Games That Teach Teams

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21 Activities to Super-Charge Your Group!

By George Takacs and Steve Sugar

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Games That Teach Teams by George Takacs and Steve Sugar offers over 20 competitive games and interactive exercises designed to enhance team learning and collaboration. The book provides comprehensive facilitator notes, enabling trainers to tailor these activities to address specific team challenges within their organisations. It includes a helpful matrix to select the right games for various team issues and offers sample exercises using game "frames" to inspire custom game creation. Fully reproducible materials streamline training efforts while encouraging open, non-threatening discussions on serious team topics.
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This book is ideal for team leaders, trainers, HR professionals, and anyone involved in organisational development who seeks practical, engaging tools to improve team dynamics and learning.

Building on his first book, Games That Teach, Steve Sugar, along with George Takacs, tackles teams and team learning through the use of more than 20 competitive games and interactive learning exercises.

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Building on his first book, Games That Teach, Steve Sugar, along with George Takacs, tackles teams and team learning through the use of more than 20 competitive games and interactive learning exercises. Using the comprehensive facilitator notes, you'll be able to customise these innovative games to suit the training needs of the teams in your organisation.

Games That Teach Teams:

Gives your teams the opportunity to discuss serious team topics in a non-threatening setting.
Includes a matrix indicating which games are most appropriate for specific team issues.
Contains sample exercises using game "frames" that allow you to create your own games.
Is completely reproducible, saving you time and money!

Games That Teach Teams is packed with activities that can help your team increase its ability to learn from its successes and failures and its ability to work together." – Rick Mauer, consultant; author of Beyond the Walls of Resistance

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787948351

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: Pfeiffer

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 206.0mm

Height: 277.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 240

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Company Culture & Human Resources George Takacs Non-Fiction Steve Sugar

About the Author

STEVE SUGAR is a writer and teacher of performance games. He is the author of five performance measurement game systems that are actively used in the U.S. and over 20 countries. His games focus on his teaching philosophy of "fun with a purpose" — encouraging adult learners to demonstrate newly learned knowledge and skills in individual and team formats. He wrote the Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer book Games That Teach (1998). Steve has taught experiential learning in the graduate curricula at the Johns Hopkins University and the New York Institute of Technology. He is on the faculty of the University of Maryland; a member of the Human Resources faculty, Johns Hopkins University; the Leadership Development Program, Federal Center; and the Education Development faculty, USDA Graduate School. He lives in Elliot City, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore.

GEORGE TAKACS is a trainer and consultant specializing in team building, and a teacher and course developer at the University of Maryland (UMUC) and Georgetown. George is currently creating a course in Organizational Development that will be available over the web. He lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. He may be reached at george@takacsonline.com.