Feeding the Zircon Gorilla: And Other Team Building Activities [Paperback]

Sam Sikes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1995

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Feeding the Zircon Gorilla is just one of the 38 innovative team building activities you'll find in this collection of new experiential activities. All are real-world based and can be used to meet a variety of team building needs. -- Book Description

About the Author

Sam Sikes is the co-founder of Learning Unlimited Corporation in Tulsa, a training organization that specializes in experiential learning techniques. Sam trains, facilitates, and speaks nationwide in a variety of corporate and educational settings including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and universities. Best known for his creativity, Sam has trained groups as few as two people and as many as three thousand. He trains challenge course facilitators, corporate trainers and develops related indoor and outdoor training for adults. He is active in organizations such as the Association for Experiential Education and the American Society for Training and Development. In 2000, Sam received the "Karl Rohnke Creativity Award" from the Association for Experiential Education. Best known for his creativity, Sam Sikes trains and facilitates for a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Sam also conducts trainer workshops to teach others to use any of the activities from his books. . . and more.

Sam has a Master's Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and has been in the training field for more than a decade.

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Learning Unlimited Corporation; 1st edition (June 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964654105
• ISBN-13: 978-0964654105
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #595,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of ideas for team building & problem solving activities, September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Feeding the Zircon Gorilla: And Other Team Building Activities (Paperback)

This book is a must-have for any trainer. Sam Sikes takes a fun, creative approach to team building and problem solving activities. The activities presented run the gamut of activities from those requiring few props, to high challenge activities for ropes courses. There are activities that are adapatable for children's groups to adults. I have used a number of these activities in team building activities, and participants have always found the activities to be valuable -- and fun!

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Go, Go, Gorilla!, February 25, 2000

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Donna Tate (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feeding the Zircon Gorilla: And Other Team Building Activities (Paperback)

Feeding the Zircon Gorilla is but one of the most fun teambuilding games included in this book. Sam Sikes rides again as he shares with us more really creative, group, brain teasers! The fun part is - you simply cannot win as an individual, you must work as a team to succeed! The game props can be made with everyday, around the house kind of stuff - nothing else to buy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but complicated, November 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Feeding the Zircon Gorilla: And Other Team Building Activities (Paperback)

Some of the activities here were great but only a handful were easy to perform in an office setting with minimal setup. Great if you have a whole day to spend on a series of activities and preferably an outdoor setting, but in corporate teams with little space they could be a challenge.