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Friday, February 24, 2012

Volume 2 of "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers" Released


Second Volume of the Book "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers"

(Book in printed format available at: https://www.createspace.com/3808938 and its eBook available at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007CIESMY)




Encouraged by the response to the first volume of "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers", authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume.

The first volume contained fifty games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers. The second volume contains fifty more.

Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar are multifaceted personalities. They are top notch business executives, highly sought after business/management consultants, eminent management gurus, authentic human behavior experts, humane psychologists, prolific authors, presenters par excellence and great human beings.

They are accomplished speakers with more than 40,000 hours of faculty experience. Around 150,000 persons must have benefited from their seminars and workshops.

In their seminars and workshops they use variety of management and business games, exercises, energizers and icebreakers for greater and richer participation of their audience. They have included many of those in this book.


This book, therefore, will be highly useful to all the management and business professionals, consultants, trainers, educationists, faculty members, teachers, event coordinators and students.

Titles of the games, exercises, energizers and Icebreakers included in the book are give below:
  1. Introductions by Way of Mutual Interests and Tastes                                                               
  2. Creative Numbers
  3. Handshakes and Laughs
  4. Change One Word
  5. Desert Survival
  6. Hot Hat or Hot Basket
  7. Create Many Words from One
  8. Original Johari Window Game/Exercise
  9. The Strategist
  10. Energetic Fellowship
  11. Prisoners’ Dilemma
  12. Line up by Birthdates
  13. Top up Your Money
  14. Candy Treat
  15. Marooned on an Island
  16. Uncover Your Time Wasters
  17. Exercise in Why Why or 5 Whys Analysis
  18. Promise of Implementation (Plan of Action)
  19. Follow Me
  20. Who Is the Best Observer?
  21. Pre and Post Program Quiz
  22. A to Z Review
  23. Problem Solving by Brain Writing
  24. Paradigm Shift
  25. Break and Make
  26. Remember as Much as You Can
  27. Principle Centered Living
  28. SMART Goal Setting
  29. Creative Nameplates
  30. Impromptu Public Speaking
  31. Shake and Wake
  32. You Are Now in the Corporate World, So What?
  33. Divided We Break
  34. Is Your Personality Type Causing Stresses?
  35. Bump the Hip
  36. Test the Perseverance
  37. Cheer up the Latecomers
  38. Playing Card Line-up
  39. Color or Letters?
  40. Bunch by Numbers
  41. Parallel Thinking (Consensus Building with Difference)
  42. Dream Organization
  43. Managing a Meeting
  44. Have You Learnt Counting?
  45. Distortions in Communication
  46. Cacophony
  47. Dumb Charade
  48. Even Sky Is Not the Limit
  49. You Are the Rock Star
  50. Better be Attentive in My Class
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Remember as Much as You Can

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Remember as Much as You Can

As an effective workshop/seminar leader you need an effective management exercise or game as an opener. "Remember as Much as You Can" fills up this need pretty well. You can use this individual and group exercise in your sessions or modules on personal/professional effectiveness enhancement, observation skills, team work, team building, strategy formulation, communication, synergy, time management etc.

Tell the participants of your workshop/seminar that each of them should give you one item that they have with them. It could be anything. They will receive that item back in their possession after the exercise is over. Preferably it should be an inexpensive item. Go to each one of them personally and collect the item. Make sure that you pick up from each one of them a unique item such that no item is duplicated. Advice the participants that they better remember the item they are handing over to you in order to retrieve their item after the exercise is finished.

This way you would have collected the number of unique items that will equal the number of participants. If the number of participants are less, add a few items from your side to make the total number of items equal to around 25 to 30 or so.

Place all of these items haphazardly on a table in the seminar room. Make sure to keep the items separated from each other so that these can be seen clearly.

Ask the participants to come near the table and observe the items paced on the table. They should observe and remember as many items as they can. Give them one minute to observe. Then they should revert to their seating place. Let them write down the names of the items they observed and remembered in their writing pads. Let them also make a count of it. They should turn over the page on which they wrote and open a fresh page in their note pad. They will not refer the earlier page until told to do so.

Now divide the participants randomly into a few groups; each group consisting of around 5 participants. Members of each group will sit together in a circle. Ask them they they will have to carry out the same exercise as a group. Each group should try to maximize its total number of observations. Before starting the exercise in groups, members in each group can have an internal meeting and discussion on how they wish to maximize their observations as a group.

Allow members of each group to go near the table group by group and make the observations for one minute and then return to their seating place. After coming back to their seats each member can write down the items seen and remembered by him on a fresh sheet of paper in his note pad. Later on they can pool up their individual item lists and make one common long list of all the combined observations in each group. Each group will count the total number of items they observed and put down that number on the paper.

