The Little Book of Big Energizers: Make Your Meetings More Fun, More Focused, and Simply More Fabulous!

By Jeannine McGlade and Andrew Pek

This little book of BIG energizers is for anyone who has to facilitate or conduct any meeting, of any kind, for any length of time, for any purpose. Whether you are facilitating weekly or monthly team meetings, ideation sessions, training workshops, strategy meetings, OD interventions, any type of meeting whatsoever, this little book is for you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Feb 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781490787251

Jeannine McGlade

Andrew Pek is an internationally recognized leader, working at the intersection of strategy, innovation and technology. Andrew coaches CEOs and senior executives to build more agile and innovative organizations. He has published several award winning books including, Stimulated! Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work as well as many articles on innovative leaders and cultures. He has been invited to speak and share his views about innovation and design thinking on national news networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox. Andrew lives with his family and Hungarian Vizsla in New York. Jeannine McGlade consults to large and small organizations across several industries on design thinking, innovation, communication and leadership. She helps to create corporate cultures where innovative behavior is a habit and coaches, trains and speaks on how to unlock the creative energy of the workforce for optimal results. Her best selling book with co-author, Andrew Pek, Stimulated! Habits to Spark Your Creative Genius at Work sold over 10,000 copies and reached a wide audience around the globe. Jeannine is also a certified yoga instructor and Reiki Master and enjoys travel, learning languages and eating Brooklyn pizza! She lives with her family in New York.

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Copyright 2018 Jeannine McGlade and Andrew Pek.

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ISBN: 978-1-4907-8717-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4907-8725-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018932957

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Contents

I-SCREAM

What Kind of Animal?

Wrap Dance

Name That Tune

Shoe Toss

Freeze-Frame

Mob

Stress Rub

Sing a Song

Stock Market

Energy Tank

Story Telling

Picture Perfect

Pass the Ball

Tangled

Forbidden Words

Say, What?

In the Bag

Stretch it Out

Mantra Madness

20 Questions

Many Uses

Songwriting

Choosing Sides

Unexpected Guests

Imagine

Trivia

Charades

Picture This

Symbols

Four Corners

Owner of the Keys

Contributions and Dedication

The authors would like to thank Ian Limbaga for his creative and stimulating illustrations and Patricia Hall for her thorough editing of the content in this (and so many other) book projects!

This book is dedicated to all of our clients past and present. Because you trusted us, we grew together, had fun, and did great work together. Thank you!

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Introduction

This little book of BIG energizers is for anyone who has to facilitate or conduct any meeting, of any kind, for any length of time, for any purpose. Whether you are facilitating weekly or monthly team meetings, ideation sessions, training workshops, strategy meetings, OD interventions, any type of meeting whatsoever, this little book is for you!

Our guess is that you picked up this book to add a little fun to your meetings or kick up the energy in your meetings. Or maybe you’re tired of conducting or attending so many meetings that are just either flat out boring or where you find yourself (or others!) daydreaming or doing other things! Research suggests that some of us spend up to 50% of our time