Games Trainers Play (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (ISBN 0070464081)

I like it!:
So many training guides merely compile the same old activities that have been circulating forever. I was glad to see some really unique activities in here (even though it first came out twenty years ago!). I also found the trainer's introduction pertinent and helpful. If you work in an international context, you'll be especially pleased. Many of the other game compilations have activities that are language (puns, play on words) or culture (trivia) based. This volume seems relatively free of such nonsense. It's not the sexiest book you'll pick up. The format and design are simple, even stark. Nevertheless, for sheer fun for your buck, you'll have a hard time beating it.

Games Trainers Play:
I was really looking forward to getting this book and was so disappointed when I got it. I don't see how anyone could rate it at 5 stars. It was dry and boring. There are better books out there than this one. I even met Ed Scannell last year in Austin. I'm just gled that he is not as boring as the book.

Great book:
If you conduct training sessions, this series of books is awesome. Lots of ideas that can be implemented in numerous ways. Buy the whole series.

Superb resource book:
I had this series of books before - loaned them out at work and never got them back (go figure!). Happy to have found them again here.

First things first - terminal performance objectives, audience analysis:
.... This book can be very helpful if you've done your homework about the performance needs and the audience first. IF YOU Identify what specific on the job performance needs exist for the audience; and whether and how to address those needs through a training session, and Identify the characteristics of the audience so you know what appeals to them in a training session, THEN Select games from this book if they are appropriate to the terminal (on the job) performance objectives and audience analysis. This book won't do that for you. Nor tell you how. Nor even tell you whether. pvitkus@wizdom.com