Icebreakers, Energizers, and Activities

A Compendium of Icebreakers, Energizers & Introductions

Activity Manual

Select from 75 quick exercises to break down barriers, increase motivation, and provide the best possible start to your training program. Compiled by a team of five trainers with a wide variety of experience, the games represent a rich mixture of styles and an extensive range of approaches. Learn more

50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises

Best-Seller!

Communication plays such a big part in our lives today. Yet sometimes we get busy and forget just how important communication is to our success, relationships and happiness.

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The New Encyclopedia of Icebreakers

368 pages / August 2011

The New Encyclopedia of Icebreakers -- the sequel to the best-selling Encyclopedia of Icebreakers -- gives you 150 innovative activities to energize your training sessions. The book is filled with a variety of activities that will move participants through the stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Use this new collection to help people get acquainted, build teams, address team or group issues, develop effective working relationships, and improve learning and retention of new information. The final chapter presents specific adjourning activities to help you bring closure to your training or group work, increase skills and knowledge transfer, and transition the participants back to the workplace.

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101 Games for Trainers Package

101 classroom-tested games, exercizes, and activities that add spark and energy to your training sessions. PLUS 101 more games that will engage participants and bring weary participants back to life. Every trainer runs into that situation where participants hit the wall. These games and activities will splash excitement back into your audience and reenergize your training.

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Games That Boost Performance

From one of the world s foremost game designers comes a book that contains a collection of newly-designed and field-tested games. Steve Sugar shows how, with practice and learning reinforcement, these dynamic games can enhance individual and team development in the areas of prioritizing, problem solving, decision-making, communication, and collaboration. A valuable Game-to-Outcome chart helps facilitators match the appropriate game to the desired learning outcome and intended audience. Also included are a CD-ROM and instructor s guide, handouts, and overhead masters you can easily reproduce. Learn more

Compendium of Icebreakers Volume 3: Beginnings and Endings

70 exercises to add energy and fun to training and learning Compendium of Icebreakers Volume III Beginnings and Endings Michèle Barca & Kate Cobb How you begin and end a training course is vital and shouldn’t be left to chance. Learn more

101 More Great Games and Activities (Loose-Leaf)

Like that original publication, 101 More Great Games & Activities is filled with highly accessible group activities, icebreakers, energizers, and closers. This new resource is written to appeal to today’s trainers and includes exercises that address timely topics such as career development, change management, clarifying expectations, climate setting, communication, creativity, diversity, evaluation, goal setting, implementation, interviewing, leadership, listening, negotiation, problem solving, team building, and clarifying values. Learn more

Compendium of Icebreakers Volume 2 Connections: 125 Activities for Faultless Training - Binder/Book

Are you maximizing every opportunity to connect with participants before, during and after training? This is the key to optimizing the learning experience of every individual – and the focus of these 125 tested and proven-effective activities for trainers. Learn more

Pfeiffer's Classic Activities for Diversity Training

Pfeiffer s Classic Activities for Diversity Training provides a wide range of approaches -- activities, exercises, and models -- to help understand and leverage a diverse workforce. This essential resource offers a valuing approach that puts the emphasis on reframing diversity in the workplace as an opportunity to improve organizational performance. A compilation of material carefully chosen from three decades of the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks, Pfeiffer s Classic Activities for Diversity Training is a treasure chest of sound theory and practical tools that can be put to use immediately whether you're a trainer or a consultant Learn more

All New Tricks For Trainers

57 tricks, brainteasers, and puzzlers, designed to amaze your training audience and hold their attention. Filled with openings and energizers to energize the audience and lay a foundation for improved retention of new material. Learn more

Experiential Training Activities for Outside and In

Use these physically engaging activities in a fresh air, outdoor setting as a stimulating change of pace for your training sessions. Learn more

Quick Wits

This compendium of activities will add real value to your training by taking critical thinking skills out of the box and into the workplace. Learners will sharpen their critical thinking skills and develop a thought process that are creative, accurate, and assumption-free.

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The New Encyclopedia of Group Activities, CD-ROM Included

2011 Release

Helping groups become their most effective and productive is a major task for a group leader and facilitator. By immersing group members in active learning experiences that focus on working together to accomplish objectives, group members will learn to draw on their personal insights and integrate this knowledge into practical applications.

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Training House Reproducible Games and Simulations

Hands-on experience is the name of the game with this unique spectrum of learning opportunities!

This diverse collection of reproducible games and simulations makes learning a fun and participative way for employees to gain experience in the key concepts and skills essential to their success in the workplace. It is an ideal resource for trainers looking for a creative way to instill new ideas and skills, but who do not have the time to develop a new game on their own. This valuable assortment of 18 unique training games is ready-to-use and includes clear objectives, detailed instructor guidelines and reproducible materials for participants.

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50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization

This title is divided into five sections. Each section has ten exercises designed to stimulate discussion and promote inquiry regarding business ethics. Learn more

WorkPlay: 36 Indoor/Outdoor Actvities for Leadership, Team Building, and Problem Solving

Have you noticed how employees get engaged faster and learn better when the training process is fun? Now, with this facilitator-friendly handbook, you can inject play you’re your training to accomplish a variety of learning objectives and make learning fun and memorable. Learn more

The New Fieldbook for Trainers - Binder/Book

This innovative book is a gold mine of field-tested principles, activities, instruments, and designs. Learn more

New Sales Game Workshop

The New Sales Game is a highly interactive, one-day, facilitated program that uses presentations, group discussion, games, and activities to help sales representatives better understand their customers and develop strategies to become more effective solution providers. Learn more

Team Workout

“Parker and Kropp have done it again. This is another great resource of powerful and easy to use teaming exercises. This is a must for anyone facilitating team building sessions. Update your library today.” Learn more

Great Games for Trainers

Add new life to your training programs! Here's a collection of 75 games that will reinvigorate any training session. There is something here for every trainer and every training situation - from light-hearted energizers to thought-provoking closure activi ties. Learn more

Do Right! The Plan - DVD

Produced - 2006

In 1988, Lou Holtz filmed Do Right an examination of the three values at the heart of his success. Shortly thereafter, Do Right became the best selling corporate film in America.

In Do Right The Plan, Lou Holtz illustrates the way to apply these values to achieve individual and organizational success. Through trial and error, victory and defeat, every success begins with two things: a vision and a plan. Learn more

Grand Canyon Adventures Package: DVD Version

This team building simulation will take participants on an unforgettable learning adventure! Set in the Grand Canyon, these video management training DVDs offer team building activities for groups, and provide an adventurous backdrop for enthusiastic participant involvement and memorable skill building. Learn more

50 Activities for Creativity and Problem Solving

These reproducible activities develop creative thinking, offer new approaches to problem solving, and develop innovative approaches to problems that aren't responding to traditional methods. Learn more

The Encyclopedia of Games for Trainers

This collection of over 145 group games will get participants involved in the learning process and add substance to new or existing programs on any training topic. Learn more

50 + Activities to Teach Negotiation

Best-Seller!

This book contains a variety of fully reproducible exercises to teach and reinforce the skills necessary to be a successful negotiator. Each Activity includes a detailed description of the exercise, the steps to follow, additional resources and lecture notes for the trainer.

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