50 Digital Team-Building Games (John Wiley & Sons Inc)

Tech-based games to liven up meetings, break the ice, and improve communication and productivity§50 Digital Team-Building Games offers fun, energizing meeting openers, team activities, and group adventures for business meetings and teams. Using Twitter, GPS, Facebook, smartphones, and other technology, the games can be played in person or virtually and range from five-minute icebreakers to epic four-hour GPS-based adventures. Managers, facilitators, and speakers can easily lead these simple, engaging activities to help teams and groups get comfortable with technology, build trust, improve communication, and more.§No need to be a techie to lead these games-50 Digital Team-Building Games shows you:§How to engage engineers, hard-to-reach technical teams, and Gen X/Y teammates with technologythey already enjoy using§How to create successful "virtual" team building that requires no travel and little to no additional expenses§How to help technophobes get comfortable with important technology widely used aby your customers§Successful technology-based team building can create buzz for your group, foster critically important team relationships, and keep your people talking about it for weeks afterward.§"In the real world, John Chen is called Big Kid because he understands the business value ofserious play. The team-building games in this book can build bridges, install shock absorbers, and unleash a tidal wave of ideas. Ignore it at your own drudgery." -TIM SANDERS, former CSO, Yahoo!, and author of Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends