Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes

By Brian Cole Miller

Book Overview

Eliminate the need for time or resources on formal training and get your teams up and running themselves--with only minutes of prep.

Between workplace personnel being more culturally diverse than ever before, a generation of employees being raised attached to technology while avoiding human interaction, and an increasing culture of competitiveness that is constantly raising tensions between cubicles, it has become absolutely essential for managers to focus more on camaraderie and building team spirit.

Now in its second edition, Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers addresses the problems that drag down group productivity and helps teams:

Collaborate successfullyCope with changeSolve problems togetherCommunicate better despite cultural and generational differencesBoost creativitLeverage diversityNurture healthy competition

Each of the 50 team-building activities in this invaluable resource takes only minutes to prep and uses only everyday office items to get its point across. In just 15 minutes a day, the results will be immediate: sullen teams find sparkle, nervous teams gain confidence, teams of strangers get to know one another.

There are even activities to help the virtual team No one will be left out, and all with leave the activity feeling better about their team and their individual role within it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814436331
• ISBN13: 9780814436332
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher