Games Trainers Play (McGraw-Hill Training Series)

By Barbara Zaffran

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 brilliant 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-plant tearout exercises help you: break the ice and get particpants 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 particpant-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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070464081
• ISBN13: 9780070464087
• Release Date: May 1980
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Great book

If you conduct training sessions, this series of books is awesome. Lots of ideas that can be implemented in numerous ways. Buy the whole series.

Superb resource book

I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.

I like it!

So many training guides merely compile the same old activities that have been circulating forever. I was glad to see some really unique activities in here (even though it first came out twenty years ago!). I also found the trainer's introduction pertinent and helpful.If you work in an international context, you'll be especially pleased. Many of the other game compilations have activities that are language (puns, play on...

Excellent resource pack for any business trainer

Excellent resource pack, with a very comprehensive selection of exercises appropriate to many subject areas in business training. I really enjoy trying out new exercises all the time and this pack allows for this.

Excellent

This book is excellent for helping the trainer develop conceptual thinking in staff. Good for lead ins and cooperative education as well.