Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help participants recognize the innate ability they have to learn new material.
Time Required: 10 to 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in “rotating” pairs.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To get small groups thinking together and creatively solving tough problems.
Time Required: 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five to seven.
Materials Required: A flipchart with the alphabet displayed vertically, prepared in advance by the trainer.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To introduce participants to one another by uncovering their individual tastes.
Time Required: 10 to 25 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To challenge participants to develop metaphors from everyday objects as an exercise in creativity.
Time Required: 10 to 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five to seven.
Materials Required: A paper sack for every small group, filled with a variety of everyday objects.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical: Sales
Purpose: To help sales trainees more readily absorb product information, ultimately producing material that can be used in new sales trainee orientation, as review material, or as job aids.
Time Required: 10 to 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help teams learn to set—and meet—group goals.
Time Required: 30 minutes, stretched over the course of a one-day session or over two days in a longer class.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in teams of about four.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To encourage participants to create their own review session and provide the trainer with a snapshot evaluation of the material.
Time Required: 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: None.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help participants think creatively in any type of training class.
Time Required: 10 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: Flipchart.

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To break the ice and help introduce participants to one another.
Time Required: 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: A list of autobiographical information for each participant, prepared in advance by the trainer.
The Exercise in Action: Dale Ditmanson, training specialist for the National Park Service, asks participants to send in an “autobiography” before his [...]

Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To engage participants creatively in a review of course material.
Time Required: 15 to 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should play the game in teams of three to six.
Materials Required: Index-sized “question cards,” prepared in advance by the trainer. Small “service” bells for as many as there are teams (the type found [...]