Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers
Amacom (Verlag)
978-0-8144-3633-2 (ISBN)
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.
BRIAN COLE MILLER is the principal of Working Solutions, Inc., a management training and consulting firm whose clients include Nationwide Insurance, Kellogg's, and the Ohio State University. He is the author of Keeping Employees Accountable for Results and other popular books.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Getting Ready
CHAPTER 1.How to Run a Successful Team-Building Activity 9
STEP 1.
BEFORE: SELECT AN ACTIVITY THAT'S GOOD FOR YOUR TEAM 9
STEP 2.
BEFORE: PREPARE FOR YOUR TEAM-BUILDING ACTIVITY 10
STEP 3. DURING: EXPLAIN THE ACTIVITY TO THE TEAM 11
STEP 4.
DURING: CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING BEFORE BEGINNING 13
STEP 5. DURING: RUN THE ACTIVITY 14
STEP 6. DURING: DEBRIEF THE ACTIVITY 15
STEP 7.
AFTER: REINFORCE THE LEARNING BACK ON THE JOB 16
CHAPTER 2.What Could Go Wrong in a Team-Building Activity 19
Part II. The Activities
CHAPTER 3.Communication: Listening and Influencing 31
CARD TRIANGLES 32
COPY CAT 35
LISTEN UP 39
ME, MYSELF, AND I 42
NAPKINS 45
ORIGAMI 48
SHARED VALUES 51
CHAPTER 4.Connecting: Getting to Know Each Other 55
GOSSIP TIME 56
HUMAN BILLBOARDS 59
MY N.A.M.E. 62
NEIGHBORS 64
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS 67
RATHER THAN 70
READY, SET, REORGANIZE! 73
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES 76
SWEET STORIES 79
CHAPTER 5.Cooperation: Working Together as a Team 83
CATCH! 84
COUNT OFF 87
FLOOR DESIGNS 89
HELIUM STICK 92
PASS THE CARD 95
POPCORN 98
PUZZLED 100
STAR POWER 103
CHAPTER 6.Coping: Dealing with Change 105
BRIDGES AND TOWERS 106
CHANGE TIME LINE 109
INDEX TOWERS 112
MACHINES 115
MAKEOVERS 117
MY ABC'S 119
NUMBERS 122
PUZZLED THUMBS 124
SQUARES 127
CHAPTER 7.Creativity: Solving Problems Together 131
BALLOON SCULPTURES 132
CARD STACK 134
CONSULTANTS 137
IMPROVE THIS 140
MAGIC CARPET RIDE 143
ONE-WORDED STORIES 146
PAPER SHUFFLE 149
CHAPTER 8.Teamwork: Appreciating and Supporting Each Other 151
BLAME GAME 152
BUT NOTHING (FEEDBACK) 155
BUT NOTHING (IDEAS) 158
ENVELOPES 161
FIRST IMPRESSIONS 164
JUNK TO JEWELS 167
KUDOS 170
LABELS 174
THANK-YOU CARDS 177
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT ME 180
Index 183
About the Author 189
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.3.2018 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 235 g |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8144-3633-1 / 0814436331 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8144-3633-2 / 9780814436332 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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