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- Great for ice breakers and quick teambuilding
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- Superb resource book
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Quick Teambuilding Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes
Brian Cole Miller
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ASIN: 081447201X |
Book Description
Every group can benefit from team-building exercises. But sometimes it's not practical to embark on a full-scale training initiative. Now, supervisors, managers, and team leaders have 50 team-building activities to choose from, all of which can be implemented with no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Readers will find engaging exercises for:
* Building new teams and helping teams with new members * Dealing with change and its effects: anger, fear, frustration, and more * Recognizing individual efforts and team accomplishments * Finding creative ways to work together and solve problems * Increasing and improving communication * Leveraging diversity and individual differences to meet team goals * Keeping competition healthy and productive within the team
Instructions and tips for follow-up and variations are included for each activity, and an additional chapter provides valuable advice for working through unexpected difficulties in team-building.
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Impressive.......2007-09-17
This book really gives good ideas for team building exercises. Not only does it gives you ideas, but also advises on how to manage the activity with an end in mind to get the most out the the exercise.
Great for ice breakers and quick teambuilding.......2007-05-15
We found it easy to make these exercises fit into our industry, fairly well. We were looking for quick ways to get people to work together, from different departments and to respect the value in each other as well as understanding the big picture. Working individually can't happen in some of the exercises. Great job! Thanks for this book.
Excellent career resource.......2007-05-07
We use this in my college library. The teachers and students love it.
Superb resource book.......2007-05-03
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.
Quick Teambuilding Activities.......2007-03-11
Lots of quick, easy to adapt, team building activities to use at your next meeting. I have already used several with minor adaptations and much success! Gets the team energized and ready to move!
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- Great resource for anyone working with teens or teams
- The stuff championships are made out of!!!
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101 Teambuilding Activities: Ideas Every Coach Can Use to EnhanceTeamwork, Communication and Trust
Greg Dale , and
Scott Conant
Manufacturer: Excellence in Performance
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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. Anyone interested in team dynamics will find this book to be a great addition to his or her library of coaching resources.
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Great resource for anyone working with teens or teams.......2007-05-11
I had this book before and someone borrowed it and it never returned so I bought it again...that's how much I loved it! A lot of great activities to use in a number of situations and with a lot of different groups.
The stuff championships are made out of!!!.......2004-11-13
This book has enough activities to fill those preseason teambuilding needs and rainy day alternatives to practice. A must for every coach of every level.
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Cooperative Learning Structures for Teambuilding
Laurie Kagan ,
Miguel Kagan , and
Spencer Kagan
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Teambuilding.......2006-10-06
When students have the desire and ability to work together as a team, something magical happens--Together Everyone Achieves More! Students like working together, academic achievement goes up, and discipline problems become a thing of the past. Includes step-by-step instructions, hints, variations, over 100 teambuilding activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters for each of 14 favorite teambuilding structures like: Find-the-Fib, Team Interview, and Same-Different. Promote a positive class and team atmosphere in your classroom and watch as your students work together in harmony. 178 pages.
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- Teambuilding
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- Teambuilding Basics
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Teambuilding: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook
Cresencio Torres , and
Deborah Fairbanks
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The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook Series presents complete toolkits and instructions for creating effective, personalized training programs. Each individual sourcebook--written by an expert trainer in the field--contains everything needed to design and conduct training sessions. Developed in association with the American Association for Training and Development, the first six sourcebooks cover some of the hottest topics in training, from leadership, to diversity, to team-building.
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Teambuilding.......2005-10-09
This book is well organized and full of useful information. Every component of an outstanding workshop is included and at the readers fingertips.
A true Sourcebook.......2002-01-18
All the titles from the 'ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook' series are excellent. These are books that provide the trainer with a comprehensive reference on the subject matter, ideas on activities and games, as well as other tools.
For the beginning and advanced trainer alike, this is a wonderful and comprehensive book on teambuilding that can also be easily used by non-training professionals.
