Team Workout: A Trainers Sourcebook of 50 Team-Building Games and Activities by Glenn Parker & Richard Kropp

352 Pages - Item #: 604-045	ISBN: 0-8144-7120-X
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A practical collection of new activities focusing on team building and team training.

Teams have evolved into an important structure in business today—and are now needed more than ever.

An insightful collection of activities, Team Workout provides facilitators, trainers, leaders, and managers with a wide variety of tools to increase team effectiveness and upgrade skills and knowledge within today's challenging organizational environment. The book focuses on such current team issues as virtual teams, trust-building, customer satisfaction, recognition, and respect. Trainers will learn the key ideas that underlie all of the activities in this manual, including:

• Each team has a common purpose, mission, or goal
• Members are interdependent; they need each other to achieve their purpose
• Agreement that working together effectively will help to reach their goal.

This collection will help team leaders, team-building specialists, trainers, and others interested in creating collaborative, harmonious and effective work teams.

The Big Book of Customer Service Games by Peggy Carlaw & Vasusha Deming

209 Pages - Item #: 600-001	ISBN: 0070779740
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Supervisors and trainers: turn your customer service reps into your company's biggest asset! Because they're out there dealing with the public, frontline workers such as customer service representatives, salespeople, and technicians have the capacity to make a company look very bad...or very good. With the help of this creative collection of training games, you can be sure that your employees can be counted on to give your company a good reputation--employees who...know how to create a rapport with the customer or client; recognize and respond for the needs of every customer; go beyond the expected; bring enthusiasm and a love of what they do to the job. These easy-to-use games take just 15-30 minutes and include reproducible handouts and worksheets. You can use them either to enliven traditional customer service training programs or to add a training component to a regular staff meeting. Customer service training games will help your frontline service workers keep a positive attitude at all times; speak and communicate clearly, both on the telephone and face-to-face; deal with difficult customers, and much more.

The Big Book of Humorous Training Games by Doni Tamblyn & Sharyn Weiss

30 illus., 279 Pages - Item #: 604-036	ISBN: 0071357807
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The Big Book of Humorous Training Games uses witty, engaging games to create memorable lessons in numerous basic training topics, including customer service, teambuilding, creative problem solving, time management, and more. Step-by-step instructions work with dozens of reproducible handouts and worksheets help trainers and speakers minimize preparation time and maximized training success.

This easy-to-read manual gives step-by-step directions that will help new and veteran trainers infuse their workshops with humor, fun and creativity. Each chapter in the book offers fie games to teach a popular, business-related topic. You get:

• Theoretical background on the topic
• A suggested amusing introduction for each activity
• Step-by-step directions
• Reproducible handouts
• Recommended debriefing questions

The Big Book of Icebreakers: Quick, fun activities for energizing meetings and workshops by Edie West

50 illus., 227 Pages - Item #: 604-039	ISBN: 0071349847
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Leading a meeting? giving a presentation? Heading a workshop? Icebreakers are great for lightening up the atmosphere at the beginning of a meeting or event, and encouraging everyone to participate fully. This collection of 50 icebreakers is organized around common business situations and is designed to help leaders start every session, meeting, presentation, or workshop with a burst of energy and fun. Includes icebreakers for sales meetings, team building, complete strangers, introducing a topic, staff meetings, groups over 20, outdoor settings, and more.

The Big Book of Presentation Games by John Newstrom & Edward Scannel

212 Pages - Item #: 604-032	ISBN: 0070465010
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Don't let the audience snooze through any of your presentations! How do you keep an audience from becoming bored or restless during a presentation? Find out with The Big Book of Presentation Games. Each game is fast, fun, creative, and easy-to-read, and easy-to-lead, and costs little or nothing. Categories also include: great session-openers; icebreakers; climate-setting games; practical jokes and tricks; audience brainteasers; motivation activities; memorable closing activities; and much more!

The Big Book of Sales Games by Peggy Carlaw & Vasudha Deming

200 Pages - Item #: 604-030	ISBN: 0071343369
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Another book in the best selling Big Book of Business Games Series,The Big Book of Sales Games delivers dozens of 5-20 minute games and activities designed to motivate salespeople, teach key selling principles, or just liven up a sales meeting. Packed with fun, engaging activities, The Big Book of Sales Games gives you simple, fast, and enjoyable ways to train and motivate sales staff--or yourself--for selling success.

