Learn-O-Grams: Pictorial Puzzles To Warm Up, Wind Down, And Energize Learning

This book offers trainers and facilitators a guide to using Learn-O-Grams visual puzzles that encourage the use of both the left and right brain. The puzzles can be used in a variety of ways: combine a number of puzzles they come in varying degrees of difficulty to create an instant competitive or cooperative team game; use them as ice-breakers or energy jolts; or as a device to stimulate participant's in preparation for formal, subject-specific content. Planning and creative problem solving skills are necessary to coordinate and solve the puzzles, which are presented in sets of increasing difficulty. Corporate trainers can use this book with teams or groups of all sizes from small workshops to large-scale presentations. As a team-building device, Learn-O-Grams encourage groups to become more open, vulnerable and alert to the needs of each other. When combined with feedback, Learn-O-Grams facilitate improve communication and trust within teams.