Get any training session off the ground fastor jumpstart one whenever it lagswith 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 brilliant 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-plant tearout exercises help you: break the ice and get particpants 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 particpant-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.
Dr. John W. Newstrom is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is the coauthor of successful trade books such as the popular Games Trainers Play series for trainers, Transfer of Training, and The Fun Minute Manager. He has jointly prepared The Manager's Bookshelf, Supervision: Managing for Results, Organizational Behavior, and Leaders and the Leadership Process. He and Bob Ford published the popular book, Leading With A Laugh: 101 Funny Stories with 300 Serious Lessons for Managers, Trainers, and Speakers. In total, Newstrom's books have sold over one million copies.
Dr. Newstrom splits his time between his primary home in The Villages, Florida and summer homes in northern Minnesota. For recreation, he enjoys pickleball, golfing, playing cribbage, hunting, genealogy projects, practical jokes, and playing with his granddaughter, Ruth Lillian. He practices the art of neoteny (joyful living), and is an active funologist--someone who studies the nature and effects of fun work environments and personally advocates and uses various forms of humor at work.
