The Big Book of Meeting Games: 75 Quick, Fun Activities for Leading Creative, Energetic, Productive Meetings by Marlene Caroselli, paperback, 250 pages

Synopsis:

This is a paperback original games and activities book to help keep meetings energized and participants involved. The Big Book of Meeting Games offers meeting leaders 75 short, challenging, and fun activities to accomplish specific meeting objectives. From force-field analysis to fishbone diagrams, it transforms often intimidating facilitation and decision-making tools into quick, engaging activities that can be used successfully in virtually any business context. Meeting participants will become more involved, more creative, and more productive through games and exercises that allow them to: break the ice with unfamiliar employees; engage and energize for more powerful, valuable input; and effectively solve problems and voice their solutions.

From the Back Cover:

75 Activities to Keep Meeting Participants Awake, Involved, and Eager to Provide Input and Solutions

This guide for meeting leaders turns often-intimidating facilitation and decision-making tools into games that are lively, yet appropriate for any business setting. Meeting participants will stay energized and involved through games designed to:

-Define the key issues of a meeting

-Help participants break the ice

-Convert complainers into contributors

-Find opportunities in problems

-Achieve consensus among opposing viewpoints

-Disarm confrontational participants

-Expedite decision making

-Begin and end meetings on time

Any number of books will provide you with research and viewpoints on the long-term costs of dull, uninspired meetings. The Big Book of Meeting Games features hands-on, proactive tools to help meeting leaders and facilitators avoid dull, uninspired meetings and to keep every participant involved, inspired, and eager to contribute instead.

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