How to Use This Resource.
Introduction.
Section I. Communication and Values.
1. One-Way, Two-Way: A Communications Experiment.
2. Shoe Store: Group Problem Solving.
3. Behavior Description Trios: Reading Body Language.
4. Not-Listening: A Paired Role Play.
5. Rumor Clinic: A Communications Experiment.
6. Helping Relationships: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication.
7. Babel: Interpersonal Communication.
8. I’m All Ears: Enhancing Awareness of Effective Listening.
9. All Iowans Are Naïve: Breaking Cultural Stereotypes.
10. Meanings Are in People: Perception Checking.
11. In Other Words: Building Communication Skills.
12. Dominoes: A Communication Experiment.
13. Listening Trios: Building Communications Skills.
14. Active Listening: A Communication-Skills Practice.
15. Taking Responsibility: Practice in Communicating Assumptions.
16. Prisoner’s Dilemma: An Intergroup Competition.
17. Polarization: A Demonstration.
18. Submission/Aggression/Assertion: Nonverbal Components.
19. Praise: Giving and Receiving Positive Feedback.
20. Discrimination: Simulation Activities.
21. Sex-Role Attitudes: Personal Feedback.
22. Think-Feel: A Verbal Progression.
23. Organizational TA: Interpersonal Communication.
24. Adjectives: Feedback.
25. Partners Renewal: A Program for Developing Ongoing Relationships.
26. Escalation: An Assertion Activity.
27. Coins: Symbolic Feedback.
28. Sexual Values in Organizations: An OD Role Play.
29. Risk Taking: A Perception Check for Partners.
Section II. Leadership and Decision Making.
30. T-P Leadership Questionnaire: An Assessment of Style.
31. Brainstorming: A Problem-Solving Activity.
32. Boss Wanted: Identifying Leadership Characteristics.
33. Motivation: A Supervisory-Skill Activity.
34. Absentee: A Management Role Play.
35. Fork-Labyrinth: Leadership Practice.
36. Hampshire In-Basket: A Management Activity.
37. Auction: An Intergroup Competition.
38. Win as Much as You Can: An Intergroup Competition.
39. Staff Meeting: A Leadership Role Play.
40. When to Delegate: A Manager’s Dilemma.
41. Sunglow: An Appraisal Role Play.
42. Choose Me: Developing Power Within a Group.
43. Darts: Competition and Motivation.
44. Pins and Straws: Leadership Styles.
45. Management Skills: Assessing Personal Performance.
46. Coloring Book: An Organization Experiment.
47. The Manager’s Guidebook: Understanding Motivation.
48. Maze: One-Way and Two-Way Communication.
49. Sherlock: An Inference Activity.
50. Resistance: A Role Play.
51. Force-Field Analysis: Individual Problem Solving.
52. Interviewing: Gathering Pertinent Information.
53. Values and Decisions: Checking for Congruence.
54. Wahoo City: A Role Alternation.
55. AIRSOPAC: Choosing a CEO.
Section III. Personal Growth.
56. T’ai Chi Chuan: An Introduction to Movement Awareness.
57. The Human Bank Account: Practicing Self-Affirmation.
58. The People of Trion: Exploring Organizational Values.
59. The Gold Watch: Balancing Personal and Professional Values.
60. Prejudice: An Awareness-Expansion Activity.
61. Alpha II: Clarifying Sexual Values.
62. Sexual Values: Relationship Clarification.
63. Lifeline: A Value-Clarification Activity.
64. Feelings and Defenses: A Spontaneous Lecture.
65. Bread Making: An Integrating Experience.
66. Projections: Interpersonal Awareness Expansion.
67. Inquiries: Observing and Building Hypotheses.
68. Growth Cards: Experimenting with New Behaviors.
69. Personality Traits: Self-Discovery and Disclosure.
70. The “T” Test: An Experiential Lecture on Traits.
71. Sexism in Advertisements: Exploring Stereotypes.
72. Closure: Variations on a Theme.
73. Introspection: Personal Evaluation and Feedback.
74. Wants Bombardment: A Psychosynthesis Activity.
75. Physical Characteristics: Paired Perception Checking.
76. Verbal Activities Within Groups: A Potpourri.
77. The Ego-Radius Model: Evaluating and Planning Life Situations.
78. Group Exploration: A Guided Image.
79. Awareness Expansion: A Potpourri.
80. Graphics: Self-Disclosure Activities.
81. Partners Encounter: A Program for Developing Relationships.
82. Personal Journal: A Self-Evaluation.
83. Guided Imagery: Suggestions for Individuals and Groups.
84. Nonverbal Communication: A Collection of Activities.
85. Nonverbal Communication: A Collection.
86. Nonverbal Communication: Another Collection.
87. Lemons: A Sensory-Awareness Activity.
88. Helping Pairs: A Collection.
89. Stretching: Identifying and Taking Risks.
90. Life Planning: A Programmed Approach.
91. The In-Group: Dynamics of Exclusion.
92. Microlab: A Training Demonstration.
93. Giving and Receiving Feedback: Contracting for New Behavior.
Section IV. Classroom and Consulting Techniques.
94. Listening and Inferring: A Getting-Acquainted Activity.
95. Best Friend: A Getting-Acquainted Activity.
96. Tea Party: An Icebreaker.
97. Name Tags: An Icebreaker.
98. Choose an Object: A Getting-Acquainted Activity.
99. Personal Identity: An Icebreaker.
100. Learning Exchange: A Getting-Acquainted Activity.
101. Who Am I? A Getting-Acquainted Activity.
102. “Who Am I?” Variations: A Getting-Acquainted Activity.
103. Energizers: Group Starters.
104. Group Conversation: Discussion Starters.
105. Getting Acquainted: A Potpourri.
106. Two-Four-Eight: Building Teams.
107. Empty Chair: An Extended Group Design.
108. Jigsaw: Forming Groups.
109. Miniversity: Sharing Participants’ Ideas.
110. Resistance to Learning: Developing New Skills.
111. Aloha: A Feedback Activity.
112. First Names, First Impressions: A Feedback Activity.
113. Training Philosophies: A Personal Assessment.
114. Assumptions About Human Relations Training: An Opinionnaire.
115. Client Concerns: Developing Appropriate Trainer Responses.
116. HELPCO: An OD Role Play.
117. Process Intervention: A Facilitator Practice Session.
118. Group Composition: A Selection Activity.
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