50 Ways to Liven Up Your Meetings

A collection of games for keeping people involved in meetings, and tools and technquies for structuring problem-solving, encouraging good communication and action planning. Some involve preparation, others can be introduced as and when they are needed. None require special materials. Each of the 50 ways is clearly signposted and simply described, which means that you can prepare yourself in advance of a meeting and introduce an exercise or a technique, if and when you need it, with a minimum of fuss. The majority of the exercises are equally suited as planned structured interventions that you introduce as part of an ongoing programme for improving regular meetings such as team meetings, project group meetings or problem-solving sessions. The collection is very varied, to give you the widest possible "toolkit" of solutions, and includes brain teasers and lateral thinking exercises, humorous interludes, ways of introducing a new group or of creating rapport and techniques for analyzing data or action planning. There are tools that focus on the way the group is working during the meeting, as well as techniques for tackling the content - for helping to generate new ways of looking at a problem if you get stuck.