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Interpersonal Influence Inventory - Do the people in your organization know how they "come across" to others? Help them to become more effective communicators, and show them how to use their influence wisely with the Interpersonal Influence Inventory 4th Edition. For over 20 years, this popular learning instrument has helped thousands of professionals assess their own influence styles and work toward communicating more effectively.

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Supervisory Skills Questionnaire - The best employees don’t always make the best supervisors. At least, not without the proper training. New supervisors can be overwhelmed by the often-conflicting demands of customers, management, and their coworkers-turned-employees. The Supervisory Skills Questionnaire is a comprehensive and practical assessment tool that helps supervisors to focus on the 5 most critical skills for effective supervision: Guiding the Work, Organizing the Work, Developing Your Staff, Managing Performance, and Managing Relations.

Deir el-Medina - An Exploration of Team Roles - Groups often fail to find the solution to solvable problems because team members do not recognize the importance of their role, or they overlook the information that other members possess. Deir el-Medina is an engaging game designed to identify the various roles each team member plays during work processes and demonstrate how each role contributes to the group’s ability to accomplish goals, solve problems, and achieve success.

Create a Company - Teambuilding exercise for teaching the power of collaboration & innovation. A long time favorite with our trainers. Simply a blast!

Power of Recognition - A surprisingly powerful exercise for emphasizing the need for recognition. A great add-on for Motivation 101 training. Also good for ending the session.

Junkyard Golf - It's hard to imagine having fun, developing the team, and serving the environment all at the same time. Well, in this game, you can!

The Answer is in the Room - A quick exercise that can be used as an icebreaker, energizer, or to simply demonstrate the power of people working together. Collaborative problem solving.

Essence of Team - A highly motivational exercise that unlocks the secrets of great teams.

Training Games Software - Icebreakers, Quiz Shows, Board Games, and more projected on-screen. Download now anywhere in the world.

Team Exercises, Games and Simulations

Team Adventure Series - A series of 7 survival training simulations for teams from beginner to advanced such as the popular Swamped!, Black Bear, Marooned and more.

The Polygon Puzzle™ emphasizes the need for openly sharing information in a difficult problem solving situation.

Mars Surface Rover" Game (Team Edition) - A highly creative simulation that emphasizes interdependence and communication.

Games Teams Play™: In a board game context, teams address seldom discussed issues. Three versions for team members, leaders, and senior managers.

Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine- A half-day tabletop exercise that stresses themes of interdepartmental collaboration, teamwork, communications and leadership. Used globally since 1993.

Communication Derailed - An exercise that demonstrates poor communication, then teaches the skills to improve it.

Do Your Best - Focuses the team on mission, vision, and goal setting through the use of 19 interactive activities.

Tall Ships: A Game for Building Effective Teams. Players must demonstrate that they can successfully perform the “Seven C’s” upon which The Seven Seas Company is founded.

Jungle Escape - To survive, each group must build an escape helicopter with spare parts, 3 diagrams, and limited access to a completed model.

Just My Type: The Personality Game^TM - This game is an excellent way to venture into the subject of personality. Can be used as a stand-alone activity,as a supplement to the Personal Style Inventory above, or as an icebreaker for other related trainings or meetings.

LIBERATION™is a dynamic new innovation in the world of team development. It is a computer-based simulation that allows a team to interact and negotiate with fictitious activists for the release of hostages.

Common Currency - Is cooperative competition possible? Yes. Drive competitive energy while maintaining a cooperative culture with this intriquing exercise.

Deir el-Medina - is designed to identify the various roles each team member plays during work processes and demonstrates how each role contributes to the group's ability to accomplish goals, solve problems, and achieve success.

Physical Teambuilding

TeamTimbers - Fifteen execellent activities in one economical package.

Toobeez^TM - Giant Construction Elements for active teambuilding. This just-developed product will be a sensation in teambuilding circles for highly active and challenging team development.

Team Profiles and Assessments

What's My Style - A quick learning instrument used to identify behavioral style.

What's My Team Member Style? - The perfect instrument for quickly assessing team member styles to better understand individual strengths, differences, and contributions to the team.

What's My Leadership Style - Identify preferred leadership style, understand the style's strengths and weaknesses, and learn how to adjust style in different situations.

What's My Communication Style - A quick learning instrument that identifies preferences in verbal and non-verbal communication.

What's My Time Style - Helps your team members understand how each of them use time, based on their natural tendencies.

Styleplay: 12 Group Card Games - Learn about personal style by playing card games? Yes! These cards are designed using the same theory base as more sophisticated instruments, and produce results that help participants learn about style in a non-threatening way.

Personal Style Inventory^TM - Help team members understand their personalities and their affects on team functioning. This is a wonderful program that has been used for years with excellent results. It's no wonder it's a best seller!

