50 Digital Team-Building Games


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Use technology to increase loyalty and productivity in your employees 50 Digital Team-Building Games offers fun, energizing meeting openers, team activities, and group adventures for business teams, using Twitter, GPS, Facebook, smartphones, and other technology. The games can be played in-person or virtually, and range from 5-minute ice-breakers to an epic four-hour GPS-based adventure. Designed to be lead by managers, facilitators, presenters, and speakers, the activities help teams and groups get comfortable with technology, get to know each other better, build trust, improve communication, and more. No need to be a "techie" to lead these games—they're simple and well-scripted. Author John Chen is the CEO of Geoteaming, a company that uses technology and adventure to teach teams how to collaborate. How to lead a simple, fast, fun team building activity with easy-to-follow instructions How to create successful "virtual" team building that requires NO travel and little to no additional expenses How to engage standoffish engineers, "hard to reach" technical teams, or Gen X/Y teammates with technology they enjoy using Successful technology-based team building can build buzz for your company, build critically important relationships and communication internally, and keep your team talking about it for weeks afterward!




101 Teambuilding Activities


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The activities provided in this book are practical and have been used successfully with a variety of athletic and corporate teams at every level. This book will provide you with a wide variety of fun, meaningful and applicable activities that will enhance teamwork, communication, trust and overall team environment.




101 Training Activities and How to Run Them (B&w)


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Black & White Version. If you are a people manager, trainer, coach or just someone who has to engage people this book is for you. This book of 101 activities, energizers, icebreakers and stories has been designed with over 30 years joint training experience by two corporate trainers who know how hard it can be to keep teams and groups engaged. Whether you are looking to spice up your training courses, energise your team meetings, raise team morale or simply have some fun with your teams this book will help you achieve that. Each activity has a consistent format and is broken down into categories to make it quick and easy for you to find the one that will suit your needs. Activities range from full-on team building and communication activities down to quick fun energisers you can do on the spot. With each activity carefully chosen and laid out to ensure you have maximum opportunity of success, we have also ensured you won't break the bank by needing lots of expensive or complicated materials to run these activities. You may not have the time or budget to run full blown training courses but by using this book there is nothing stopping you from creating more engagement, energy and fun with your teams or groups.




The Big Book of Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things to Do


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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? Now you can spark morale in any work group by choosing from 70 stimulating games and activities specifically designed for the manager who's looking to raise sagging morale in a department, liven up boring staff meetings, enable team members to collaborate smoothly and effectively, and much more!




Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers


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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 successfully Cope with change Solve problems together Communicate better despite cultural and generational differences Boost creativit Leverage diversity Nurture 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.




Affordable Portables


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"A must for educators, counselors and trainers who enjoy and understand the benefits of adventure-based activities. This is a book of initiative activities and problem-solving elements that you can create and use to start your own portable experiential challenge program or enhance the program you already have. All of the ideas here are presented with a tight budget in mind. The purpose is to provide a way for human services providers to afford the benefits challenge programming can offer" -- Cover.




101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving


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Employees who possess problem-solving skills are highly valued in today?s competitive business environment. The question is how can employees learn to deal in innovative ways with new data, methods, people, and technologies? In this groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundy -- a pioneer in the field of idea generation and problem solving -- has compiled 101 group activities that combine to make a unique resource for trainers, facilitators, and human resource professionals. The book is filled with idea-generation activities that simultaneously teach the underlying problem-solving and creativity techniques involved. Each of the book?s 101 engaging and thought-provoking activities includes facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. Using 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving will give you the information and tools you need to: Generate creative ideas to solve problems. Avoid patterned and negative thinking. Engage in activities that are guaranteed to spark ideas. Use proven techniques for brainstorming with groups. Order your copy today.




Quick Teambuilding Activities for Busy Managers


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No experience necessary : Any manager can build great teams with these simple exercises.




101 Great Games and Activities


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Annotation Training dynamite! Training mastermind Arthur VanGundy, author of the best-selling Brain Boosters for Business Advantage, has assembled 101 original games and activities guaranteed to satisfy almost every conceivable training need. These dynamic exercises are accompanied by: * Concise objectives * Recommended uses * Suggested audience * Required time * Necessary materials * Detailed procedures * Potential discussion topics * Possible variations ... and more! Get VanGundy's best-selling game assortment and add these simple, practical, power-packed resources to your training arsenal today!