The Pfeiffer Handbook of Structured Experiences: Learning Activities for Intact Teams and Workgroups

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Pub. Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher(s): Pfeiffer & Co
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Summary

Learning Activities for Intact Teams and Workgroups includes more than one hundred learning designs that target the growth and development of individuals who work in teams or within a collaborative for a team or an organization. The experiences are organized according to the level of participant involvement, beginning with relatively low-risk activities and progressing to highly involving exercises. The book is further organized into three topical categories: Communication and Trust; Roles and Processes; and Leadership and Decision Making. A must-have resource for corporate trainers and consultants, Learning Activities for Intact Teams and Workgroups Includes more than 100 ready-to-use training designs with clearly-stated outcomes. Offers robust and proven instructional-design principles to help create structured experiences. Contains activities especially suited for learners who work on the same team or for the same organization.

Author Biography

Jack Gordon served for fifteen years as chief editor of Training Magazine, North America’s leading monthly covering workplace training and development. His articles and columns on training subjects have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, San Diego Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Resource
Introduction
Communication and Trust
The Gift of Happiness: Experiencing Positive Feedback
Synonyms: Sharing Perceptions Between Groups
News Bulletin: Focusing the Group
People on the Job: Expressing Opinions
Team Effectiveness: A Team-Building Activity
Yearbook: Positive Feedback
Sculpturing: An Expression of Feelings
Pass It On: Simulating Organizational Communication
The Portrait Game: Individual Feedback
Mixed Messages: A Communication Experiment
Nominations: Analyzing Trust Within a Team
The Decent but Pesky Coworker: Developing Contracting Skills
Stones, Bands, and Circle: Sociogram Activities
Peer Perceptions: A Feedback Experience
Lists: A Collection of Consensus Activities
Developing Trust: A Leadership Skill
Johari Window: An Experience in Self-Disclosure and Feedback
Testing: Intergroup Competition
Growth Group Values: A Clarification Activity
Feedback: Increasing Self-Perceptions
I Am, Don''t You Think? Zodiac Feedback
Dialogue: A Program for Developing Work Relationships
Messages: Feedback and Cohesiveness
Group Sell: Advertising Group Values
Team Mirror: A Feedback Experience
The Value Profile: Legitimizing Intergroup Differences
Intergroup Meeting: An Image Exchange
Twenty-Five Questions: Assessing Team Development
Leveling: Giving and Receiving Adverse Feedback
Intimacy Program: Developing Personal Relationships
Dependency-Intimacy: A Feedback Experience
Affirmation of Trust: A Feedback Activity
Negotiating Differences: Avoiding Polarization
Power and Affection Exchange: Sharing Feelings
Territory: Intergroup Negotiation
Person Perception: Feedback
Team Sociogram: Communication Within a Team
Roles and Processes
Riddles: Intergroup Competition
Group-on-Group: A Feedback Experience
Headbands: Group Role Expectations
Wooden Blocks: A Competition Exercise
Group Tasks: A Collection of Activities
Sales Puzzle: Information Sharing
Team Identity: A Developmental Planning Session
Circle in the Square: A Cooperation/Competition Activity
Cross-Group Negotiation and Cooperation: Studying Group Dynamics
Committee Meeting: Demonstrating Hidden Agendas
Self-Interaction Task: Process Observation Guides
Slingshots: Studying Group Dynamics
Sticky Wickets: Exploring Group Stress
Line-Up and Power Inversion: An Experiment
Role Nominations: A Feedback Experience
Ajax Appliance Corporation: Exploring Conflict-Management Styles
Team Development: A TORI Model
Towers: An Intergroup Competition
Team Self-Evaluations: A Collection of Instruments
Organization Structures: Communication Patterns
Team Planning: Effects of Differential Information
System Problems: A Diagnostic Activity
Structures: Intergroup Competition
Graphic Analysis: Developing a Team
Kerner Report: A Consensus-Seeking Task
Kaleidoscope: Team Building Through Role Expansion
Tinkertoy Bridge: Intergroup Competition
The Company Task Force: Dealing with Disruptive Behavior
Lego Bridge: Intergroup Competition
Work-Needs Assessment: Achievement, Affiliation, and Power
Process Observation: A Guide
Team Building: A Feedback Experience
Risk Game: Competition and Team Building
Pine County: Information Sharing
Marbles: A Community Experiment
Agenda Setting: A Team-Building Starter
Cups: A Power Experience
Conflict Resolution: A Collection of Tasks
Status-Interaction Study: A Multiple Role Play
Roles Impact Feelings: A Role Play
Matrix: Balancing Organizational Needs
Dimensions of Trust: A Symbolic Expression
Toothpicks: An Analysis of Helping Behaviors
Spy: An Intergroup Activity
Role Clarification: A Team-Building Activity
Expressing Anger: A Self-Disclosure Activity
Leadership and Decision Making
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