Arthur VanGundy has assembled 101 original games and activities guaranteed to satisfy almost every conceivable training need. The activities are organized into twenty different categories, representing a variety of topics.

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Arthur VanGundy has assembled 101 original games and activities guaranteed to satisfy almost every conceivable training need. The activities are organized into twenty different categories, representing a variety of training topics. They range from icebreakers, climate-settings, and getting-acquainted activities to diversity, team-building, evaluation, and implementation activities. The differing backgrounds of the contributors adds variety that is not possible when activities are written by one or two authors alone.

VanGundy has covered all the bases:

• You want icebreakers? They're here!
• You want leadership and team-building activities? They're here!
• You want interviewing, and goal-setting, and change management games? They're here!
• You want negotiation, and problem-solving, and career development exercises? They're here!

These dynamic exercises are accompanied by:

• Concise objectives
• Recommended uses
• Suggested audience
• Required time
• Necessary materials
• Detailed procedures
• Potential discussion topics
• Possible variations

This manual is housed in an easy-to-photocopy looseleaf format. Over 100 focused, content-reinforcing games and activities distributed among 20 fundamental training topics.

Sample Activity

Objectives:
• To help participants to get to know one another
• To create a nonthreatening environment in which everyone can participate

Uses
This activity is designed to use with new small groups of four or five participants each.

Audience
Any number of participants who do not know one another well.

Time
Ten to fifteen minutes

Handouts, Materials, and Equipment
• A copy of the Let's Get To Know One Another Handout for each participant
• An overhead transparency of the Let's Get To Know One Another Handout
• An overhead projector
• Pens or pencils for each participant

Procedure
1. Welcome the participants and note that people learn most effectively in a supportive and familiar environment.
2. Introduce the activity as a way for people to get to know one another.
3. Distribute a copy of the Let's Get To Know One Another Handout and a pen or pencil to each particpant.
4. Tell the participants that they have ten minutes to mill around the room, asking others all of the questions on the handout and filling in people's names and answers. Ask them to interview as many people as possible and to ask each person at least two different questions. Tell them not to volunteer information, but to wait to be asked.
5. At the end of ten minutes, display the overhead of the questions and go around the room and have people tell the group any new information they have learned about fellow participants. Post answers on the transparency sheet.

Discussion
Ask particpants whether the type of information they have collected will make it easier for them to work together as a team. Lead a discussion of ways they can use what they have learned about one another during the program.

Variation
The facilitator can develop his or her list of questions, either directly relevant to the worshop topic or some combination of related and unrelated informaiton.

348 pages; 11 X 12;three ring hard bound binder

Career Development
Myths
Objects
Occupational Grab Bag
Road Maps

Change Management
Broomstick Demonstration
Creating Aim
Helping Others Deal with Change

Clarifying Expectations
Guaranteed to Fail
The Tie That Binds
We've Got Rhythm
Wall Murals

Climate Setting
Bond and Connect
Feather Talk
Perceptions
Rumperstickers
Vanity Plates

Communication
Do You Hear What I Play?
Incredible Difficulty of Communicating Simple Ideas
Influence, Not Authority
It's Crystal Clear to Me
Language Bias

Creativity
Belt It Out
It Just Doesn't Add Up
More Ideas Than You!
Promoting and Selling Ideas
That's the Worst Idea I've Ever Heard!
Think About It
Tripping

Diversity
Divided or Diversity?
I Believe
It's a Man's World After All
Mandalas
Music Machine
Under the Sea
Valuing Diversity

Energizers
Box of Life
Go Team! RAH!
Hands on Networking
Hugs and Kisses
Meet and Greet
What's My Line?

Evaluation
Benchmarking Team Feelings
Phrase Phases
Pieces of the Puzzle
Showing What We Have Learned
Stand by Me

Getting To Know You
Cartoon Time
Comic Relief
Let's Connect!
Let's Get to Know One Another
Light, Medium, or Heavy
Picture That
Puzzling
Who are these People?

Goal Setting
Goal Pictures
New Hires
Personal Mission Statement
S.M.A.R.T. Basketball

Icebreakers
Boxes of Your Life
Corporate Jester
Handshaking
KNOWU Cards

Implementation
Five Double You's
Mental rehearsal
Sandwich To Go
Taking Ownership of New Ideas

Interviewing
Baptist by Fire
Empowered to Know
Group Interviewing Criteria
More Than One Way To Skin a Question
Taking Charge
Tri-Counseling

Leadership
Follow the World Leader
It All Depends
Leadership Inventory
There Must Be a Leader in This Group

Listening
Been There, Said That
Say What?
Talking Stick
Will We or Won't We

Negotiation
How to Win Over the Boss
Lobbying
More Similar Than Different
Saucy Deal

Problem Solving
I Never Thought of It That Way!
Pipe Cleaner Challenge
Problem As Solution to Another Problem
Things That Rhyme
Whole-Brain Writing

Team Building
Composition
Excuuuse Me!
Get on the Coapbox
Relationship Map
Role Observation Illumination
Secret Coaches
Six Pack

Values
Identifying
Values Roll Call
Value Valuation
Why? Why? Why?