The encyclopedia of icebreakers
Subtitle: structured activities that warm-up, motivate, challenge, acquaint, and energize
By: Sue Forbess-Greene.
Publisher: Applied Skills Press; Brand: Pfeiffer; Pfeiffer
Published: 1983
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Format: 3-ring binder
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Games.; Amusements.; Social interaction.
Description: Lists introductory activities designed to make learning easier for the participants involved in workshops, courses, conferences, and skill-development training programs. Enables group leader to foster interaction, stimulate creative thinking, challenge basic assumptions, illustrate new concepts, and introduce specific material. Activities are appropriate for use in business, industry, education, health care, and other human service settings.
Table of contents: title: Trainer’s introduction -- Energizers and tension reducers. Barnyard -- Bunny hop -- Card relay -- Caterpillar race -- Creative contraptions -- Creative dough -- Extraterrestrial journey -- Finger collage -- Group art -- Ha -- Hot pepper -- How I relax -- Macaroni necklace -- Marionette -- Moody blues -- More motions -- Musical interpretation -- Newspaper shuffle -- Potpourri of exercises -- Prehistoric animals -- Printed foot race -- Statues -- Superman relay -- The creature -- Think fast -- Feedback and disclosure. Adjectives -- Alter ego -- Autobiographical sheets -- Baggy faces -- Behind your back -- Body expression -- Dimensions of trust -- Impressions -- In the oval office -- Know your neighbor -- Life map  -- Like/dislike -- Off your chest -- On the ledge -- Role throwaway -- Royal family -- Sculptor -- Stranded -- The look -- Thought to thought -- Trust me -- Warm fuzzies -- What I believe -- Who am I like? -- Whom do you trust? Games and brainteasers. Balloon football -- Basket -- Blown out of proportion -- Buzzing out! -- Cake walk -- Creative refrigerators -- Entrance exams -- Fancy sayings -- Grab your partner -- Hidden birds -- Hiding spot -- Hot-air specialist -- Jigsaw puzzle -- Mule train -- Object drop -- Observation -- Puzzlers -- Rhythm -- Scrambled cities -- Spell it out -- Telephone book relay -- Testing your logic -- The fifth sense -- Three-legged race -- You don’t say -- Getting acquainted. All tied up -- Chair mates -- Clap, clap, clap, snap -- Color, car, character -- Completed thought -- Crisscross handshake -- Duo interviews -- Fantasy island -- Finders -- Follow the leader -- Groupings -- Human sandwich -- Identification -- Know your states -- Life events -- Person poem -- Philosophy of work -- Picassos -- Press release -- Salt lips -- Slogans that fit -- Spelling bee -- Wanted posters -- What’s in a name? -- Word associations -- Openers and warm-ups. Band together -- Blackboard sentences -- Charades with art -- Debate -- First impressions -- Gossip -- Grin and bear it -- Hear! Hear! -- Hello -- I bequeath -- Expect -- Identifying touch -- Imagination -- Knots -- Laugh -- Number groups -- Patchwork fiction -- Problems and solutions -- Profiles -- Progressive poetry -- Proverbial shout -- Solemn and silent -- Uncle Fred’s suitcase -- Vegetable sing -- Who am I? -- Professional development topics. A supervisor’s dilemma -- Arrange the cartons -- Assessing performance -- Brainstorming -- Buyer’s guide -- Carrot or stick? -- Coping with stress -- Creative management -- Creative team building -- Effective employee -- Good supervisor/manager -- Individual goal setting -- Individual problem solving -- Intensive care -- Job disclosure -- Motivating the manufacturers -- Motivation grid -- Motivators -- Perfect environment -- Salesmanship -- Skits -- Taking a chance -- Three supervisory styles -- Time management -- Typical workday.