Games Trainers Play

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Get any training session off the ground fast--or jumpstart one whenever it lags--with the more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from Tombstone Planning'' to The Nobel' Prize Winner, '' but these brilliant offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together. Page after page of fun, easy-to-plant tearout exercises help you: break the ice and get particpants acquainted; shake up outworn habits and perceptions; challenge with thought-provoking brainteasers; test learning and retention; develop communication and listening skills; bring out and involve particpant-leaders; win back lethargic, distracted, low-energy groups; encourage creative problem-solving; boost or reinforce a group's self-image; forge cohesive work teams that value group effort; facilitate transfer of training to the job.

How often have you tried to get a training program underway only to be met by silent stares from your audience? Or started a session with a bang and watched it fizzle out as the course progressed? Here's the book that can help you break the ice and get participants to really participate. It's packed with over 100 different exercises, activities, and training aids that have been proven effective in a variety of group situations. Each of these games has three common characteristics: all can be administered in less than 30 minutes; they involve very little advance preparation; you can adapt them for a variety of purposes. Each exercise is printed on a perforated, 3-hole punched sheet so you can remove them from the book and add them to your own workshop materials. In addition, several of the exercises include transparency masters.