The phrase "a useful exercise for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an activity or task that serves a beneficial purpose for a specific group or individual.
Example: "Completing this project is a useful exercise for enhancing your problem-solving skills."
Alternatives: "a beneficial activity for" or "a valuable practice for".
But thinking ahead about wide-ranging technology and market trends is a useful exercise for those of us engaged in the business of partnering with entrepreneurs and executives that are building the next great company.
Still, imagining might be a useful exercise for all of us.
This allowed us to not only assess their writing levels, but was also a useful exercise for their future.
Journey mapping is a useful exercise for understanding experiences with the policy.
Whether it is even a useful exercise for commentators to declare a winner in a presidential debate seems debatable.
Once you've answered questions about four key areas — work, home, community, self — Wharton professor Stewart Friedman provides practical guidance and a useful exercise for addressing the critical gaps.
It's a useful exercise, but for our purposes the only thing worth calling out is the definition of capital itself, which he treats as equivalent to wealth, and which he considers to be sources of value that can be traded (so "human capital" doesn't count).
Canvassing in general elections is a useful exercise in humility for would-be MPs.Torbay likes to call itself the English Riviera, but is better known as "God's waiting room".
It is not an exhaustive resource by any means, but The Joy of Teaching is a worthy primer for the brand-new professor and a useful exercise in self-reflection for new and seasoned professors alike.
Neil Morton, at Investec Securities, noted drily after the cheerfully good first half figures that "reading BP's quarterly results is arguably a more useful exercise for law students than for financial investors.
Leading up to the T20 World Cup the only challenge for England is who is there best XI? You've got Ben Stokes, Steven Finn and Mark Wood all to come back in". That was a very useful exercise for England ahead of next year's World T20.
