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Praise for Jolts! "Only Thiagi and his co-author, Tracy, could have devised a list of 50 magical learning moments that are concise and certain to JOLT learners into new perspectives and profound insights. If you facilitate group learning or change management, you won't want to miss this one!"—Elaine Biech, author of Business of Consulting and Training for Dummies"Give your training sessions a jump start with Jolt activities in less than 5 minutes. These easy-to-use creative techniques help learners gain instant insights. Not just session starters, this collection is a valuable addition to any trainer's bookshelf."—Jean Barbazette, president, The Training Clinic, and author of The Art of Great TrainingDelivery and Managing the Training Function for Bottom-Line Results"As a Charter Member of BFT (Borrow from Thiagi) Club, I've been adapting Thiagi's training activities for decades. I have built college courses and training workshops around Thiagi and Tracy's jolts. Use the jolts from this book as a way to instantly and successfully engage your participants with your topic."—Steve Sugar, author of Games That TeachJolt|jolt|: a powerful training tool that will help you engage your participants and focus attention on your learning event.Master trainer Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan and co-author Tracy Tagliati introduce a brand-new set of powerful training activities specially designed to get participants to sit-up, listen, and learn—to jolt them into a new level of participation, activity, and change.The forty-seven games and activities in Jolts! are interactive and emotionally charged—carefully chosen for their ability to make participants think, and think differently.When you really need to give your participants a powerful wake-up call, startle them into re-examining their assumptions and habitual practices, or encourage self-reflection, problem solving, and fresh perspectives—zap them with Jolts!

Praise for Jolts!

"Only Thiagi and his co-author, Tracy, could have devised a list of 50 magical learning moments that are concise and certain to JOLT learners into new perspectives and profound insights. If you facilitate group learning or change management, you won''t want to miss this one!" —Elaine Biech, author of Business of Consulting and Training for Dummies

"Give your training sessions a jump start with Jolt activities in less than 5 minutes. These easy-to-use creative techniques help learners gain instant insights. Not just session starters, this collection is a valuable addition to any trainer''s bookshelf." —Jean Barbazette, president, The Training Clinic, and author of The Art of Great TrainingDelivery and Managing the Training Function for Bottom-Line Results

"As a Charter Member of BFT (Borrow from Thiagi) Club, I''ve been adapting Thiagi''s training activities for decades. I have built college courses and training workshops around Thiagi and Tracy''s jolts. Use the jolts from this book as a way to instantly and successfully engage your participants with your topic." —Steve Sugar, author of Games That Teach

Jolt|jolt|: a powerful training tool that will help you engage your participants and focus attention on your learning event.

Master trainer Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan and co-author Tracy Tagliati introduce a brand-new set of powerful training activities specially designed to get participants to sit-up, listen, and learn—to jolt them into a new level of participation, activity, and change.

The forty-seven games and activities in Jolts! are interactive and emotionally charged—carefully chosen for their ability to make participants think, and think differently.

When you really need to give your participants a powerful wake-up call, startle them into re-examining their assumptions and habitual practices, or encourage self-reflection, problem solving, and fresh perspectives—zap them with Jolts!

Praise for Jolts!

"Only Thiagi and his co-author, Tracy, could have devised a list of 50 magical learning moments that are concise and certain to JOLT learners into new perspectives and profound insights. If you facilitate group learning or change management, you won''t want to miss this one!" —Elaine Biech, author of Business of Consulting and Training for Dummies

"Give your training sessions a jump start with Jolt activities in less than 5 minutes. These easy-to-use creative techniques help learners gain instant insights. Not just session starters, this collection is a valuable addition to any trainer''s bookshelf." —Jean Barbazette, president, The Training Clinic, and author of The Art of Great TrainingDelivery and Managing the Training Function for Bottom-Line Results

"As a Charter Member of BFT (Borrow from Thiagi) Club, I''ve been adapting Thiagi''s training activities for decades. I have built college courses and training workshops around Thiagi and Tracy''s jolts. Use the jolts from this book as a way to instantly and successfully engage your participants with your topic." —Steve Sugar, author of Games That Teach

Jolt|jolt|: a powerful training tool that will help you engage your participants and focus attention on your learning event.