Learn how to:

• Master up-selling techniques for increased order value
• Polish communication skills to win sales and customer loyalty
• Tailor features and benefits to reach difficult buyers
• Sell more in any situation--on the phone, at the store, or in the field
• Build team spirit among your sales staff

Team Games for Trainers by Carolyn Nilson

Item #: 1002-006	ISBN: 0070465886
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Effective team building through training games. Carolyn Nilson's Training Games for Trainers reveals the fastest and most effective techniques to meet the demand for team-building in any organization. Over 100 ready-to-use games, exercises, and activities help you to build, implement and maintain work teams. Each game is self-contained with templates, answer sheets and explanations of objectives and procedures. You'll find games for: group/individual empowerment; organizational change readiness; personal skill building; work definition; role fulfillment; task/process evaluation; conflict resolution; much more.

More Team Games for Trainers by Carolyn Nilson

35 illus., 283 Pages - Item #: 604-034	ISBN: 0070465908
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Finally--the next generation of team training games is here! Now that teams have been around for a few years, what have top training professionals learned about facilitating teams? What causes teams to fail, and how do you train to make sure that your teams don't? How can you keep your training exercises fresh, entertaining, and engaging when working with advanced teams who think they've "seen it all"? You'll find out in this long-awaited sequel to the best selling manual, Team Games for Trainers. Based on a sophisticated new understanding of team dynamics gleaned from nearly a decade of experience with all sorts of workplace teams, this cutting-edge collection of training games draws on all the important changes and advances in the work teams movement since the publication of the first book. Here are 100 stimulating and easy-to-facilitate games, activities, and exercises you can use to: align individual and team goals; make diversity work; turn learning into doing; unleash team creativity and spark innovation; build teams that cope well with change; and much more!

The Big Book of Six Sigma Training Games Proven Ways to Teach Basic DMAIC Principles and Quality Improvement Tools by Chris Chen and Hadley M. Roth

250 Pages - Item#: 205-032	ISBN: 0071443851
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An effective and engaging way employees can learn Six Sigma and put its concepts into play.

Part of the popular Big Book of Games series, which capitalizes on the proven effective method for workplace training, this first book of training games for Six Sigma ensures that employees will better retain Six Sigma's complex topics.

This invaluable tool offers 50 experiential activities that teach the core improvement approach of Six Sigma, called DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), as well as many of the popular statistical improvement tools, including Pareto charts and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). These games:

• Teach Six Sigma roles and organization
• Gear the team up for success
• Identify problems and generate solutions
• Teach project management
• Help teams understand the need for Six Sigma

All of the activities can be performed using common, everyday materials--such as playing cards, water, and paper clips--and each provides a thorough and enjoyable Six Sigma learning experience.

The Big Book of Meeting Games by Marlene Caroselli

250 pages - Item #: 205-033	ISBN: 0071396845
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Games and activities to help keep meetings energized and participants involved.

The Big Book of Meeting Games offers meeting leaders 75 short, challenging, and fun activities to accomplish specific meeting objectives. From force-field analysis to fishbone diagrams, it transforms often intimidating facilitation and decision-making tools into quick, engaging activities that can be used successfully in virtually any business context. Meeting participants will become more involved, more creative, and more productive through games and exercises that allow them to:

• Break the ice with unfamiliar employees
• Engage and energize for more powerful, valuable input
• Effectively solve problems and voice their solutions

The Big Book of Stress Relief Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Feeling Better by Robert Epstein

203 Pages - Item #: 205-034	ISBN: 0070218668
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These quick games, exercises, and activities are designed to reduce stress wherever and whenever it strikes, in meetings, in front of the computer, or when dealing with difficult people. Psychology Today Editor-In-Chief Robert Epstein has created fifty 1-3 minute games based on STRESS-PROOFING, an original system derived from scientific research that makes stress reduction effortless and effective.

For everyone from deskbound office workers to managers in meetings, this is the latest addition to one of McGraw-Hill's best-selling book series:

• Helps alleviate high-pressure situations at home and at work.
• Includes comprehensive life-planning and life-organization activities.
• Requires less then 3 minutes to play most of the creative, relaxing games.

