58 Ways to Improvise in Training: Improvisation Games and Activities for Workshops, Courses and Team Meetings

by Paul Z. Jackson

58 Ways to Improvise in Training is a 'hands on' book full of ideas to help trainers energise groups large and small. It's a book that will remain on my desk rather than propping it up! - Leslie Spiers, Managing Director, Proem Consulting Limited

176 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2000

Reviews

[Doug]

Five stars but you have to be the right audience. This book will NOT start you from scratch and tell you how to create a workshop, or course, or anything like that. This is an intermediate book - it assumes that you already know how to run a workshop, and are looking for specific activities to use. Mr. Jackson has an excellent classification scheme, so you can how long the activities take, what skills they teach/reinforce, their difficulty, etc. He also has prompts for debriefing, extensions, and other good things.

Paul Jackson knows his stuff - he has been successfully doing this for years and is the founder of the global applied improvisation network - so you know each activity has been field tested many times before it went in the book.

My only complaint is I would have liked the debriefing ideas to be fleshed out a bit more - sometimes I felt it was "Here are good questions to ask" but I was unclear on why they were good questions - what is the goal?

I was doing a workshop recently and needed a couple more good ideas to flesh it out. I consulted this book and what I used worked perfectly.