Team Workout: A Trainer's Sourcebook of 50 Team-Building Games and Activities

Teams have evolved into an important structure in business today--and are now needed more than ever.

An insightful collection of activities, Team Workout provides facilitators, trainers, leaders, and managers with a wide variety of tools to increase team effectiveness and upgrade skills and knowledge within today's challenging organizational environment. The book focuses on such current team issues as virtual teams, trust-building, customer satisfaction, recognition, and respect. Trainers will learn the key ideas that underlie all of the activities in this manual, including:

* Each team has a common purpose, mission, or goal
* Members are interdependent; they need each other to achieve their purpose
* Agreement that working together effectively will help to reach their goal.

This collection will help team leaders, team-building specialists, trainers, and others interested in creating collaborative, harmonious and effective work teams.

"Glenn Parker (Skillman, NJ) is an author and consultant. He works with organizations to create and sustain high-performing teams, effective team players, and team-based systems.

Richard Kropp (Scituate, MA) has more than 20 years of experience as an internal HRD consultant. He currently teaches at Suffolk University in Boston."