Now ask each person the count of observations they made when they had carried out this exercise individually. Also ask each group to tell you the number of total observations they made during group working.

Invariably it will be seen that when participants worked as groups they performed much better together as compared to when they did the exercise individually.

Initiate a discussion and allow the participants to talk. The discussion will help clarify the issues and concepts related to observation skills, memory power, strategy formulation, team work, team building and synergy. Part of the discussion may also touch some aspects of time management.

Close the session with your observations, comments and any additional theoretical inputs you wish to give.

Here is your chance of buying the book “Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers” (Readers picked up 415+ copies of the book in just two weeks of January 2012):

For owning your copy/copies of the book, visit the following Amazon.com sites:

For eBook format: http://www.amazon.com/Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers-ebook/dp/B004OEKF0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1323836948&sr=1-1

For book in print form: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers/dp/1461029945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323837139&sr=1-1

Our Books Publications (Books authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar)

Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:
  1. HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware (Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)
  2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
  3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)
  4. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)
  5. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories
  6. Stories Children Will Love (Volume 1)
You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.
Or
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Break and Make

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Break and Make

You are a workshop/seminar leader and if you are looking out for a game/exercise that does not ask participants to use pencil and paper, "Break and Make" is the answer. You can gainfully use it in your training sessions or modules on communication, leadership, motivation, team work, team building, strategy and problem solving. It also works as good energizer. It can be played in-door as well as out-door.

Divide your workshop participants into groups of around ten participants each. Administer  this game as a competition among these groups. The group that finishes the game the fastest will be the winner. If you like, you may announce a prize for the winning group.

Direct each group the way it is described in the following paragraphs.

Ask the members of each group to form a circle. Now a person in the circle will move towards the center of the circle. Simultaneously the person opposite him in the circle will also start moving towards the center. As both of them meet at the center of the circle they will clasp each others' hands. This act will be repeated by the set of two other members standing opposite each other in the circle. They too will clasp hands such that their hands are place over and above the clasped hands of the other pair. This way all the remaining members will also clasp hands by reaching the center and get entangled with the rest of the pairs. By now they would have knotted themselves with each other in a complex manner.

Now ask the members of the knotted group to disentangle themselves and return the circle to its original shape. Put a condition that in forming the circle they should not release the hands tied as pairs. They will be allowed to communicate and discuss with each other.

Observe how they demonstrate their strategy formulation, communication, leadership, motivation, team work/team building and problem solving skills.

Based on such observations, start a discussion among the participants after they have completed the "Break and Make" exercise. Let participants start talking group by group. Fill them in with your observations and comments.

Wrap up the game by giving any additional inputs that you wish to impart.

Here is your chance of buying the book “Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers” (Readers picked up 415+ copies of the book in just two weeks of January 2012):

For owning your copy/copies of the book, visit the following Amazon.com sites:

For eBook format: http://www.amazon.com/Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers-ebook/dp/B004OEKF0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1323836948&sr=1-1

For book in print form: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers/dp/1461029945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323837139&sr=1-1

Our Books Publications (Books authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar)

Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:
  1. HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware (Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)
  2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers
  3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)
  4. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)
  5. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories
  6. Stories Children Will Love (Volume 1)
You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.
Or
Persons residing in India may like to write to our email address prodcons@prodcons.com and order your copies.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Paradigm Shift

    
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Paradigm Shift

“Paradigm Shift” is an all time important issue. You being a faculty or a trainer must be finding the need to highlight the concepts of  paradigms in your various workshops and seminars irrespective of what topics or modules they cover. So, here is an exercise that you will find quite handy and useful in explaining the “paradigms” and “paradigm shift”.

Give each one of your workshop/seminar participants the following jumbled up pieces of words and phrases  written on a paper. Ask them to read the words/phrases carefully and let them select out at a time two of them as a pair such that in each selected pair one word or phrase is almost or completely opposite of the other word or phrase.

As a demonstration, select out from the distributed paper the phrases “Hard work’” and “Smart work”. Ask your program participants to make two columns on their note pad, the title of the first column being “Old Way” and that of the other being “New Way”. Ask them to fill the first column with “Hard work” as the old way of doing any work and the second column with “Smart work” as the new way of doing the work. Explain to them that “working hard” was an old paradigm and “working smart” has replaced it as a new paradigm of working.