Master trainer Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan and co-author Tracy Tagliati introduce a brand-new set of powerful training activities specially designed to get participants to sit-up, listen, and learn—to jolt them into a new level of participation, activity, and change.

The forty-seven games and activities in Jolts! are interactive and emotionally charged—carefully chosen for their ability to make participants think, and think differently.

When you really need to give your participants a powerful wake-up call, startle them into re-examining their assumptions and habitual practices, or encourage self-reflection, problem solving, and fresh perspectives—zap them with Jolts!

The ultimate resource for improvement and planning! This treasure trove of information gives you expert direction for helping your organization and its employees improve performance. Unlike most resources on organizational improvement that consider only the micro- (individual) and macro- (organization) levels, this guide incorporates the mega- (customer/client) level in planning success.Among the many leading contributors to this volume are: Dale M. BrethowerDiane DormantJudith HaleRoger KaufmanDanny G. LangdonBette MadsonAnn W. ParkmanSivasailam "Thiagi" ThiagarajanOdin WestgaardJack Zigon . . . and many more! You'll learn vital performance improvement steps including:Defining objectives and ensuring that they are usefulDetermining what results to achieveDesigning and implementing interventions, programs, and activities that will achieve resultsPlanning appropriate evaluation efforts . . . and much more!The Guidebook for Performance Improvement draws on all the current improvement approaches--quality, reengineering, job-task analysis, reward programs, and others--synthesizes those ideas, and offers you a wide range of success strategies to maximize workplace performance. A desk reference like no other, this book gives you cutting-edge tips and techniques for achieving organizational breakthroughs.Selected Contents: --The Origins and Critical Attributes of Human Performance TechnologyResearch and Development Origins of Performance SystemsSocial Responsibility--A Strategic-Planning Framework: Mega PlanningPreparing Performance Indicators and ObjectivesNeeds-Assessment BasicsBusiness-Unit Performance Analysis and DevelopmentOrganizational MappingJob-Task Analysis--The Hierarchy of InterventionsApplications of Total Quality Concepts to Organizational EffectivenessDeveloping Front-line Employees: A New Challenge for Achieving Organizational EffectivenessJob AidsRecruitment and TurnoverAccountability for Staff TurnoverPerformance ManagementProgram Management: Its Relationship to the ProjectRewards and Performance IncentivesDeveloping Test and Assessment ItemsQuality Management/Continuous ImprovementPerformance Appraisal

Two training legends offer you a definitive team sourcebook! The world's two best-known team-building facilitators bring youover thirty-five cutting-edge activities. You'll turn to thistreasury of hassle-free, sure-fire games, exercises, andsimulations time and time again. "In keeping with the tradition of continuous learning aboutteamwork, Thiagi and Parker have hit a home run. Teamwork andTeamplay is a must-have for every training bookshelf."--Harvey A. Robbins, co-author, Why Teams Don't Work "I can think of forty reasons to buy this book: thirty-eight gamesand activities, each a gem--plus two of the best writers in thetraining business. I am truly impressed at how well each activityis designed and how easy the rules are to understand."--Steve Sugar, author, Games That Teach; president, The GameGroup The game formats are varied: some short, some long; someicebreakers, some closers; and much more! A game selection matrixenables you to find a game that suits your situation. Plus,training legends Thiagi and Parker share with you their proveninsights on effective teamwork and facilitation.

Smart trainers know that games and activities can involve adults in learning like no other instructional method and no one knows more about games than Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan. In this must-have resource, Thiagi shows you how to customize more than thirty different kinds of games -- games that fit the circumstances perfectly and that can be designed in mere minutes.

Discover how to unleash the full potential of your meetingsInefficient meetings plague even the most well-run organizations. In 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings, productivity and games expert Sivasailam Thiagarajan explains how to use fifty tried-and-true methods to get the most out of every meeting.This book teaches the strategy of employing games, activities, and simulations to facilitate extraordinary meeting productivity and creativity. It teaches meeting planners and organizers how to use games and simulations to enhance all types of meetings: Understand organizational opportunities and problemsGenerate alternative ideasTransform ideas into decisionsTranslate decisions into actionsWritten for managers and executives at all levels of governmental, non-profit, and for-profit organizations, 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings transforms traditional meetings into engines of creativity and growth. Thiagarajan uses the extensive experience he has gained in consulting for companies like Google and JP Morgan to teach managers of all stripes how to supercharge their next meeting.

