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Quick Teambuilding Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes (Paperback)
by Brian Cole Miller
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Team building, Team work, Organization |
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Clear and concise, the whole book is written in bullets. A great resource to help you to plan and organize team building activiries. |
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Author: Brian Cole Miller
Publisher: American Management Association; 1st edition
Pub. in: November, 2003
ISBN: 081447201X
Pages: 171
Measurements: 8.9 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00514
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Text presents 50 fun, practical exercises that don't require any special facilities, expensive products, or previous training experience to get great results in minutes.
For the money, this is one of the best activity books you will find. All of the activities are easy to set up and easy to complete - but they do all serve a purpose. When the author says that these are 15 minute activities, he means it.
A valuable reference for every manager, supervisor, and training professional.
Target readers:
Managers, Management consultants, and HR professionals.
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Brian Cole Miller (Dublin, OH) is the owner of Working Solutions, a management and training consultant firm whose clients include Nationwide Insurance, Mailboxes Etc., and Burger King. He is former director of training and development at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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From the Publisher:
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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Training Media Review (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
An excellent primer on how to conduct and debrief his well-designed activities. |
Roger Herman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
This book brings together several mutually-supportive elements: managers with heavy, fast-moving schedules; team members who want to feel a greater sense of belonging; and an era that demands higher levels of collaboration… eamwork.
The book is organized into two parts. The first section is instructional; the second section consists of bullet-pointed presentations of fifty short easy-to-run exercises. The opening section has two chapters that are worth the price of the book all by themselves: How to Run a Successful Team- Building Activity and What Could Go Wrong with a Team-Building Activity. What a sense of security this section gives managers: these activities are simple to use...and your experience is practically fail-safe.
Each of the activities is presented using the same format. The bullet-point sections are This is, The Purpose is, Use This When, Materials You'll Need, Here's How, For Example, Ask these Questions, Tips for Success, and Try these Variations. It doesn't get much more comfortable than this! Understanding today's work environment, Miller promises no role-lays, demonstrations, outdoor activities, handouts, or touchy-feely stuff. The activities are organized by areas of need: Communication, Connecting, Cooperation, Coping, Creativity, and Teamwork. A strong index complements the well-organized table of contents, making the volume highly user-friendly.
Recommended for managers and supervisors, as well as training and development professionals. Consultants will also find this tool to be useful as they work to bring people together to achieve results. Everything is explained so that the exercises can be led by laymen or by professionals. A wide variety of tools is offered, enabling the reader/user to choose the experience that will be best for the participants and the circumstances. |
Caroline Cofer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
This book is terrific and so, so easy to use! How many times are you asked to add some sort of quick teambuiling exercise to a meeting and you have to scour your brain to come up with new ones that won't get groans from the team? This is the perfect solution for on-the-spot energy boosting activities. The author really understands "busy managers!" |
Sally Struthers (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I am an Office Manager for a large busy Real Estate Office of 100 Agents and they are all independant Contractors basically and must rely primarily on self motivating activities to assure a sucessful business however it is my job to assist them in every way possible. Our Office meetings are extrememly important in that aspect, I have to try and top myself each week with some NEW Fresh motivational activities which I find in that little book!! It makes my life so much easier and the Agents Love the short but EFECTIVE activities. It's worth whatever I spent for it. |
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