Tell them that they should start picking up the rest of the pairs of words/phrases from the jumbled up list given to them and arrange the phrases/words in the two columns.
________________________________________________________________________________
         Local                          Collaborate                       Work designed by employees
Add cost             Control-order-predict (COP)
    Internal alliance                           Command              First time right
Idea-intensive production                                                    Uncovering errors
                      Individual courses   
Lateral                        Add value                     Material-intensive production
High trust                                              Continuous learning
Low trust                                        Hard work
Work designed by management                                                   Hiding errors
                                   Internal competition
    Hierarchical                                      Acknowledge-create-empower (ACE)
                           Smart work                          Global             Rework
________________________________________________________________________________

They may need some fifteen to twenty minutes to complete this exercise. You may notice that some participants may give up some way down the lane.

Now ask the person who completed the exercise the fastest to shout out the arrangement of phrases/words in the two columns. If he goes wrong in some cases, you can invite other participants to correct. If no one volunteers in some specific cases, you can fill them in.

The exercise does not end here. Now ask the participants to extend the list in “Old Way” and “New Way” columns by at least 10 more entries. The opposing paradigms added by them should be based on their observations, knowledge, experience and their own thinking. They can as well add some new paradigms of futuristic nature through their own imagination.

Request the participants to present their paradigm shift extensions to the list with their explanations wherever necessary.

It is an experiential learning exercise and by the time they finish with the whole exercise they will have adequate clarity on the concepts of paradigm and paradigm shift. They would have also learnt and realized the importance and necessity of becoming flexible in their thinking patterns about various aspects of their personal, professional, family and social lives.

Here is your chance of buying the book “Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers” (Readers picked up 415+ copies of the book in just two weeks of January 2012):

For owning your copy/copies of the book, visit the following Amazon.com sites:

For eBook format: http://www.amazon.com/Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers-ebook/dp/B004OEKF0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1323836948&sr=1-1

For book in print form: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers/dp/1461029945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323837139&sr=1-1

Our Books Publications (Books authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar)

Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:

1.HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)
2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and
Icebreakers
3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)
4. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories
5. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)

You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.
Or
Persons residing in India may like to write to our email address prodcons@prodcons.comand order your copies.

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For More Guidance, Assistance, Training and Consultation

Contact: prodcons@prodcons.com

Training in all the soft skills and various management functions/techniques is imparted by Prodcons Group’s Mr Shyam Bhatawdekar and/or Dr (Mrs) Kalpana Bhatawdekar, eminent management educationists, management consultants and trainers- par excellence, with distinction of having trained over 150,000 people from around 250 organizations.

Also refer: (Prodcons Group) http://prodcons-group.blogspot.com/, (Training Programs by Prodcons Group) http://training-development-function.blogspot.com/, (Productivity Consultants) http://productivity-consultants.blogspot.com/

Monday, January 9, 2012

Problem Solving by Brain Writing

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Problem Solving by Brain Writing

This exercise is apt for your training programs on problem solving techniques, creative problem solving, participative problem solving, creativity, brainstorming/brain writing, team work etc. As a faculty or leader of a workshop or seminar, you can choose a problem of a general nature that is somewhat familiar to your audience and then lead them in solving that problem by using brain writing technique rather than the conventional brain storming technique.

Brain writing engages the minds of even those participants who are shy of speaking in a group. The conventional brainstorming requires the members of the brainstorming group to offer their ideas by way of oral communication. In brain writing the ideas are written down by the members of the group.

To start the exercise display on the white board or the flip chart the statement of the problem- the problem that you want the group members to solve through their various suggestions.

For example the problem statement you choose may be: “In your opinion what are the various ways in which the human beings can tackle the environmental pollution problem?” Another suggested problem could be: “In your opinion what steps husband and wife can take to make theirs a happy marriage?” or “In your opinion what should be done in the organization to control the costs?” and so on.

You are free to choose any problem or you can even invite participants’ suggestions on selecting the problem. Having decided on the problem, paraphrase it in the form of a problem statement and display it for all to see all the time this exercise is on.

Distribute to each participant a blank A4 size paper and a pencil. Now ask them to write down on the paper as many suggestions they can think in order to solve the problem. They should give serial numbers to each of their suggestions and write in legible handwriting.

After every participant has consumed all of his suggestions, ask each participant to pass on his paper to the participant sitting next to him. Thus now every participant has a paper on which already some ideas have been noted. Let each participant read these earlier written ideas and if new ideas spring up in his mind he should add them below the already written suggestions by extending the serial numbers. The ideas should not be repeated. Only new ideas should be added up.

Again circulate the papers and repeat the exercise. This process will continue till the paper with the suggestions written by a particular person travels back to him.

