Working Together: 55 Team Games [Paperback]

Lorraine L. Ukens (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 20, 1996 | ISBN-10: 078790354X | ISBN-13: 978-0787903541 | Edition: 1

Strengthen team bonds with friAndly competition

Take your team to a higher level of performance with a healthy dose of competition. These stimulating activities provide lessons in determination, teamwork, and planning-all critical elements in achieving high performance.

Each game includes everything you need to conduct the activity, including instructions, materials required, time required, and reproducible worksheets or material templates. Each is categorized into one of these topics: change, communication, conflict resolution, data analysis, decision making, leadership, perception, problem solving, strategic planning, and time pressure.

These simple games will help you:


* Encourage members to cooperate and use all members' abilities
* Motivate individuals to maximize their contribution
* Demonstrate the benefits of cooperative competition
* Prepare your team to meet future challenges
* Emphasize teamwork as a means to a solution over winning


Use these games to enhance cooperation, resourcefulness, decision making, efficiency, and initiative in your team today!

Start your training on the right track and keep it there!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Take your team to a higher performance level with a healthy dose of competition. These stimulating activities provide lessons in determination, teamwork, and planning all critical elements in achieving high performance.These simple games will help you: Encourage members to cooperate and use all members' abilities Motivate individuals to maximize their contribution Prepare your team to meet future challenges...and more! Everything you need to conduct each activity is included.Use them to enhance cooperation, resourcefulness, decision making, efficiency, and initiative in your team today!

From the Back Cover

Take your team to a higher performance level with a healthy dose of competition. These stimulating activities provide lessons in determination, teamwork, and planning all critical elements in achieving high performance.

These simple games will help you:

• Encourage members to cooperate and use all members' abilities
• Motivate individuals to maximize their contribution
• Prepare your team to meet future challenges...and more!
• Everything you need to conduct each activity is included.

Use them to enhance cooperation, resourcefulness, decision making, efficiency, and initiative in your team today!

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (November 20, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078790354X
• ISBN-13: 978-0787903541
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,899,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lorraine Ukens is the owner of Team-ing With Success, which specializes in team building and experiential learning. Her wide range of business experience is applied in designing, facilitating, and evaluating programs in a variety of human resource development areas. She is the author of activity-oriented books and games, as well as the editor and contributor to the highly acclaimed "What Smart Trainers Know" book. Lorraine received her M.S. degree in Human Resource Development from Towson University in Maryland, where she taught as a graduate-level adjunct faculty member from 1997 until 2005. She currently lives in central Florida and enjoys traveling with her husband, Leon.