John Newstrom – författare

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.

Look on any trainer's bookshelf and most likely you'll find all three of the earlier "Games Trainers Play" books - well-used and well-loved. To date, this imitated-but-never-duplicated series leads the training game field with more than 100,00 copies sold. Now Scannell and Newstrom have done it again, with a fresh collection of motivational activities for every training situation. Readers will enjoy a wealth of all-new icebreakers, brain teasers, problem-solvers, and session closers.

In this exciting resource book, two of today's acknowledged games masters serve up a cookbook of activities that anyone leading a meeting or giving a presentation can use to break the ice, generate a lively discussion, or simply give a group a 'breather' from the monotony of a boring staff meeting or presentation. Each of the 75 group games and activities here is adapted from the best-selling "Games Trainers Play" series and shortened to suit the needs of managers and team leaders for use with their departments, staff, or committees.

Don't let the audience snooze through any of your presentations! How do you keep an audience from becoming bored or restless during a presentation? Find out with "The Big Book of Presentation Games". Stop relying on tired jokes and use these fun-filled, interactive games and activities specifically designed to: build rapport and warm up the audience; provide refreshing "breathers" from the monotony of a speech; get people's blood flowing with physical activity; generate lively discussions; reinforce the key points of your message in an enjoyable way; and win back an audience that has tuned out. Each game in "The Big Book of Presentation Games" is fast, fun, creative, and easy-to-read, and easy-to-lead, and costs little or nothing. Categories also include: great session-openers; icebreakers; climate-setting games; practical jokes and tricks; audience brainteasers; motivation activities; memorable closing activities; and much more!

The fun way to lift morale in any work group! Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Team-building games and activities are so stimulating and enjoyable that everyone in the department actually looks forward to them! Now you can choose from 70 varied and imaginative games and activities that have been specifically designed for the manager who's looking to: raise sagging morale in a department; liven up boring staff meetings; improve communication; promote a culture of harmony and cooperation; and have fun with your work team. Each of these games is fast, creative, easy-to-lead, and will help you accomplish your team building goals. Learn valuable tips on how to present games and how to select activities for particular situations. Get essential advice on what not to do when leading games, and much more!

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