More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 New Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

If you're like most managers, you probably don't have the luxury of running complicated, time-consuming team-building activities--yet you realize how important it is to get your people working together effectively. Building on the bestselling original, More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers gives you 50 all-new exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, and which require no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. The book presents each activity in just a few short pages with all the relevant information including a list of materials needed, the purpose of the exercise, and handy tips for success, all highlighted for easy reference. This practical, results-oriented book contains fun and effective activities for:

- building new teams and helping teams with new members - finding creative ways to work together and solve problems - increasing and improving communication - keeping competition healthy and productive within the team - dealing with change and its effects: anger, fear, frustration - and more.

Packed with proven ideas for getting the most from your team--and including special guidance for "virtual teams," whose members are in different locations but must work as a unit--this book is the answer for anyone who wants to make a team stronger...and not waste any time doing it.

Praise for Brian Cole Miller's Previous Books

Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers

..".an excellent primer on how to conduct and debrief his well-designed activities."

--Training Media Review

"I recommend Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers because the activities are fun, challenging, and easily implemented."

--The Facilitator

Keeping Employees Accountable for Results

"Keeping Employees Accountable for Results is an excellent tool for doing just that."

--Accounting Today

Brian Cole Miller is the principal of Working Solutions, Inc., a management training and consulting firm whose clients include DuPont, Nationwide Insurance, and VIS. He is the author of Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers and Keeping Employees Accountable for Results. He lives in Dublin, Ohio.