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Serious Fun – Adding buzz to meetings, training and communications
Mark Barnes
Serious Fun provides a kit bag of practical ideas, games and activities — which actually work! It is a collection of 'ready to go' interventions, providing a huge number of opportunities to engage and energise — transforming what might otherwise be an ordinary event into an enjoyable, memorable and worthwhile experience.
With a thorough introduction and an easy to use matrix index, Serious Fun offers a concise summary of each activity, followed by a more detailed description of objectives, procedure and timings. With a focus on practicality and flexibility being a pre-requisite, the need for equipment and pre-prepared materials has been kept to a minimum.
Serious Fun can be used by managers, trainers, coaches, teachers and peer groups to add 'buzz' to shift meetings, team briefs, communications sessions, training or coaching interventions.
Many of the activities can also be used as a catalyst for original thought and are supplemented with 'additional variations' on a theme — demonstrating how an initial idea can be taken and grown, for use with a different group, to achieve different objectives, on a different day.
Activities in Serious Fun will:
- help you to get sessions started, providing fantastic ice breakers that energise, motivate and provide fun
- enable you to increase participant buy-in, enhance creativity and help people to feel empowered
- provide focus for sales, marketing, customer service and other business issues, such as trust, teamwork and communications
Adding some 'buzz' with Serious Fun will provide 'magic' and originality to your events!
Serious Fun – Adding buzz to meetings, training and communications
by Mark Barnes is published by Management Books 2000 Ltd and is available at all reputable high street and online book shops from July 2007 priced at £18.99.
(ISBN 978-185252-537-8 ).