Teambuilding Basics.......2000-07-17
Excellent book for the novice facilitator as well as the pro! This comprehensive guide takes you through every phase of team development from start to finish. It presents the data in an easy to follow, step-by-step facilitator style. It includes reproducable handouts and slides. An excellent resource for establishing teams! I recommend all of the training guides in the series of ASTD Sourcebooks. I've used them all!
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- Consensus through Conversation
- From Richard Kramer-Organizational Develoment Specialist-ORG
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- A convert to the power of consensus
- Accessible and Profound
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Consensus Through Conversation: How to Achieve High-Commitment Decisions
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Consensus is fast becoming one of business' most popular-but most widely mis-understood decision-making models. By involving people in the decisions that impact their work, companies develop a passionate team of workers, one that is committed to a future they’ve helped shape. This useful guide leads managers, consultants, and facilitators through the consensus-building process. It shows how to avoid common pitfalls like false agreement and the “illusion of inclusion.” For anyone charged with getting groups to fruitful resolution on important issues, Consensus Through Conversation offers an invaluable reference.
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Consensus through Conversation.......2007-03-24
This book offers both a thoughtful and pragmatic approach to consensus decision making. Dressler is particularly adept at inviting leaders to explore their goals, values, and beliefs with regard to a given issue while then guiding them through a clear methodology. He is careful to describe consensus decision making as one of many choices, not a one size fits all approach. The brevity of the book, his depth of knowledge, and the icons he uses (key point, tool, case examples, and sounds like) all add up to a clear and crisp reading experience--not unlike a great wine.
From Richard Kramer-Organizational Develoment Specialist-ORG.......2006-12-01
Effective, collaborative decision making practices are key in supporting organization effectiveness. Larry Dressler is an expert facilitator. He has successfully translated his art into clearly articulated strategy, highlighting the dimension of consensus decision making. This book is focused, clearly written, and a very quick read. It will be a great resource as facilitators refer back to the book for assistance. Wonderful work communicating the balance of art and science in group process!
Community-Based Planning Consultant's Perspective.......2006-11-23
As a consultant who works with coalitions and partnerships of people from different organizations and community sectors, I am very appreciative of the systematic approach Dressler provides for achieving consensus in decision-making. It is important that groups feel that the process they engage in to think through problems and make decisions is inclusive of the diversity of perspectives in the room, and is also effective at achieving results that facilitate progress. This book provides the framework and methodology to produce both those outcomes.
A convert to the power of consensus.......2006-11-16
I began this book with a healthy dose of skepticism. On more than one occasion I've been involved in "consensus" decision-making processes that were less than stellar. (As an employee, a board member, a community member and business owner.) In the hands of an unskilled, or manipulative, or misguided (or worse, downright deceitful) facilitator a so-called consensus decision-making process can leave you feeling like your pocket has been picked. You know exactly what I mean. When you finish the "process" and feel like you've been hoodwinked into agreeing to something because:
- You didn't fully understand the scope of the issue you are supposed to be dealing with.
- People with important information about the issue weren't in the room.
- A manager who is worried about his ox getting gored has set the whole thing up to "share the blame" for some no-win problem he doesn't know how to solve.
- You could never get a word in edgewise after your first stated concern stamped you as "not a team player."
- And it was clear the boss wasn't going to go along with the decision the group made anyway!
Well, the author not only educated me about what real consensus looks like, I feel like I've been inoculated against the toxic variety. The book, as mentioned in another review, is lean and mean. But there is plenty of substance to chew on, including:
- A useful comparison of different decision making methods, along with their strengths and weaknesses.
- A clear explanation of the considerable power of a consensus process. (Not the least of which is accelerated implementation of a decision.)
- Succinct guidelines on how to start a consensus meeting off on the right foot.
- Clear suggestions on how a multi-stage consensus process can be organized.
- Specific strategies for dealing with people who engage in unproductive behavior. You know them as obstructionists, grandstanders, and those who sit silently waiting to strike with critical comments just when it seems the group is making progress.
