50 Communications Activities
50 Communications
Activities, Icebreakers,
and Exercises
Peter R. Garber
HRD Press, Inc. ? Amherst ? Massachusetts
Copyright ? 2008, Peter R. Garber
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Contents
Part I. Communications Principles
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Communications Is an Art............................................
Communicating Time .................................................
Communications Is the Key..........................................
I Know You Believe You Understand ...............................
Communications Model...............................................
Listening Dilemma ....................................................
Interactive Listening Tips............................................
Listening Bad Habits ..................................................
Listening Questionnaire ..............................................
Seven Levels of Listening ............................................
Silent Messages ........................................................
The Three Levels of Communications .............................
Nonverbal Listening Test ............................................
Laws of Remembering ................................................
Laws of Forgetting ....................................................
Meaning of Words .....................................................
Communications Circles..............................................
Attention Spans .......................................................
Meaning of Listening..................................................
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Part II. Communications Icebreakers
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Vanity Name Cards....................................................
Repeating Introductions .............................................
Circle, Square, Triangle, or Z .......................................
Introducing Each Other ..............................................
Fantasy Career ........................................................
Name that Participant ...............................................
Story of Your Name ...................................................
Nickname Game .......................................................
Introduction Bingo ....................................................
Card Match .............................................................
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Part III. Communications Exercises
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Reading Test ...........................................................
The Longest Line ......................................................
Color Block .............................................................
Following Directions ..................................................
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50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises
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Train Story .............................................................
Count the Ss ...........................................................
Communications Shutdowns.........................................
Repeat the Question..................................................
Quick Answers .........................................................
Rephrasing Exercise ..................................................
Wedding Story .........................................................
Who Done It?...........................................................
Picture Puzzle .........................................................
Creative Fairy Tale ...................................................
Rumors..................................................................
The Shoe Store ........................................................
Two Moose Sitting on a Log .........................................
Communications Styles...............................................
¡°Oh¡± ....................................................................
Word Games ...........................................................
Trading Cards ..........................................................
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Preface
Communications plays such a big part in our lives
today. It is hard to think of a single activity that
we engage in that doesn¡¯t involve communications
in some way. In our busy world, we sometimes
forget just how important communications are to
our success, relationships, and, ultimately, happiness in life. But, indeed, communications does
play a major role in achieving all of our goals.
These 50 communications activities are
designed to help participants become more aware
and prepared to 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. These activities will
make participants think about communications in
new and different ways than they ever did before.
They will also find these exercises not only useful
but memorable as well.
I hope you enjoy learning and presenting
these communications exercises as much as I have
over the past three decades of using them to help
people become better communicators. Each is
time tested and ageless. Have fun presenting
these activities along with those you present them
to for many years to come.
Peter R. Garber
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