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ImpromotionTrain your mind to concentrate on opportunities rather than obstacles.
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Summary

In this creative and interactive warm-up game, the participants get to be a promoter of a product that they just improvised in their minds. At the start of every round one team member is chosen to be the "promoter". The rest of the group shouts out two random nouns, which are merged together to form a new imaginary product. For example "lemon" and "hose" would be combined to "lemonhose". The "promoter" then explains what this product is about and tries to convince the rest of the team how good and innovative it is.

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  1. Choose the "promoter" for this round and let the rest of the team pick two nouns that define the new product. Don't think too much about words that would create a funny outcome as the most creative and interesting results will often occur unexpectedly by selecting the first two words that were shouted in the room randomly. 

  2. The "promoter" now presents his supposed new product and tries to sell all its benefits and uses to the rest of the group. 

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