Have a glass of water on standby for dramatic effect.


flagChocolate coins will work well for this exercise.



In a nutshell:

What happens when team members are given the opportunity to delay completing a potentially unpleasant task?