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.