- Paperback: 277 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0070213631
- ISBN-13: 978-0070213630
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.1 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 202,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Trainers have an insatiable need for games to use in the workplace. This collection gives them something not only new but unique: engaging activities based on research by a Harvard-trained psychologist whose groundbreaking work in creativity and problem-solving received worldwide praise. Presented in the same easy-to-use format as McGraw-Hill's best-selling "Games Trainers Play" series, this handbook will help trainers simulate innovation throughout the organization. They can use the 30 activities to develop in-depth workshops on creativity - or to spice up other types of training with creativity breaks. Epstein shows how to customize each exercise for different settings, and provides the nitty-gritty details trainers are looking for: lists of required and optional materials (always inexpensive and easily obtained), time recommendations, and reproducible handouts.
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Robert Epstein, Ph.D. (San Diego, CA) is Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today, host of the magazine's nationally-syndicated radio show, and University Research Professor at United States International University. Dr. Epstein holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and his research has been reported in Time, The New York Times, and Discover. His popular articles have appeared in The Washington Post and Reader's Digest.
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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A different approach, 12 Feb 2001
By Alex S.H. Cheung - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (Paperback)
This book focuses on the stimuli (inputs/old ideas) and effective capaturing of responses (outputs/creative ideas) vs most other books about creativity focus on the thinking process, like mindmapping, six hats, thinking toys, etc. Thus, it directs to a total different path of how we build an environment to boost creativity. My analogy is no matter what thinking process you introduce, a group of housewives cannot invent a racket to reach the moon (don't get me wrong, I highly respect housewives for their contribution to families). It's the relevancy and variety of the inputs that matters.I guess the author is a behaviourist who see thinking process as black box, i.e. non-observable and non-measurable. Thus, he only concentrates on the observable and measurable stimuli and responses.
I am a trainer for creativity for my company. I find this book very useful. The only complaint is that not all the games are up to my personal standard: able to demonstrate the theory AND able to energize the participants.
All in all, I highly recommand this book. You will see creativity in a different angle.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent, 6 Feb 2004
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (Paperback)
I've used Epstein's book together with Michalko's "Thinkertoys," in my creative thinking seminars with great success. You can't fail with these two books.
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uninspired, dry and clinical, 15 July 2007
By Creativity Counselor - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series) (Paperback)
A book about creativity, that lacks spark and "creativity" - it's too dry and clinical to be an enjoyable read and the exercises are uninspired. This material is dispassionate and lacks the flame it promises to ignite in others. As much as I admire the author's 15 years of clinical research, this book fall short in it's execution.
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