Discover how to unleash the full potential of your meetings

Inefficient meetings plague even the most well-run organizations. In 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings, productivity and games expert Sivasailam Thiagarajan explains how to use fifty tried-and-true methods to get the most out of every meeting.

This book teaches the strategy of employing games, activities, and simulations to facilitate extraordinary meeting productivity and creativity. It teaches meeting planners and organizers how to use games and simulations to enhance all types of meetings:

Understand organizational opportunities and problems Generate alternative ideas Transform ideas into decisions Translate decisions into actions

Written for managers and executives at all levels of governmental, non-profit, and for-profit organizations, 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings transforms traditional meetings into engines of creativity and growth. Thiagarajan uses the extensive experience he has gained in consulting for companies like Google and JP Morgan to teach managers of all stripes how to supercharge their next meeting.

Discover how to unleash the full potential of your meetings

Inefficient meetings plague even the most well-run organizations. In 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings, productivity and games expert Sivasailam Thiagarajan explains how to use fifty tried-and-true methods to get the most out of every meeting.

This book teaches the strategy of employing games, activities, and simulations to facilitate extraordinary meeting productivity and creativity. It teaches meeting planners and organizers how to use games and simulations to enhance all types of meetings:

Understand organizational opportunities and problems Generate alternative ideas Transform ideas into decisions Translate decisions into actions

Written for managers and executives at all levels of governmental, non-profit, and for-profit organizations, 50 Activities to Kickstart Your Meetings transforms traditional meetings into engines of creativity and growth. Thiagarajan uses the extensive experience he has gained in consulting for companies like Google and JP Morgan to teach managers of all stripes how to supercharge their next meeting.

Wholly revised to celebrate its 25th anniversary, BARNGA is the classic simulation game for exploring communication challenges across cultures. While playing Barnga, participants experience the shock of realizing that despite their good intentions and the many similarities amongst themselves, people interpret things differently from in profoundly important ways, especially people from differing cultures. Players learn that they must understand and reconcile these differences if they want to function effectively in a cross-cultural group. The "game" is deceptively simple: participants, broken up into several small groups, play a simple card, never knowing that each group has been given a subtly different set of rules to play by, nor that those rules will change yet again as the game develops and groups of players are reconfigured. Conflicts quickly begin to occur as players move from group to group, simulating real cross-cultural encounters, where people initially believe they share the same understanding of the basic rules and learn to their dismay and confusion that they do not. In discovering that the rules are different, players undergo a mini culture shock similar to actual experience when entering a different culture. They then must struggle to understand and reconcile these differences to play the game effectively in their "cross-cultural" groups. Difficulties are magnified by the fact that players may not speak to each other but can communicate only through gestures or pictures. In struggling to understand why other players don''t seem to be playing correctly, and with the aid of the facilitator, participants gain insight into the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters.

Erstmalig im deutschen Sprachraum erscheinen Thiagis interaktive Trainingsmethoden mit über 70 Aktivitäten und Texten. Die Methoden eignen sich für berufliche, interkulturelle und politische Bildungsarbeit im Unternehmen, im Klassenzimmer oder im Seminarraum. Sie sind ein Schlüssel für das respektvolle Miteinander in Beruf und Alltag und einfach in der Implementierung. Die Übungen zeichnen sich durch übersichtliche Darstellung aus und sind handlungsorientiert.Die Lernenden werden aktiv einbezogen und zur gemeinsamen Bearbeitung von Themen motiviert.Die Teilnehmer lösen Probleme, erarbeiten Konzepte und entwickeln im Austausch untereinander und mit den Lehrpersonen neue Kompetenzen. Gleichzeitig erweitern die Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen ihre Methodenkompetenzen.Der erste Teil des Buches umfasst Aktivitäten, die nach verschiedenen Seminarphasen sortiert sind: Einstieg, Wachrüttler, interaktive Themenbearbeitung, interaktive Vorträge und interaktives Erzählen, Reflexion sowie Seminarabschluss.Der zweite Teil fokussiert themenspezifische Übungen: interkulturelles Lernen, Umgang mit Vielfalt, Arbeit in Gruppen und Teams sowie Arbeiten in speziellen Seminarformen.Vielseitig anwendbar. Thiagis Übungen sind individuell und ausgestaltbare Rahmenspiele (Framegames). Sie bieten das Gerüst, um verschiedenste Inhalte zu transportieren, und beleben das gemeinsame und kooperative Lernen in vielen Anwendungsbereichen.

