Working Together: 55 Team Games

ISBN-13: 9780787903541 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str.

Lorraine L. Ukens

Opis

Strengthen team bonds with friAndly competition

Take your team to a higher level of performance with a healthy dose of competition. These stimulating activities provide lessons in determination, teamwork, and planning-all critical elements in achieving high performance.

Each game includes everything you need to conduct the activity, including instructions, materials required, time required, and reproducible worksheets or material templates. Each is categorized into one of these topics: change, communication, conflict resolution, data analysis, decision making, leadership, perception, problem solving, strategic planning, and time pressure.

These simple games will help you:


* Encourage members to cooperate and use all members' abilities
* Motivate individuals to maximize their contribution
* Demonstrate the benefits of cooperative competition
* Prepare your team to meet future challenges
* Emphasize teamwork as a means to a solution over winning


Use these games to enhance cooperation, resourcefulness, decision making, efficiency, and initiative in your team today

Start your training on the right track and keep it there

Spis treści

Introduction.

1. Boxing Match.

2. Breaking Away.

3. Bridges.

4. Cable Guide.

5. Comic Cut–Ups.

6. Commercial Appeal.

7. Common Bonds.

8. Crypto–Toon.

9. Degrees of Difference.

10. End of the Line.

11. Funny Fingers.

12. Gizmos.

13. Good Fortune.

14. Headlines.

15. Hi–Lo Trivia.

16. Hunter′s Game.

17. In the Cards.

18. Key to the City.

19. Knot Now.

20. Line–Up.

21. Locomotion.

22. Losing Your Marbles.

23. May the Fourth Be With You.

24. Minor 49er.

25. Number Express.

26. Objectivity.

27. Pinned.

28. Pix.

29. Playing For Keeps.

30. Poetic License.

31. Puzzling.

32. Reflections.

33. Rocket Race.

34. Roundabout.

35. Sales Pitch.

36. Scavenger Search.

37. Ship Ahoy.

38. Sign Language.

39. Skyscrapers.

40. Soccer Fan.

41. Sporting Chance.

42. Square Off.

43. State of the Union.

44. Story Time.

45. Structural Changes.

46. Strung Out.

47. Toss–Up.

48. Treasure Map.

49. Twisters.

50. Unbelievable!

51. Weak Link.

52. Weather or Not.

53. What′s My Line?

Wordsmithing.

Zoo Clue.

O autorze

LORRAINE L. UKENS is the owner of Team–ing with Success, a consulting and training enterprise specializing in team building and leadership development. Her wide range of business experience, spanning more than twenty years, is applied in designing, facilitating, and evaluating programs in a variety of human resource development areas. Ukens, an adjunct faculty member in the HRD graduate program at Towson University in Maryland, is the author of several training books and games. She received her M.S. degree from Towson University and is an active member of the American Society for Training and Development at both the national and local levels.

Blurb

Take your team to a higher performance level with a healthy dose of competition. These stimulating activities provide lessons in determination, teamwork, and planning all critical elements in achieving high performance.

These simple games will help you:

• Encourage members to cooperate and use all members′ abilities
• Motivate individuals to maximize their contribution
• Prepare your team to meet future challenges...and more!
• Everything you need to conduct each activity is included.

Use them to enhance cooperation, resourcefulness, decision making, efficiency, and initiative in your team today!