Now ask the first person sitting nearest to you to read out loudly only the unique ideas noted on his paper. Repeated ideas if any should be skipped. As he reads the ideas one by one from his paper, you should write them on the white board or a large flip chart by giving each idea a serial number. When the first person exhausts all the suggestions from his paper, ask the second person to read out only the unique suggestions from the paper he is holding skipping out the repeat suggestions. Ask all the persons to read out the unique ideas this way and you should keep on extending the list on the white board/large flip chart. We will call this list a long list of ideas.

Now instruct that every participant should select out from the long list the most important five ideas- the ideas (which as per him) if implemented will solve a large degree of the problem. Advise them to maintain the objectivity. They need not write the entire description of the ideas on their writing pad but just pick up the serial numbers of the selected ideas as written on the white board (the long list). They should arrange those five selected ideas in terms of their importance and usefulness. Ask each participant to assign 5 marks to the most important idea, 4 marks to the next most important idea and so on till he assigns 1 mark to the least important idea.

Ask each participant turn by turn to shout out the serial number of their selected five ideas and the marks assigned to them. You will transfer those marks next to that idea on the long list on the white board/flip chart. It will be seen that some particular ideas will start accumulating more and more marks and some ideas may even be left out by all the participants. After you have collected the marks from all the participants and accumulated them against each of the ideas on the long list, total up the marks gained by each idea.

Now rearrange (by re-writing) the list of ideas in the descending order of the marks gained by them leaving out entirely those ideas which did not secure any marks from the audience.
Select out top few ideas (may be 5 to 6 ideas) from the newly rank ordered list of solutions in consultation with the audience. These will be those ideas if implemented will solve 90% to 95% of the stated problem.

The is a wonderful experiential learning exercise and you may not be required to explain much after the exercise is over. Your participants would have grasped the inputs that you meant to give them. The exercise will also act as an excellent energizer for the rest of your program.


Here is your chance of buying the book "Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers" (Readers picked up 415+ copies of the book in just two weeks of January 2012):

For owning your copy/copies of the book, visit the following Amazon.com sites:

For eBook format: http://www.amazon.com/Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers-ebook/dp/B004OEKF0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1323836948&sr=1-1
For book in print form: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers/dp/1461029945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323837139&sr=1-1

Our Books Publications (Books authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar)

Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:

1.HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)
2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and
Icebreakers
3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)
4. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories
5. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)

You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.
Or
Persons residing in India may like to write to our email address prodcons@prodcons.comand order your copies.

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For More Guidance, Assistance, Training and Consultation

Contact: prodcons@prodcons.com

Training in all the soft skills and various management functions/techniques is imparted by Prodcons Group’s Mr Shyam Bhatawdekar and/or Dr (Mrs) Kalpana Bhatawdekar, eminent management educationists, management consultants and trainers- par excellence, with distinction of having trained over 150,000 people from around 250 organizations.

Also refer: (Prodcons Group) http://prodcons-group.blogspot.com/, (Training Programs by Prodcons Group) http://training-development-function.blogspot.com/, (Productivity Consultants) http://productivity-consultants.blogspot.com/

A to Z Review


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(Refer for the most authentic articles on Building Leadership and Management: http://shyam.bhatawdekar.com

(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia Management Universe at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)

A to Z Review
 
Every workshop or seminar leader (faculty) like you sincerely wants to find out how effectively he delivered his program. You wish to know if your program participants grasped the inputs you provided them. Can they correctly answer the questions based on the contents of your program? In addition to meeting this objective it is a good practice to recap the inputs given in your program in your last session before concluding the program. This helps improve the retention of the knowledge by the participants. The best way to achieve these twin objectives is to engage the participants creatively in the review of their learnings.

Prior to actually conducting your workshop/seminar, you will need to prepare 26 questions the answers to which will result in the comprehensive review of the entire contents of your program.

Write each question on one index card. Thus you will have 26 cards with you. On other side of the card, write an English alphabet starting with “A” on the first card and going right up to “Z” on the 26th card.

After you have conducted all the sessions of your program, in your last session of recap and review, divide the participants into groups, each group consisting of 4 to 5 participants picked up randomly. Give each group a bell.

Now list the 26 alphabets in bold font on single sheet of a flip chart and display them. Ask groups to select any alphabet randomly. Start with the first group first. Suppose the first group selects an alphabet say, “D”, then cross mark the alphabet “D” on the flip chart and pick out the index card “D” from the 26 cards you are holding. Read the question of this card “D” loudly and clearly.

