All Together Now!

LORRAINE L. UKENS is the owner of Team-ing with Success, an organization 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 training areas.In 1993, Loraine developed a comprehensive three-phase training program, also called TEAM-ING WITH SUCCESS, which was designed to help build and maintain high-performing teams. Since then, additional games and activities have been developed that use hands-on learning experiences to promote constructive group dynamics.Loraine received her M.S. degree in human resource development from Towson State University in Maryland. A writer and consultant, she is an active member of the American School for Training and Development.

• Introduction Experiential Learning 3Games as Experiential Activities 5Fundamentals 6Summary 9Activities Added Value 13Bidding Wars 17Bridging the Gap 23By All Accounts 27Character Reference 29Chip Ship 33Choice Cuts 35Class Act 39Comics Counseling 41Communication Connection 45Construction Sight 49Creative License 53Dicey Digits 57Drawing on Experience 63Eternal Triangles 65Exercising Your Strength 69Flextime 71Force Field 75Give and Take 77Goal Tending 79Guest List 81Hike to Hideaway Lake 85Jigsaw 91Mancala 93Measuring Up 97Mind-Set 101Moonlight Serenade 107Musical Islands 111Nine Men's Morris 113No Quibbling 117Not on Your Life 123Observation Post 125On Fire 129Outer Limits 133Parallel Proportions 137Perfect Square 141Personal Preference 145Personal Space 149Pileup 153Playing the Links 157Quick Draw 161The Right Stuff 165Runway 169Scenic Route 171Secret Desires 175Silent Moves 179Stringing Along 181Symbolic Gestures 183Team Picture 185Time Capsule 189Time for Teamwork 193Tower of Power 199Trade-Off 205What's My Line? 209What's Your Bag? 213When It Counts 215Wishful Thinking 219X-Acta 223X-Change Rate 227Yurt Circle 231About the Author 233