Perhaps the greatest value I found in this book is that it will steer me away from making the same mistakes I have seen other well-intentioned decision facilitators make time and again. Like not paying attention to simple and obvious things such as laying down ground rules for how people will communicate as they work toward a consensus. The author even puts words in your mouth by giving you on-point language to use just for this and other such occasions you will encounter while leading or participating in a consensus process.
The information is so accessible and useful beyond the topic of consensus that I have no doubt that I will wear this book out in no time. The pages are already dog-eared and the spine is creased. Thankfully I haven't dropped it in the tub yet.
Accessible and Profound.......2006-11-16
For anyone convening a meeting - this is the perfect book to read in preparation. Great reminders and insights on how to create a safe place for inquiry and creativity as well as thoughtful decisions. I found tips on ways to prevent and intervene when challenges to consensus arise particularly useful. I love how it is organized and it is the perfect size for 2 hour airplane trips.
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- Great Coach - Average Book
- Still dont know what it was about
- Michels Worthy of Title - "FIFA's Coach of The Century"
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Teambuilding: The Road to Success
Rinus Michels
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All the facets of the team building process, including team tactics and psychology, are included down to the smallest detail. Also included is how youth talent, per age group category, should be developed. And finally, how to set up training sessions to achieve the best results.
This book is a valuable reference for everyone who is, on a daily basis, involved with the team building process: from professional and youth coaches to managers in the business world.
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Great Coach - Average Book.......2006-08-04
This book is certainly not a "page-turner" and sometimes I barely wanted to open it, just looking forward to a more interesting coaching book.
Rinus Michels was probabaly a very good coach and had great success with the Dutch national team as a coach during 70s (reached WC FInal 1978 in Argentine) and 80s and obviously has had a great impact on the evolution of Dutch soccer including sucessfull wotk with the Dutch FA and Dutch Youth soccer.
He mentions a lot of interesting things that can be worth taking into account about how the Dutch youth setup is working and what things are important to know about youth soccer in general. I.e At what age you should do that and don't do that
But this book hardly contains any really good exercices to improve your teambuilding. There are only a few exercises in the book and no pictures or diagrams to help you really understand what the exercises is all about. Overall, teambuilding is a broad topic but I felt I would have gained more experience and insight in teambuilding reading this book.
It should also be known that this book mostly cover dutch soccer and that sometimes can be a bit frustrating. For a genuine soccer fan you would have anticipated that he would have learned a lot from his time as a coach of FC Barcelona but barely mention that spell of his life in "Teambuilding". But I suppose he writes about what he knows best.
I don't want to say that you sholdn't read this book because there is always something that you learn with a soccer coaching book that you can apply in soccer on a daily basis. There are always things to pick up but there are for sure better books out there if you want to be a better soccer coach.
Still dont know what it was about.......2006-02-18
This book is way to complicated and doesnt really do anything to get to success. It is all about high levels of soccer and nothing the normal coach can related to.
Michels Worthy of Title - "FIFA's Coach of The Century".......2004-02-03
Rinus Michel's book, together with Bert Van Lingen's book "Coaching Soccer" provide the framework of the "Dutch Vision" of how to coach soccer. This book is a fantastic resource for any soccer coach at any level, any convenor at the youth soccer level, or any person tasked with administering a soccer program.
Michels explains the vital importance of small-sided (4v4) games in teaching young players how to play soccer, establishes objectives for the technical development of young players by age group, discussed systems of play, and gives real-life examples of how to manage the dynamics of professional and international teams.
This may well be the most important soccer book ever written.
