Product Description

Get meetings off to a great start! Icebreakers are a great way to warm up to large groups, encourage shy individuals to participate more fully, add color to boring staff meetings, and bring together people who are complete strangers. In fact, icebreakers are effective in just about any group situation. The trick is in knowing which ones are best for a given situation. That's where this book can help. It contains 65 proven and effective icebreakers that participants will enjoy and respond to, while at the same time matching each activity to the appropriate occassion.You can discover stimulating ways to: generate interest in a presentation or training topic; inject enthusiasm into sales meetings; bring cohesiveness and a shared sense of purpose to large groups; break down barriers between strangers; re-energize groups on the brink of boredom; and stimulate creative team thinking. No matter what the challenge or how tough the audience, this book will enable you to create the atmosphere you need to get the job done!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #313036 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 227 pages

From the Back Cover
Get meetings off to a great start! Icebreakers are a great way to warm up to large groups, encourage shy individuals to participate more fully, add color to boring staff meetings, and bring together people who are complete strangers. In fact, icebreakers are effective in just about any group situation. The trick is in knowing which ones are best for a given situation. That's where this book can help. It contains 65 proven and effective icebreakers that participants will enjoy and respond to, while at the same time matching each activity to the appropriate occassion. Discover stimulating ways to: generate interest in a presentation or training topic; inject enthusiasm into sales meetings; bring cohesiveness and a shared sense of purpose to large groups; break down barriers between strangers; re-energize groups on the brink of boredom; stimulate creative team thinking. No matter what the challenge or how tough the audience, this book will enable you to create the atmosphere you need to get the job done!

About the Author
Edie West (Fairfax Station, VA) is a trainer and speaker. She also creates and markets products for speakers, teachers, facilitators, and trainers that engage the audience in listening and learning. Edie is the author of 201 Icebreakers.

Customer Reviews

Uninspiring
As a trainer, I found the exercises in this book uninspiring, dull and old-fashioned. Exercises labeled as 'pure fun' were anything but. The author has simply re-packaged ice breakers she has used for the past thirty years in the hopes that high-energy global participants wouldn't notice that they were originally designed for crusty American corporates.