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,...

These brief, interactive games and activities raise your participants' awareness and prepare them to learn something new. Designed to be fun and energizing, the activities help people overcome the initial anxiety common among new acquaintances or in group situations.

This collection is conveniently divided into two categories: 1) icebreakers, which encourage mixing, and 2) group challenges, which energize and build team cohesion.

Use these games to:
* Promote interaction
* Introduce your topic
* Ease anxieties regarding sensitive or emotional...

Build teams that move mountains



Activity participants enjoy a simulated mountain adventure. In this imaginary setting, they must arrive at consensus in order to succeed, and they experience the magic of group power: synergy. Participants face fatigue, dehydration, an avalanche, and more. First, they make decisions on their own. Then, joining the group, they compare answers and attempt to agree on the best course of action.

Participants will:
* Listen closely to coworkers
* Recognize the benefits of soliciting opinions
* Understand...

Build teams that move mountains



Activity participants enjoy a simulated mountain adventure. In this imaginary setting, they must arrive at consensus in order to succeed, and they experience the magic of group power: synergy. Participants face fatigue, dehydration, an avalanche, and more. First, they make decisions on their own. Then, joining the group, they compare answers and attempt to agree on the best course of action.

Participants will:
* Listen closely to coworkers
* Recognize the benefits of soliciting opinions
* Understand...

In this exciting activity, participants face a simulated -jungle survival.- They must reach agreement in this imaginary setting in order to succeed, and they learn why consensus produces the best decisions.

When their plane makes an emergency landing in the jungle, participants need to decide which of 15 items on the plane--including tallow candles, a pistol, safari hats, and other objects--would be most essential to their survival. First, as individuals, participants rate the 15 items. Then participants collaborate as a group and attempt to decide on the best course of action....

In this exciting activity, participants face a simulated -jungle survival.- They must reach agreement in this imaginary setting in order to succeed, and they learn why consensus produces the best decisions.

When their plane makes an emergency landing in the jungle, participants need to decide which of 15 items on the plane--including tallow candles, a pistol, safari hats, and other objects--would be most essential to their survival. First, as individuals, participants rate the 15 items. Then participants collaborate as a group and attempt to decide on the best course of action....

How do you get your participants involved and then hold on to their attention? Lorraine Ukens--a highly regarded author of activity resources -- offers sixty innovative, enjoyable, and effective activities designed to make learning unforgettable. Use these training tools to teach valuable lessons in:

• Change
• Communication
• Conflict management
• Decision-making
• Diversity
• Goal setting
• Leadership
• Negotiation
• Planning
• Problem solving
• Team dynamics
• . . . and more

All the necessary...

Get 'em started and keep 'em going ? quick Choose from the 75 hands-on activities in this book to:

• Raise the comfort level of your participants
• Jumpstart a training session
• Energize a presentation
• Stimulate group discussion

The key word here is quick While there are tons of books containing icebreakers and energizers, many of the activities are too involved for the limited time available. This book solves that problem.

-A great way to get your session off to an active start is by adding Energize Your Audience to your bookshelf....

Getting Together: Icebreakers and Group Energizers(978-0-7879-0355-8) These brief, interactive games and activities raise your participants' awareness and prepare them to learn something new.

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