Games to Jumpstart workplace creativity. Dr. Robert Epstein's Creativity Games for Trainers arms you with 30 innovative, entertaining games guaranteed to enhance creativity in any organizational setting. Use them to develop creativity workshops or to breathe life into any training sessions. Each ready-to-use activity comes complete with lists of required and optional materials, time recommendations, reproducible handouts, follow-up discussion questions, and other essential information. You'll also find simple instructions for customizing exercises to different settings. . .data collection forms to help measure and track success. . .special ``challenge exercises'' that help participants develop their own games. . .and unique ``application exercises'' to assist users in promoting creativity on their own.
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Robert Epstein, Ph.D. (San Diego, CA) is Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today, host of the magazine's nationally-syndicated radio show, and University Research Professor at United States International University. Dr. Epstein holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and his research has been reported in Time, The New York Times, and Discover. His popular articles have appeared in The Washington Post and Reader's Digest.
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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A different approach,
By Alex S.H. Cheung (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (Paperback)
This book focuses on the stimuli (inputs/old ideas) and effective capaturing of responses (outputs/creative ideas) vs most other books about creativity focus on the thinking process, like mindmapping, six hats, thinking toys, etc. Thus, it directs to a total different path of how we build an environment to boost creativity. My analogy is no matter what thinking process you introduce, a group of housewives cannot invent a racket to reach the moon (don't get me wrong, I highly respect housewives for their contribution to families). It's the relevancy and variety of the inputs that matters.I guess the author is a behaviourist who see thinking process as black box, i.e. non-observable and non-measurable. Thus, he only concentrates on the observable and measurable stimuli and responses. I am a trainer for creativity for my company. I find this book very useful. The only complaint is that not all the games are up to my personal standard: able to demonstrate the theory AND able to energize the participants. All in all, I highly recommand this book. You will see creativity in a different angle.
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This review is from: Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (Paperback)
I've used Epstein's book together with Michalko's "Thinkertoys," in my creative thinking seminars with great success. You can't fail with these two books.
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uninspired, dry and clinical,
By Creativity Counselor (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (Paperback)
A book about creativity, that lacks spark and "creativity" - it's too dry and clinical to be an enjoyable read and the exercises are uninspired. This material is dispassionate and lacks the flame it promises to ignite in others. As much as I admire the author's 15 years of clinical research, this book fall short in it's execution.
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Creativity Games is structured to make life easy-or at least to make creativity easy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiple controlling stimuli, controlled failure systems, break while the team, capturing skills, multiple repertoires, capturing machine, please sketch, fax this form, hurt creativity, eliciting suggestions, enormous creative potential, specific organizational settings, particular organizational setting, diverse training, second volunteer, quality editor, promoting creativity, additional ten minutes, ten methods, special modifications, novel behavior, experiment with the way, everyone creative, alphabet blocks, multiple behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Design Challenge, Customizing the Procedure For Small Groups, Time Requirement Minimum, Workplace Challenge, Brief Description Participants, Basic Procedure Trainer, Debriefing Trainer, Generativity Theory, The Toys-as-Tools Game, The News-You-Can-Use Game, The Audience Game, The Random Doodles Game, Data Collection Form, Data Collection Trainers, Team Two, The Anonymous Suggestion Game, Better Capturing Machine, The Not-for-the-Fainthearted Game, The Shifting Game, The Srtcdjgjklered Game, The Ultimate Challenge Game, Other Options Participants, Team One, Basic Procedure Part One New!
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Creativity Games is structured to make life easy-or at least to make creativity easy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiple controlling stimuli, controlled failure systems, break while the team, capturing skills, multiple repertoires, capturing machine, please sketch, fax this form, hurt creativity, eliciting suggestions, enormous creative potential, specific organizational settings, particular organizational setting, diverse training, second volunteer, quality editor, promoting creativity, additional ten minutes, ten methods, special modifications, novel behavior, experiment with the way, everyone creative, alphabet blocks, multiple behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Design Challenge, Customizing the Procedure For Small Groups, Time Requirement Minimum, Workplace Challenge, Brief Description Participants, Basic Procedure Trainer, Debriefing Trainer, Generativity Theory, The Toys-as-Tools Game, The News-You-Can-Use Game, The Audience Game, The Random Doodles Game, Data Collection Form, Data Collection Trainers, Team Two, The Anonymous Suggestion Game, Better Capturing Machine, The Not-for-the-Fainthearted Game, The Shifting Game, The Srtcdjgjklered Game, The Ultimate Challenge Game, Other Options Participants, Team One, Basic Procedure Part One New!
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- The Theory of Relativity: & Other Essays by Albert Einstein on page 16
- Cognition, Creativity, and Behavior: Selected Essays by Robert Epstein in Back Matter
- The Decline and Fall of Hemispheric Specialization (Lea's Communication) by Robert Efron on page 33
- Creative Utopia: 12 Ways to Realize Total Creativity by Theo Stephan Williams in Back Matter
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