The New Encyclopedia of Icebreakers -- the sequel to the best-selling Encyclopedia of Icebreakers -- gives you 150 innovative activities to energize your training sessions. The book is filled with a variety of activities that will move participants through the stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Use this new collection to help people get acquainted, build teams, address team or group issues, develop effective working relationships, and improve learning and retention of new information. The final chapter presents specific adjourning activities to help you bring closure to your training or group work, increase skills and knowledge transfer, and transition the participants back to the workplace.

This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling The Facilitator Excellence Handbook. Written for both new and experienced facilitators, the second edition of The Facilitator Excellence Handbook offers a comprehensive guide for understanding the full range of skills, processes, and knowledge needed to become an effective facilitator. The book addresses a variety of facilitation opportunities, challenges, and problems and also contains A variety of verbal and nonverbal facilitation techniques Step-by-step facilitation processes and tools Information on how to facilitate conflict resolution in groups and how to facilitate difficult situations Instructions for designing and leading group work Examples of how various levels of facilitator competency are called for in different types of groups Techniques for facilitating meetings, teams, virtual teams, and organization-wide projects Discussions on the art of facilitating and what makes a great facilitator

The New Encyclopedia of Icebreakers -- the sequel to the best-selling Encyclopedia of Icebreakers -- gives you 150 innovative activities to energize your training sessions. The book is filled with a variety of activities that will move participants through the stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Use this new collection to help people get acquainted, build teams, address team or group issues, develop effective working relationships, and improve learning and retention of new information. The final chapter presents specific adjourning activities to help you bring closure to your training or group work, increase skills and knowledge transfer, and transition the participants back to the workplace. "The ebook version does not provide access to the companion files."

Helping groups become their most effective and productive is amajor task for a group leader and facilitator. By immersing groupmembers in active learning experiences that focus on workingtogether to accomplish objectives, group members will learn to drawon their personal insights and integrate this knowledge intopractical applications. The New Encyclopedia of Group Activities–the sequelto the best-selling encyclopedia that was first published more thana decade ago–is an expansive collection of hands-onactivities and games that will help you explore the many elementsof group process skills. This thoroughly revised and updatedresource covers a multitude of content topics that you can use in avariety of group settings. The 150 new activities offer creativeexercises that will give you the tools you need to provideappropriate interventions for any group purpose. Whether searchingfor a serious foundational process activity or for a lighttransitional learning game, you will find something here to meetyour needs. Praise for The New Encyclopedia of GroupActivities "A vast collection of excellent team activities, spanning a widerange of topics! You will find great options . . . at yourfingertips." —Mel Silberman, author, Active Training and The Best ofActive Training "Both new and seasoned training professionals will find TheNew Encyclopedia of Group Activities to be a great addition totheir resource libraries. I find Ms. Ukens' activities to be easyto facilitate and applicable to many different courses andaudiences." —Madeline Collins, independent performance consultantspecializing in teamwork, communication, and customer servicetraining

Teaches you how to prepare, deliver, evaluate, and fine-tune presentations. Features checklists, sample forms and lists of essential training resources.

Select from 75 quick exercises to break down barriers, increase motivation, and provide the best possible start to your training program. The games represent a rich mixture of styles and an extensive range of approaches. There is an index of activities by objective. Fully reproducible participant materials are included to save you hours of preparation time.

Provides facilitators with a large assortment of activities that can be used in many different group settings and for a wide variety of purposes.

This guide includes a wealth of practical information for inexperienced group leaders as well as new tools for seasoned facilitators --more than 100 reproducible forms, checklists, planning aids, and guides. Selected contents are reproduced in CD-ROM format so that you can customize tools to meet your specific needs.