Brain Teasers for Team Leaders

Brain Tears for Team Leaders can help you in all these situations and more!

It's always a challenge to get a group focused on the topic at hand, and not what they left back on their desks. And as people attend more and more meetings this challenge is growing. Professional trainers have long known that word puzzles and number games are a great way to energize a team, to get everyone to work together, break the ice and generally inject a little fun into another mundane gathering.

Leslie Bendaly, a leading trainer and best-selling author, has compiled hundreds of activities that will bend the minds of even the most creative team members. Designed for professional use, she has assembled the games into eight categories:

• Brain Teasers - Encourages creativity with words and images that are not always what they seem
• What a Difference a Letter Makes - Explores vocabulary by adding a single letter to create new words
• Something in Common - Challenges a group to find a commonality in three seemingly unrelated words
• A Number of Things - Tests cleverness in combining letters and numbers to create expressions or phrases
• Before and After - Highlights the team's talent in dealing with word combinations
• Missing Letter - Focuses attention on finding the word on a wheel of letters
• Picture It - Challenges a team to think outside the box

Get the games and puzzles that professional trainer Leslie Bendaly is asked for again and again. Add Brain Teasers for Team Leaders to your professional toolkit and reap the rewards of more effective and dynamic teams!

Contents

• Energize Your Meetings ... v
• Brain Teasers ... 1
• What a Difference a Letter Makes ... 113
• Something in Common ... 137
• A Number of Things ... 195
• Before and After ... 211
• Missing Letter ... 241
• Picture It ... 259
• Mixed Bag ... 267
• Answers ... 293