201 Icebreakers PB

by Edie West

Book Overview

Designed specifically for trainers, speakers and group facilitators, this book features activities - games, quizzes, energizers and brain-teasers - to break the ice at the beginning of any meeting, or to recharge participants on the brink of boredom. The activities require little or no preparation and most can be completed in less than five minutes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070696004
• ISBN13: 9780070696006
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.4" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Some good ideas, but a little too much prep required for many

This book had several good, usable activities. Like all books of this type, you just have to weed through a few to get to one that will work for your particular group. I really like the grid at the beginning of the book that matches activities to intended purposes. The only complaint I had was that many of the activities required quite a bit of prep work up front--particularly in the form of photocopying handouts. By the way, if you don't want to pay the hefty price tag, get "Quick Meeting Openers for Busy Managers." It's also pretty good (and no photocopying prep work!). Both of these books are 100 times better than "the big book of icebreakers"! That one had very few worthwhile activities.

Many great ideas

I had an offsite meeting and needed to prepare a few team exercises quickly. I found the ABC game to work great. I thought this would be easy and I would have to run the alphabet a few times to declare a winner. Much to my surprise I only got 3/4 of the way through and it really showed who was listening during the meeting.

Excellent!

I work in a school and this book has already helped me plan several fun activities for teachers, directors, and students. I highly recommend it!

Well written and has good variety.

While many of the activities might suit a business, I was able to find quite a few for small groups in our church. The instructions are thorough and handouts are well done. My only suggestion for the publisher would be to make the book so the pages could be torn out and put in a three ring binder.

Great for Residence Life staff

There are few books on icebreakers/teambuilders that I've found to be useful with college students ( I work in Student Affairs). This book, however, offered many activities that were useful not only for just 'breaking the ice' but also for applying them to the many educational workshops we do in this field. There was also a very helpful section called "Icebreakers for the Non-Icebreaker types" that was both interesting and practical. Because I work with such a diverse range of students, I struggle to find icebreakers that are not geared solely to the extroverted-types. This collection gives a number of activities that are beneficial to teambuilding while respecting the different learning/interaction styles we see in our students. Out of the 201 offered in the book, I have found at least 180 of them that I will use as integral parts of the next staff training. This book also offers activities for groups ranging from 8 participants (good for small staffs) to 400 participants (good for all-hall activities)!