Written specifically for coaches, this groundbreaking book details dozens of proven strategies for building a championship team in any sport at any level.
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Two training legends offer you a definitive team sourcebook!
The world’s two best-known team-building facilitators bring you over thirty-five cutting-edge activities. You’ll turn to this treasury of hassle-free, sure-fire games, exercises, and simulations time and time again.
“In keeping with the tradition of continuous learning about teamwork, Thiagi and Parker have hit a home run. Teamwork and Teamplay is a must-have for every training bookshelf.”
–Harvey A. Robbins, co-author, Why Teams Don’t Work
“I can think of forty reasons to buy this book: thirty-eight games and activities, each a gem–plus two of the best writers in the training business. I am truly impressed at how well each activity is designed and how easy the rules are to understand.”
–Steve Sugar, author, Games That Teach; president, The Game Group
The game formats are varied: some short, some long; some icebreakers, some closers; and much more! A game selection matrix enables you to find a game that suits your situation. Plus, training legends Thiagi and Parker share with you their proven insights on effective teamwork and facilitation.
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Most company’s change initiatives fail. Yours don’t have to.If you read nothing else on change management, read these 10 articles (featuring “Leading Change”, by John P. Kotter). We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you to:
– Lead change through eight critical stages
– Establish a sense of urgency
– Overcome addiction to the status quo
– Mobilize commitment
– Silence naysayers
– Minimize the pain of change
– Concentrate resources
– Motivate change when business is good
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail” by John P. Kotter, “Change Through Persuasion,” “Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano,” “Radical Change, the Quiet Way,” “Tipping Point Leadership,” “A Survival Guide for Leaders,” “The Real Reason People Won’t Change,” “Cracking the Code of Change,” “The Hard Side of Change Management,” and “Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change.”
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Feeding the Zircon Gorilla is just one of the many team building activities you’ll find included in this book by Sam Sikes. Each activity comes with support material specially designed for easy copying. You’ll find many sample scenarios and game variations that allow you to customize your team building training.
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A core textbook for all modules in Change Management, John Hayes examines and applies all of the key theories on change to organisational settings. Diagnostic tools and immersive learning exercises enable students to identify change and experience various outcomes based on real-world scenarios. The unique experiential learning exercises allow students to reflect on their own experiences of change.Hayes strikes a balance between theory and practice by examining the key theories on change and applying those theories to organisational settings to demonstrate how organisations can develop practical tools to help implement change.
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Is this a Playhouse or a Team Building Tool? I learn more about a person in a day of play, than in a year of conversation. Plato said that. Is that even possible? It is with TOOBEEZ! All ages and abilities love TOOBEEZ. They offer a high play value for kids, teens and adults. They help to develop critical thinking skills, the creative thought process, and are great for team building activities. Involved parents, teachers, trainers, coaches, therapist’ and kids…LOVE the coolest product on the planet!
We also have over 315 activities with learning intentions, and debrief questions!
Our activities cover: Communication, Cooperation, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Diversity, Ethics, Influence, Leadership, Negotiations, People Development, Project Management, Strategic Thinking, and Teamwork. How cool is that! Of course, any activity depends on the learning intention, number of people, and the amount of time available. TOOBEEZ…are tubes and easy! Come visit our library of activities. This 57 piece TOOBEEZ kit also comes with a big storage bag.
The Communicators: Leadership in the Age of Crisis redefines the professional strategies and personal qualities that this current age of incessant crisis demands of leaders in corporate C-suites, boardrooms, courtrooms, and in the corridors of political power. Drawing on dozens of extensive interviews with prominent leaders who describe and reflect on their most significant experiences, Richard Levick and Charles Slack underscore the heightened challenges and instantaneous risks that confront global managers in an age of digital media and intensified regulatory pressure. The book is designed for executives who want to learn from the best practices of others who have so ably responded to the conflicting demands of multiple audiences and stakeholders. In an age defined by crisis and its four horsemen – speed, transparency, media by sequel, and exorcised regulation – the book serves as a survival guide for business leaders and public figures in the eye of the storm. As Steve Forbes points out in his foreword, leadership today is tied as never before to effective communications and to how we respond to crisis. By setting the tone at the top, today’s leaders are the stewards of capitalism.
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With literally 100s of icebreaker questions, dozens of activities and team-building games, this book will help you to use icebreakers with ease, build effective teams and be a team leader who makes things happen. Icebreaker topics include: Getting To Know One Another, Hates & Loves, Hopes & Dreams, Fun Ice Breakers, Icebreakers for Men, Icebreakers for Women and Ideas & Creative Thinking. You’ll learn what makes a good icebreaker and how to avoid icebreaker blunders. In Over 600 Icebreakers & Games, you’ll discover stimulating ways to:- set the right climate use icebreakers the right way introduce groups quickly and easily open conversations with strangers start meetings creatively use icebreakers to get to know your team create a problem solving atmosphere discover your teams strengths and weaknesses break down barriers & boost teamwork skills build trust stimulate communication skills share personal highs and lows think outside the box get results in minutes use fun activities to energize your team Whatever your team or small group is like, this book will give you the tools to build a great team!
Between 20 and 30 million people play fantasy football each year. Now, Fantasy Football: The Next Level goes beyond stats and projections to teach readers a proven approach to drafting and managing a team that succeeds – in any league. Dorey’s wealth of tips, tools and techniques – based on two decades of fantasy football expertise – will help experienced players and newcomers alike win their championships every season.
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Get any training session off the ground fast– or jumpstart one whenever it lags–with the more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from “Tombstone Planning” to “The `Nobel’ Prize Winner,” but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together. Page after page of fun, easy-to-plan tear-out exercises help you: break the ice and get participants acquainted; shake up outworn habits and perceptions; challenge with thought-provoking brainteasers; test learning and retention; develop communication and listening skills; bring out and involve participant-leaders; win back lethargic, distracted, low-energy groups; encourage creative problem-solving; boost or reinforce a group’s self-image; forge cohesive work teams that value group effort; facilitate transfer of training to the job.
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Designed specifically for trainers, speakers and group facilitators, this book features activities – games, quizzes, energizers and brain-teasers – to “break the ice” at the beginning of any meeting, or to recharge participants on the brink of boredom. The activities require little or no preparation and most can be completed in less than five minutes. Also included are props and hand-outs that can be photocopied for the entire group.
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