Dynamic Induction: Games, Activities and Ideas to Revitalize your Employee Induction Process

by Susan El-Shamy

Overview

Dynamic Induction: Games, Activities and Ideas to Revitalise Your Employee Induction Process is a practical guide to upgrading your induction process and actively facilitating the new employee's becoming a positive, productive member of the organization as quickly as possible. This informative, straightforward book has been designed to make it simple for you to take action and repair, revitalize or even rebuild your entire new-employee orientation and assimilation procedure into a dynamic and engaging process that will improve communication, co-operation and group cohesiveness. Using a series of assessments, quizzes, charts and checklists, this instructive handbook presents more than 200 ideas and suggestions for enhancing and energizing your complete induction process, starting from the moment a new employee accepts the job. Dynamic Induction also provides you with 50 games and structured activities that can be used to impart work-related information to staff embarking on a new job. These games and activities can be used in all of the instruction-related aspects of your induction process, including planned actions taken to welcome and help the new person as well as specific learning events designed to accelerate the integration of the new employee into the workforce.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317147428
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/29/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr Susan El-Shamy is Senior Partner at Advancement Strategies, Inc., a training and development resources company based in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. In her 20 years as a training professional, Susan has worked with a variety of clients including Berlitz, Corning, Mattel, Motorola, Thomson Consumer Electronics and various government agencies. She is a regular guest lecturer at the Indiana University School of Business and a frequent speaker at national training conferences. Susan has a BA in Radio and Television, an MA in English, and a Doctor of Education degree in Counselling and Guidance.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Induction Process; Chapter 1 Introduction to the Induction Process; Chapter 2 The New Employee’s Four Firsts; Chapter 3 Induction Training Programmes; Chapter 4 Induction Companion Programmes; Chapter 5 Induction Instruction Materials; Part 2 Dynamic Induction Games and Activities; Chapter 6 Games for Inclusion; Chapter 7 Games and Activities to Get Acquainted; Chapter 8 1. Start the Music; Chapter 9 2. Hello, My Name Is …; Chapter 10 3. Induction Round Robin; Chapter 11 4. Let Me Give You My Card; Chapter 12 5. Get Acquainted 4 × 4; Chapter 13 Warm-ups and Ice Breakers; Chapter 14 6. Three Degrees of Connection; Chapter 15 7. Teacups and Coffee Mugs; Chapter 16 8. Finding the Words; Chapter 17 9. The First Job I Ever Had; Chapter 18 10. How I Found This Job; Chapter 19 Reassurance and Initiation Games; Chapter 20 11. I’m Happy To Be Here, But …; Chapter 21 12. The New Person in a Group is Like …; Chapter 22 13. Reasons I’m Happy To Be Here; Chapter 23 14. Caption Competition; Chapter 24 15. A Picture Says It All; Chapter 25 Games for Sharing Information; Chapter 26 General Information Games; Chapter 27 16. Pay Attention; Chapter 28 17. A Maze of Information; Chapter 29 18. Divide and Conquer; Chapter 30 Games on Getting to Know the Work Environment; Chapter 31 19. A Walking Tour; Chapter 32 20. Treasure Hunt; Chapter 33 21. The Best of Everything; Chapter 34 22. Where’s Where?; Chapter 35 Compliance, Safety and Security Games; Chapter 36 23. It’s the Law; Chapter 37 24. In Case of Emergency; Chapter 38 25. A Sense of Security; Chapter 39 26. Safety Tips; Chapter 40 27. Where’s the First-Aid Kit?; Chapter 41 Human Resources Information Games; Chapter 42 28. Money Matters; Chapter 43 29. What’s A Person To Do?; Chapter 44 30. Overt and Covert; Chapter 45 31. What To Do; Chapter 46 32. All for You; Chapter 47 33. Employee Development Opportunities; Chapter 48 Understanding the Organization; Chapter 49 34. Once Upon a Time; Chapter 50 35. Where in the World is …?; Chapter 51 36. The Big Picture Frame; Chapter 52 37. What We Are Famous For; Chapter 53 38. Who’s Who?; Chapter 54 39. The Teamwork Puzzle; Chapter 55 40. Quality and Customer Service Game; Chapter 56 41. TLAs Are Everywhere!; Chapter 57 42. Company Quiz Bowl; Chapter 58 43. The Company Board Game; Chapter 59 You and Your Job; Chapter 60 Adjusting to the New Position; Chapter 61 44. Where Do You Fit In?; Chapter 62 45. What You Do and How You Do It; Chapter 63 46. Measuring Up; Chapter 64 47. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Chapter 65 48. Now, Then and Some Day; Chapter 66 49. Putting It All Together; Chapter 67 50. Celebration Station;

Editorial Reviews

'Dynamic Induction not only makes a strong case for the importance of a comprehensive induction program, it also provides a treasure trove of ideas on how to do it effectively. The author's grasp of sound learning theory translates into a book full of checklists, exercises and games to promote skill building and ensure effective induction. It transforms training into learning and, best of all, shows that learning can be fun. This practical, creative book belongs on every trainer's bookshelf - not just as a guide for induction programs, but as a valuable collection of interactive learning exercises.' Susan Gastony, Indiana University, USA 'This book is a very useful and instructive book ... (it) is dynamic, it is an accumulation of the experience, and learning, about induction the Susan El-Shamy has built up during her 20 years as a training professional. It is an invaluable addition to any trainer's bookshelf. It will enable trainers to develop their own dynamic induction processes, by choosing the appropriate games and activities to meet the needs of their organisations and new recruits.' Institute of Training and Occupational Learning, Nov. 2003 ' I can recommend this book to anyone considering planning induction programmes, experienced trainers who are seeking new approaches or different activities within their active approaches, and managers without trainer back-up who will find the activities in many cases are almost stand-alone and can be used directly. Ratings: Innovation **** Content **** Clarity ***** Overall recommendation **** Value for money ****' Training Journal, Nov. 2003 'Overall, the book is immensely informative and instructive and can be described as a compendium on induction containing a straightforward how-to agenda. ... The prescriptions in the book, if followed, will help in the direction of improving communication and cohesiveness. It impressed me immensely, as it contains a very rich source of ideas on induction. I read i

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