A leading expert on team building and
team dynamics, Arnold created Team Energizers: Fifty Practical
Team Activities. Using Arnold’s real world work as a laboratory,
Team Energizers (QPC Press, $19.95) includes practical and effective
activities she observed while working with real teams. By using
the activities in Team Energizers, team members can develop
an understanding and appreciation for myriad issues, such as
active listening, change, communication, conflict resolution,
creativity, decision-making, diversity, feedback, goal setting,
having fun together, planning, prioritization, problem solving,
process tools, team dynamics and team work. Team Energizers
includes fifty exercises, illustrations and tips on team building.
An easy to follow and practical guide, Team Energizers consists
of time-tested ideas for use with a variety of situations and
teams.
To coincide with the release of the book,
Arnold has compiled an exhaustive listing of team energizers,
resources and books searchable at www.qpcteam.com. By using
the search engine, team leaders, facilitators, consultants or
team members will have no problem finding the perfect team activity
to suit the situation. Team Energizers is part of The Extraordinary
Team Series, which includes E-mail Basics: Practical Tips to
Improve Team Communication and Team Basics: Practical Strategies
for Team Success.
According to Bob Pike, CSP, CPAE Speakers
Hall of Fame, Founder/Editor of The Creative Training Techniques
newsletter, Chairman/CEO, The Bob Pike Group, “Team Energizers
will take your team to another level. Its ideas and strategies…are
crafted from the most important kind of testing: actual use
with real people in the workplace. Read this book with a highlighter
and tape flags. Mark the ideas you can use with your teams,
and then use at least one today.”
An accomplished author and editor of several
professional articles and books, as well as a featured columnist
in The Daily Press, a Tribune Publishing newspaper, Kristin
J. Arnold is an expert in team development and process improvement
techniques. With years of team-building and facilitation experience,
Kristin specializes in coaching executives and their leadership,
management and employee teams, particularly in the areas of
strategic, business and project planning, process improvement,
decision making, and collaborative problem solving. Kristin
graduated with high honors from the United States Coast Guard
Academy. She also earned a MBA with an emphasis on Marketing
Strategy, from St. Mary’s College in California, where
she graduated with high honors.