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Secrets of a Leadership Coach 5 Practice and Assessments Library Edition: The Coaching and Leadership Techniques of Marshall Goldsmith, Illustrated With ... Teambuilding, For Every Manager and Employee
Daniel Farb
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Secrets of a Leadership Coach is a premium leadership training series that brings the wisdom of one of America's top CEO coaches to every employee and manager. The series has hundreds of video clips, role plays, and animations. Secrets of a Leadership Coach 5 Practice and Assessments, the fifth course in the series, contains exercises that help one solidify the concepts of courses 1-4. Pre- and post-course assessments allow the learner to look at his progress. In addition, this course has practical exercises that help the student develop his own responses to situations involving behavioral problems. In the process, this course takes the learner through the development of his or her personal action plan, which is compiled at the end of the course. This is very useful when used alone but is preferentially taken as part of the package of courses in Secrets of a Leadership Coach. 129 pages on the CD and 32 in the manual. The manual accompanying the CD provides a summary of the major points of the CD in a handy format. You must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher running on your computer. Supported operating systems are Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, or XP. The CD is licensed to play once on any Windows computer; the borrower may purchase the program after that. One library reference activation is included in the price.
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Innovation at the Speed of Laughter: 8 Secrets to World Class Idea Generation
Manufacturer: Expert Publishing, Inc.
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Bridging the gap between creative innovation and workplace application, Americas oldest satirical comedy theatre shares with you the secrets that have helped companies like 3M, Disney, American Express, Texas Instruments, and hundreds of others increase the quality and quantity of employee ideas. Written by John Sweeney, owner of the Brave New Workshop, "Innovation at the Speed of Laughter" introduces readers to eight simple principles that have irrefutably led individuals, teams, and entire companies to think, and act upon their thoughts, more creatively. Using concrete client case studies, individual testimonials, and a no-nonsense writing style, Sweeney establishes this book as a must-read for business leaders. To date, some of the world's most innovative companies have applied the practical applications detailed in this book to all areas of their organization (independent of company size or industry) to achieve greater productivity and build more creative work teams and environments. "We all seek to employ the best minds in our businesses but what good is it if we dont encourage those minds to fly to new places and create new and better ways of seeing things? 'Innovation at the Speed of Laughter' is a toolkit of techniques guaranteed to unleash new ideas, written by one of the most consistently creative teams in comedy theatre." -Marilyn Nelson Carlson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Carlson Companies
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Secrets of a Leadership Coach Library Edition: The Coaching and Leadership Techniques of Marshall Goldsmith, Illustrated with Video, Teaching Executive ... Teambuilding, For Every Manager and Employee
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Foreword Reviews, October 2004 Four Star Review: "A learning environment similar to being in a live, participative workshop. Useful and relevant." Foreword Reviews, October, 2004 "A learning environment similar to being in a live, participative workshop. Useful and relevant." Four star rating. --This text refers to the Plastic Comb edition.
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Unusable.......2007-10-08
I purchased this product and as you can see it is not cheap. First, all I received for the $200+ was a disc. Then, as soon as I tried to load it onto my computer, the computer froze up and had to be repaired. I assumed this was just coincidence but as soon as I put it back into my computer it started happening again. I did get to access the program once and it said I had to register it with a key provided and my name "exactly as I had stated it when I placed the order". Since I have no idea how I stated my name "exactly" it rejected my registration and then proceeded to lock up my computer everytime I attempted to run the program again. It even locked up the computer when I tried to remove the program.
This is really one of those "buyer beware." I am planning to report this to Amazon as I think they should consider removing it from their offerings.
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- Affordable Learning and Useful Ideas!
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Successful Teambuilding (Barron's Business Success Series)
Graham Willcocks , and
Steve Morris
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This book offers career-minded men and women advice on succeeding at all levels of management, marketing, and other areas within the business and corporate world.
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Affordable Learning and Useful Ideas!.......2000-04-19
The first impression is the price of this book. I got it simply because it didn't cost me a great deal. However, under the cover... I found great reading and pages of useful ideas. Easy and enjoyable reading. Each chapter is comprehensive in the subject matter, well organised and may great sense on its own, Hoever, the chapters also flowed well together in the end, with a common goal -- better team management/building. I have been in the profession for about 2 years now, and I can really appreciate the examples and suggestions in the book. It is a great book as a general read for those who is interested in the field, and a handy reminder-book to have for those who need a breath of fresh air now and then.
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