Team building is a proven approach for helping people become respectful competitors, cooperative team members, and community leaders. Now you can help your students or group develop those same important skills with >Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices.>The authors, with two successful books on team building and 30 years of team-building experience, offer a day-by-day guide for implementing activities and challenges for individual sessions, units, or an entire semester.The activities and challenges are geared to beginning through advanced participants in a variety of settings, and they help participants develop the following valuable skills:·Problem solving·Appropriate risk taking·Building working relationships·Cooperation·Leadership and communication·Creative thinking·Building trust·Making decisions·Setting goals·Developing physical skillsIn chapters 1 and 2 the authors introduce the concept of team building, including its benefits, its connection with adventure education and community building, and the process involved in building a team. Chapters 3 and 4 provide assessment tools and safety strategies. Chapter 5 offers a sample college course outline in team building. You'll find icebreaker and community activities in chapter 6, and in chapters 7 through 9 you can choose from an array of introductory, intermediate, and advanced challenges. Chapter 10 provides character development and community-building challenges, and an appendix lays out challenge cards, useful forms, reports, and examples.In addition, Essentials of Team Building: Principles and Practices includes·58 activities and challenges for beginning through advanced teams;·reproducible forms for organizing, presenting, and evaluating team-building challenges;·ready-to-use unit and semester plans with evaluation tools for each activity; and·a bound-in DVD with video clips of 25 challenge demonstrations and reproducible challenge and organizer cards.