Interactive Strategies for Improving Performance: 10 Powerful Tools

If you are a performance technologist, instructional designer, facilitator, or trainer, you will repeatedly use the 10 powerful practical tools in this new collection of Thiagi's techniques.

All 10 tools share hands-on, minds-on, and hearts-in people-to-people interaction. The tools can add effectiveness and enjoyment to different performance-improvement interventions including training, teambuilding, knowledge management, and process improvement.

Each tool is clearly described in a structured-text format and illustrated with several examples. A complete, ready-to-use activity (with reproducible masters) follows the exploration of each tool. With the information and examples given, you can conduct, adapt, and design different types of interactive strategies.

Here are the 10 tools in this collection:

Classification Card Games help participants master stages in a process and categories in a classification system

Closers end your session effectively and motivate participants for immediate application

Email Games facilitate the sharing of best practices among participants around the globe

Improv Games improve creativity, collaboration, and communication

Instructional Puzzles intrigue participants and improve their problem-solving skills

Jolts deliver a wake-up call and provoke participants into re-examining their habitual practices

Matrix Games entice participants into discovering connections and generating breakthrough ideas

Paper-and-Pencil Games improve people-to-people interactions in a cost-effective fashion

Reflective Teamwork Activities merge content and process to develop high-performance teams

Training Devices embody kinesthetic learning and problem solving skills

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