TY - BOOK AU - Miller, Brian Cole. TI - Quick team-building activities for busy managers: 50 exercises that get results in just 15 minutes SN - 9780814472019 U1 - 658.4/02MIL PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - AMACOM KW - Teams in the workplace -Training of N1 - Includes index N2 - Every group can benefit from team-building exercises. But sometimes it's not practical to embark on a full-scale training initiative. Now, supervisors, managers, and team leaders have 50 team-building activities to choose from, all of which can be implemented with no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Readers will find engaging exercises for: building new teams and helping teams with new members; dealing with change and its effects: anger, fear, frustration, and more; recognizing individual efforts and team accomplishments; finding creative ways to work together and solve problems; increasing and improving communication; leveraging diversity and individual differences to meet team goals; and, keeping competition healthy and productive within the team. Instructions and tips for follow-up and variations are included for each activity, and an additional chapter provides valuable advice for working through unexpected difficulties in team-building ER -