50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises
- 1h 18m
- Peter R. Garber
- Human Resource Development Press
- 2008
Have fun presenting these activities and build your employees' communication skills in just minutes. Communication plays such a big part in our lives today. Yet sometimes we get busy and forget just how important communication is to our success, relationships and happiness. 50 Communication Activities, Icebreakers and Activities is a great way to: Increase participants' awareness of how they communicate; Help them to build expertise in a variety of essential skills and competencies; Prepare them to deal effectively with the many types of communication challenges they face every day. Each activity focuses on some facet of communication and includes a description, time guideline, purpose, resources, presentation, debrief, difficulty rating and variations to make implementation easy. Each individual activity takes only minutes to complete. Together this collection contains a wealth of insight, tips and guidance to prepare employees to become confident communicators who enjoy stronger relationships and greater success and satisfaction on the job.
In this Book
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Communications is an Art
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Communicating Time
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Communications is the Key
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I Know You Believe You Understand
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Communications Model
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Listening Dilemma
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Interactive Listening Tips
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Listening Bad Habits
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Listening Questionnaire
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Seven Levels of Listening
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Silent Messages
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The Three Levels of Communications
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Nonverbal Listening Test
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The Laws of Remembering
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The Laws of Forgetting
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Meaning of Words
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Communications Circles
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Attention Spans
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Meaning of Listening
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Vanity Name Tent Cards
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Repeating Introductions
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Circle, Square, Triangle, or Z
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Introducing Each Other
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Fantasy Career
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Name That Participant
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Story of Your Name
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Nickname Game
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Introduction Bingo
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Card Match
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Reading Test
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The Longest Line
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Color Block
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Following Directions
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Train Story
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Count the Ss
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Communications Shutdowns
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Complete the Statement
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Quick Answers
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Voice Inflection Exercise
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The Wedding Story
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Who done it?
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Picture This
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Creative Fairy Tale
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Rumors
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The Shoe Store
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Two Moose Were Sitting on a Log
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Communications Styles
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“Oh”
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Word Games
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Trading Cards
