Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity

by Robert Epstein

Games to Jumpstart workplace creativity. Dr. Robert Epstein's Creativity Games for Trainers arms you with 30 innovative, entertaining games guaranteed to enhance creativity in any organizational... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070213631
• ISBN13: 9780070213630
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

I've used Epstein's book together with Michalko's "Thinkertoys," in my creative thinking seminars with great success. You can't fail with these two books.

A different approach

This book focuses on the stimuli (inputs/old ideas) and effective capaturing of responses (outputs/creative ideas) vs most other books about creativity focus on the thinking process, like mindmapping, six hats, thinking toys, etc. Thus, it directs to a total different path of how we build an environment to boost creativity. My analogy is no matter what thinking process you introduce, a group of housewives cannot invent a racket to reach the moon (don't get me wrong, I highly respect housewives for their contribution to families). It's the relevancy and variety of the inputs that matters.I guess the author is a behaviourist who see thinking process as black box, i.e. non-observable and non-measurable. Thus, he only concentrates on the observable and measurable stimuli and responses.I am a trainer for creativity for my company. I find this book very useful. The only complaint is that not all the games are up to my personal standard: able to demonstrate the theory AND able to energize the participants.All in all, I highly recommand this book. You will see creativity in a different angle.

Realy Improving

Creativity Games for Trainers was realy useful for me because it its change my life and i realy feel of the creativity on me. I approached my job with new inspiration after I started taking time-outs with myself. I highly recommend this book.