Exploring Personal Styles^TM - What do you do after the personality training? It's time for practical follow up and elaboration. This supplement has activities for 1-, 2-, 3-, and 5-hour workshops.

Learning to Listen - Real communication, understanding, and learning begin with listening. This beautifully-revised program and assessment help individuals become more effective listeners.

Interpersonal Influence Inventory - This newly-updated assessment measures the behaviors that individuals use when they attempt to influence others, a skill that is growing with the trend toward more collaborative work systems.

Neurolinguistic Communication Profile - Helps participants identify one of 3 sensory channels used in communicating.

 

Team Effectiveness Profile - 4th Edition - Tool to diagnose and work through obstacles to effective teamwork.

Effective Team Member Profile - A powerful tool to assess and improve team member effectiveness.

Team-Work & Team-Roles - Help team members to understand their natural tendencies when doing a task or solving a problem, then be able to modify their style for the effectiveness of the team. Great for new teams, task teams, problem solving, committees, and more.

Power & Possibilities:
A Team Assessment: Team members determine their own training needs.

Empowerment Profile^TM is a unique program for assessing the level of empowerment within an organization, department, or team, then developing a strategy for improving it.

*** Change Series ***

Mastering the Change Curve- A 1-2 hour program to help individuals, teams, and organizations understand, accept, and move through the experience of change.

Change Reaction - This assessment and workshop helps one to identify his or her typical response to organizational change. A great first step in helping people move forward during times of change.

Leading Change at Every Level - A mini-workshop with assessment to surface behaviors that are counterproductive to change and learn ways to reverse them.

Seeds of Innovation - The key to survival in the 21st Century is innovation. Every prominent business magazine today makes this point. But does your organization embrace and promote innovation? This assessment measures this, then offers excellent advice on how to become an innovative organization.

Conflict Strategies Inventory - Finally, a 1-hour assessment and training session to help team members identify and manage their natural tendencies during conflict.

Trust: The Ultimate Test - Revised -This unique tool moves us comfortably into the topic of trust, either one-on-one or in teams.

Learning Styles Questionnaire - Identify one's preference for one of 4 learning styles: Activitist, Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist.

Complete Team Training Programs

Training Program for Teams at Work - A complete, yet flexible, training program for teams that anyone can deliver. A trainer's dream!

Building the Communication Bridge - Building the Communication Bridge is a complete one day (or two half days) training program to enhance your team members' ability to carry on effective face-to-face conversations.

Team Leadership

What's My Coaching Style?- Improve your ability to coach others when you understand your natural approach to doing so. This program helps coaches to both understand, then adapt their coaching style as needed.

Get Fit for Coaching- This program assesses and teaches the skills of coaching, so that leader feedback is meaningful and productive.

Coaching Skills Inventory - Profile your coaching skills and learn a 7-step model for conducting effective coaching meetings.

Trainer / Facilitator Support Materials

Facilitator's Tool Kit - A must for anyone facilitating teams. Includes tools for helping teams be their best.

TeamBuilders: 10 Adventures in Working Together - 10 fantasy exercises that address decision making, problem solving, teamwork, communication, and leadership.

Meeting Repair Kit - Problems with your meetings? ...or would you just like to make them better? This program gives you lots of new tools to make any meeting better.

Energizers - Icebreakers, get-acquainted exercises, and energizers for trainers and presenters.

40 Consensus Decision Making Activities - This collection of 40 practice activities will finally help teams understand true consensus.

Facilitating Win/Win™: Tools and Techniques to help teams reach agreement. The facilitator's friend.

The POSITUDE™ Challenge Application Cards: Decks of Cards with situations such as Customer Service, Sales, Management & Supervisory Time Management for teams to discuss and resolve.

Power Up for Team Results: Team Empowerment Discussion Series. The first tool of its kind to help grow empowered teams faster.

Force Field Problem Solving Model - This time-tested process provides teams with a reliable and creative framework for solving complex problems.

50 Communication Skills Activities - This collection of 50 unique activities will add practical application to any communication training.

25 Problem Solving & Decision Making Activities - Just as physical fitness requires exercise, problem solving and decision making "fitness" results from practice. These activities will hone these much-needed skills.

InterAct -Card Games for Effective Team Meeting Behavior - a collection of four interactive games you can use during actual meetings.

Square Wheels Facilitation Guides: If you lead discussions, do training, or facilitate problem solving, then these guides will help.

Team Motivation: How to Energize Any Team - Finally, a collection of the best in team motivation ideas.

TeamBook- 27 exercises for enhancing work groups.

Team Training Videos/DVD

Customer Service

Knock Your Socks Off Customer Service

Internal Customer Service Assessment - Providing good internal customer service is just as important as external, but with different standards. This program helps team members understand and apply better service internally.