This book is prepared to help participants and learners deal effectively with the many types of communications challenges they face every day. Each activity is designed to help participants better understand some facet of communications and gain expertise in that communications skill or competency.
Contents:
Part I. Communications Principles
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Communications Is an Art
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Communicating Time
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Communications Is the Key
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I Know You Believe You Understand
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Communications Model
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Listening Dilemma
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Interactive Listening Tips
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Listening Bad Habits
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Listening Questionnaire
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Seven Levels of Listening
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Silent Messages
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The Three Levels of Communications
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Nonverbal Listening Test
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Laws of Remembering
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Laws of Forgetting
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Meaning of Words
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Communications Circles
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Attention Spans
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Meaning of Listening
Part II. Communications Icebreakers
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Vanity Name Cards
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Repeating Introductions
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Circle, Square, Triangle, or Z
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Introducing Each Other
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Fantasy Career
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Name that Participant
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Story of Your Name
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Nickname Game
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Introduction Bingo
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Card Match
Part III. Communications Exercises
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Reading Test
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The Longest Line
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Color Block
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Following Directions
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Train Story
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Count the Ss
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Communications Shutdowns
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Repeat the Question
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Quick Answers
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Rephrasing Exercise
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Wedding Story
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Who Done It?
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Picture Puzzle
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Creative Fairy Tale
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Rumors
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The Shoe Store
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Two Moose Sitting on a Log
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Communications Styles
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“Oh”
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Word Games
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Trading Cards
Reproduced from 50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises, by Peter R. Garber. Amherst, MA, HRD Press, 2008.