Ask the groups to ring the bell if any of the groups know the answer to that question. The group that rings the bell the fastest will get the first opportunity to answer the question. If the group’s answer is correct, give the card to that group. If the answer is wrong, the group that rang the bell the second fastest will be given the opportunity to answer the question and so on. Finally the group answering correctly will get that card.

Second time the second group will pick up the alphabet from the flip chart randomly and the process as described above will be executed.

Thus the groups will take turns selecting alphabets. As they select alphabet, you will cross off that alphabet from the flip chart and read the question written on the corresponding card. When a question is answered correctly, you will hand over the card to the successful group.

The game/exercise will end when all the 26 questions have been read and answered. When none of the groups is in a position to answer the question correctly, you will provide its answer and keep that particular card with yourself.

The group that collects the maximum number of cards will be declared the winner. You may like to give a prize to the winner group. If number of groups are many then you may like to give prizes to top two or three groups.

Thanks the participants and conclude your program.

Here is your chance of buying the book “Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and Icebreakers" (Readers picked up 415+ copies of the book in just two weeks of January 2012):

For owning your copy/copies of the book, visit the following Amazon.com sites:

For eBook format: http://www.amazon.com/Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers-ebook/dp/B004OEKF0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1323836948&sr=1-1

For book in print form: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Management-Exercises-Energizers-Icebreakers/dp/1461029945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323837139&sr=1-1

Our Books Publications (Books authored by Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar)

Own your copy/copies of the following bestseller books authored by eminent management gurus and consultants Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar:

1.HSoftware (Human Software) (The Only Key to Higher Effectiveness) or HSoftware Shyam Bhatawdekar’s Effectiveness Model)
2. Classic Management Games, Exercises, Energizers and
Icebreakers
3. Sensitive Stories of Corporate World (Management Case Studies)
4. Funny (and Not So Funny) Short Stories
5. Stress? No Way!! (Handbook on Stress Management)
 
You may like to go to the above-mentioned titles (web links) and order your copies on Amazon.com on Internet. The books are available in printed form and also as eBooks.
Or
Persons residing in India may like to write to our email address prodcons@prodcons.comand order your copies.

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For More Guidance, Assistance, Training and Consultation

Contact: prodcons@prodcons.com

Training in all the soft skills and various management functions/techniques is imparted by Prodcons Group’s Mr Shyam Bhatawdekar and/or Dr (Mrs) Kalpana Bhatawdekar, eminent management educationists, management consultants and trainers- par excellence, with distinction of having trained over 150,000 people from around 250 organizations.

Also refer: (Prodcons Group) http://prodcons-group.blogspot.com/, (Training Programs by Prodcons Group) http://training-development-function.blogspot.com/, (Productivity Consultants) http://productivity-consultants.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Pre and Post Program Quiz


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Pre and Post Program Quiz
 
Every workshop or seminar leader (faculty) like you sincerely wants to find out his program’s effectiveness. The measure of real effectiveness is how much and how well the participants grasped the subject matter and improved their knowledge level from your program. At the end of your program are they really equipped well to implement what you covered in your program? What has been the percentage improvement in them- how much knowledgeable they were before attending your program and how much more knowledgeable they became after attending your program?

One of the best ways of doing it is to design a suitable and effective questionnaire (quiz) covering all the topics you plan to cover through your workshop/seminar. The questions should be objective type questions and number of questions should depend upon the number of topics you would cover in your program. Against each question indicate the marks the participants can score if they answer the question correctly. Normally the duration of the quiz could be around 30 to 45 minutes or so.

At the start of your program give each participant this quiz (the hard copy) and ask them to answer the question on the same sheet of paper after writing their name on top of the page. At the expiry of the duration allowed for tackling the quiz, instruct that each person should pass on his answer sheet to the person sitting next to him. Thus each person will have some one else’s answer sheet. Read out the correct answer and let each participant score out the marks on the answer sheet he is holding and add up the total marks. Collect all the answer sheets with marks written on them.

After you have finished teaching all the topics of the program as planned, repeat the above-mentioned exercise at the end of the program. Give the same quiz- a new sheet to each participant. After each answer sheet has been evaluated by a fellow participant and marks written on it, collect all the answer sheets.

Pull out the pre-program and post program answer sheets participant-wise and staple them together so that you can readily see the marks obtained by each and every participant at the beginning of the program when he was not exposed to the topics and the marks obtained by him after getting exposed to the topics through your program. Declare their marks and the extent of improvement each participant showed by learning in your program. Work out the percentage improvements.

Let the entire class clap for each participant as you declare the results of everyone’s performance in the quiz. Let them know that they are much better off after learning.

Also, submit a report to your client giving feedback on the effectiveness of your training program.

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