The Big Book of Leadership Games Quick, Fun Activities to Improve Communication, Increase Productivity, and Bring Out the Best in Employees by Vasudha K. Deming

160 Pages - Item #: 205-035	ISBN: 0071435255
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Dozens of engaging ways to forge good working relationships between managers and their staffs

This book offers managers 50 fun, illuminating experiential activities for building a positive, open, and productive relationship with the people they manage. Unlike ropes courses and other off-site management activities, The Big Book of Leadership Games features activities that can be used in the workplace during staff meetings, as a part of training sessions, or even in the course of daily work. This empowering guide shows leaders how to:

• Tap employees' creativity and boost their self-confidence
• Create and sustain a mutual trust with employees
• Break down communication barriers and increase collaboration
• Bring about a positive climate in the workplace
• Encourage higher productivity
• Solicit constructive feedback

The Big Book of Business Games Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises and Meeting Energizers by John W. Newstrom and Edward E. Scannell

170 Pages - Item #: 205-036	ISBN: 0070464766
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In this exciting resource book, two of today's acknowledged games masters serve up a cookbook of activities that you can learn to use, guaranteed to generate a lively discussion, or simply give a group a "breather" from the monotony of a boring staff meeting or presentation. Each of the 75 group games and activities here is adapted from the best-selling Games Trainers Play series and shortened to suit the needs of managers and team leaders to use with their departments, staff, or committees.

Includes:

• Introduction.
• How to Use This Book.
• Climate Setting, Icebreakers, and Session Openers.
• Presentation Boosters.
• Motivating Your Group.
• Creativity and Problem-Solving.
• Surfacing Hidden Problems in Your Group.
• Team Building Exercises.
• Managing Change: Dealing with Resistance and Getting Buy-in.
• Communication, Listening and Feedback Activities.

The Big Book of Motivation Games by Robert Epstein and Jessica Rogers

224 Pages - Item #: 205-037	ISBN: 0071372342
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This addition to the best-selling Big Book of Business Games Series is packed with over 40 original games and exercises managers can use to motivate their teams—and themselves. The Big Book of Motivational Games presents managers with a variety of games that can be customized to suit their specific needs and group size.

The book provides games designed to:

• Stop Procrastination
• Beat burnout
• Fight boredom
• Boost performance
• Overcome failure

Teambuilding Puzzles by Mike Anderson, Jim Cain, Chris Cavert and Tom Heck

304 Pages - Item #: 505-151	ISBN: 0-9746442-0-X
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100 Puzzles and Activities for Creating Teachable Moments in Creative Problem Solving, Consensus Building,
Leadership and more....

Metaphors for Living: Stories & Related Experiential Exercises for Individual, Group & Family Growth by Jackie Gerstein, EdD, LPCC

Item #: 1105-001	ISBN:
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A compilation of stories with related exercises for individual, group and family growth.

The exercises are designed to allow participants to enact parts of the story in order to help them identify with and develop some ownership of the feelings, thought processing, and solutions contained in that story. These exercises include visual arts, rituals, and group/family initiatives.

Games for Change: Group Activities with Creative Spiritual Concepts on the Side by Tim Dodds, Lisa Prosser-Dodds MSEd, LPC, NCC & Friends

Item #: 605-093	ISBN:
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A collection of games and activities that generate discussion and impart skills and values, regardless of whether the facilitator includes the optional spiritual concepts.

Each activity contains the necessary components to appropriately facilitate it, including objectives, needs, procedures, and processing questions.

When using the activities with faith-based organizations, each activity also contains the components of spiritual insight, going deeper and going wider, which provide the facilitator with the resources to guide the group through spiritual issues.

The More the Merrier: Lead Playful Activities with Large Groups Why - What - How by Sam Sikes, Faith Evans & Chris Cavert

422 Pages - Item #: 407-001	ISBN: 9-78096465419-8
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• A book of activities and more - 100 activities and large group theory.
• Sections include: The Reviewing/Processing Experience w/ Large Groups; Programming Large Groups; Playing It Safe; Experiential Learning; A Closer Look at Facilitation; Shortcuts; Co-Facilitation; Managing Large Groups.
• 8 1/2 x 11 paperback

Creative Learning: Activities and Games That REALLY Engage People by Robert W. Lucas

Item #: 407-020	ISBN: 0-7879-8740-9
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Written by master trainer Bob Lucas, this book provides a wealth of new activities and games that can be used by trainers, presenters and educators in virtually any type of indoor learning environment. Lucas presents the theory and concepts behind using games and activities and discusses the research that supports the case for focusing on brain-based (active) learning, and the benefits of adding fun and novelty to the learning environment in order to enhance transfer of learning from the classroom to the workplace. He also offers guidance on the possible scenarios when these brain-based games might be appropriate. The remainder of the book offers a creative collection of activities for use throughout any training event.

The book includes "getting started" activities to build and continue momentum and useful ways to create a bridge from learning to application.

• Filled with icebreakers and introductions motivators, brainteaser and energizers transition and reinforcement activities, stories that teach and powerful session closers.
• Written by a leader in creative training and a former chapter president of ASTD.
• The brain-friendly approach taken in this book is guaranteed to elevate ordinary training to extraordinary levels