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100 different games, activities, and exercises that have been used by some of America's most experienced and innovative trainers in teaching a variety of important business skills.
The Games Trainers Play Series--now in a durable binder! Scannell and Newstrom's bestselling Games Trainers Play series is now more rewarding than ever! We've taken the same collection of 300+ field-tested training games and activities, organized them in a single pop-open binder, and added an exclusive ``Master Trainer's Kit'' that shows you how to plan, produce, and evaluate high-impact training sessions from start to finish. Result: The Complete Games Trainers Play packs virtually everything you need to conduct productive seminars and workshops--including games that help you build teams, teach creative problem-solving skills, change perceptions, and much more.
Get any training session off the ground fastor jumpstart one whenever it lagswith 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 brilliantly 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-plan tear-out exercises help you: Break the ice and get participants 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 participant-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
The fourth book in the acclaimed Games Trainers Play series includes a fresh collection of motivational activities for every training situation. New icebreakers, brain teasers, problem-solvers, and session closers are included, plus a host of exercises on today's hottest business topics. Each game has been field-tested and can be played in under 30 minutes.
When trainers use games, learners win big. As a trainer interested in game design, you know that games are more effective than lectures. You've seen firsthand how immersive games hold learners' interest, helping them explore new skills and experience different points of view. But how do you become the Milton Bradley of learning games? Play to Learn is here to help. This book bridges the gap between instructional design and game design; it's written to grow your game literacy and strengthen crucial game design skills. Experts Sharon Boller and Karl Kapp share real examples of in-person and online games, and offer an online game for you to try as you read. They walk you through evaluating entertainment and learning games, so you can apply the best to your own designs. Play to Learn will also show you how to: Link game design to your business needs and learning objectives. Test your prototype and refine your design. Deploy your game to motivated and excited learners. So don't just play around. Think big, design well, and use Play to Learn as your guide.
Games and other classroom activities can make training more fun, memorable, and effective. Sales Games and Activities for Trainers is the most useful—and complete—collection of games, role-plays, activities, and other skill-building exercises ever collected for increasing the effectiveness of sales training. There are games and activities covering all aspects of selling, from making presentations to handling objections.
Annotation 101 of the best games from master trainier Bob Pike and the Creative Training Techniques newsletter. These classroom-tested games, activities, and exercises add spark and energy to your training sessions - and help your participant2s learn without even knowing it. Games and Activities cover topics such as: Openers and icebreakers Communication exercises Team-building activities Review and topic reinforcers ... and more!
Kick up your training sessions a notch! If you want to make group learning more fun and effective, this is the resource for you. Training expert Elaine Biech, author of Training for Dummies, challenged some of the world’s best game designers to create never-before-seen games using popular training toys and tools from Trainer’s Warehouse, the nation’s leading supplier of learning resources. Whether you’re a full-time workplace learning professional or occasional trainer, this collection contains the most ingenious and inventive collections of learning games. The collection uses a host of common and readily available tools and toys, from throwables and tactiles, to white boards on a stick and noise-making boomwackers. This book will appeal to anyone who delivers training and education—and presenters, too—the games run the gamut from short energizers, icebreakers and closers, to more involved group and team-building activities.
A primatologist examines unspoken social customs, from jilting a lover to being competitive on the job, to explain how behavioral complexities are linked to humans' primate heritage.