Thiagis zweiter Band interaktiver Trainingsmethoden öffnet wieder einen großen Fundus an Übungen für berufliches, interkulturelles und politisches Lernen in Gruppen. Neu hinzugekommen sind die Themen "Innovation und Kreativität" sowie "interaktives Online-Lernen" und Methoden für die Zusammenarbeit in Großgruppen. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei besonders auf erfahrungsbasiertes Lernen und systematische Reflexion. Denn erst Reflexion und situative Einbettung macht die interaktive Übung zu einem wertvollen und hilfreichen Erlebnis. Die vorgestellten Methoden fördern Kooperationsfähigkeit und ein soziales Mit- und Füreinander. Sie eignen sich für Bildungsprozesse im Unternehmen, im Klassenzimmer oder im Seminar- und Tagungsraum. Der erste Teil des Bandes enthält Übungen und Aktivitäten, die nach Seminarphasen strukturiert sind: Einstieg, Wachrüttler, interaktive Themenbearbeitung, interaktives Geschichtenerzählen, interaktive Vorträge, Nachbesprechung, Reflexion und Seminarabschluss. Der zweite Teil ist nach Themen strukturiert. Hier bietet der Band Übungen für interkulturelles Lernen, zum Umgang mit Vielfalt, aber auch für interaktives Online-Lernen sowie Übungen für Großgruppen ab 50 Personen.

Thiagis zweiter Band interaktiver Trainingsmethoden öffnet wieder einen großen Fundus an Übungen für berufliches, interkulturelles und politisches Lernen in Gruppen. Neu hinzugekommen sind die Themen "Innovation und Kreativität" sowie "interaktives Online-Lernen" und Methoden für die Zusammenarbeit in Großgruppen. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei besonders auf erfahrungsbasiertes Lernen und systematische Reflexion. Denn erst Reflexion und situative Einbettung macht die interaktive Übung zu einem wertvollen und hilfreichen Erlebnis. Die vorgestellten Methoden fördern Kooperationsfähigkeit und ein soziales Mit- und Füreinander. Sie eignen sich für Bildungsprozesse im Unternehmen, im Klassenzimmer oder im Seminar- und Tagungsraum. Der erste Teil des Bandes enthält Übungen und Aktivitäten, die nach Seminarphasen strukturiert sind: Einstieg, Wachrüttler, interaktive Themenbearbeitung, interaktives Geschichtenerzählen, interaktive Vorträge, Nachbesprechung, Reflexion und Seminarabschluss. Der zweite Teil ist nach Themen strukturiert. Hier bietet der Band Übungen für interkulturelles Lernen, zum Umgang mit Vielfalt, aber auch für interaktives Online-Lernen sowie Übungen für Großgruppen ab 50 Personen.

This book is for trainers, educators, professors, instructional designers, learning leaders, facilitators, coaches, manager who want to engage their teams, and anyone interested in using activities to facilitate learning.The book is divided into three parts.PART ONE. THE WHAT AND WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO. The authors give you a bit about the Thiagi way of doing things. They provide the framework for how they approach activities and the facilitation of activities. They even give an overview of the science of learning as an opening salvo since learning is the purpose of what they do in the first place. Some of the content will be familiar but updated, given their own latest experiences and the current research out there. Some will be new to readers of their work but hopefully as useful as the previous material.
PART TWO. THE HOW TO DO WHAT WE DO. In this section, the authors really get into the mechanics. How they do instructional design. How they organize their activities. How they choose which activity to use. How to debrief an activity. How to evaluate whether an activity worked, and so forth.PART THREE. THE ACTIVITIES. The authors provide eleven chapters on different interactive strategies. Each contains three to six activities, a total of sixty for the book. These are the eleven they tend to use the most, and they''re the author''s favorites.
The book is a major update of previous books and articles. No Thiagi book has put together both the theory, the mechanics, and the protocols all in one place since the 1990s. Think of this book as the official and most up-to-date Thiagi book.