ABSTRACT

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.

part One|34 pages

The Induction Process

chapter |11 pages

Introduction to the Induction Process

chapter |6 pages

The New Employee's Four Firsts

chapter |9 pages

Induction Training Programmes

chapter |3 pages

Induction Companion Programmes

chapter |3 pages

Induction Instruction Materials

part Two|166 pages

Dynamic Induction Games and Activities

chapter |58 pages

Games for Inclusion

chapter |18 pages

Games and Activities to Get Acquainted

chapter |3 pages

1. Start the Music

chapter |3 pages

2. Hello, My Name Is …

chapter |3 pages

3. Induction Round Robin

chapter |3 pages

4. Let Me Give You My Card

chapter |4 pages

5. Get Acquainted 4 × 4

chapter |20 pages

Warm-ups and Ice Breakers

chapter |2 pages

6. Three Degrees of Connection

chapter |5 pages

7. Teacups and Coffee Mugs

chapter |4 pages

8. Finding the Words

chapter |2 pages

9. The First Job I Ever Had

chapter |5 pages

10. How I Found This Job

chapter |18 pages

Reassurance and Initiation Games

chapter |3 pages

11. I'm Happy To Be Here, But …

chapter |4 pages

13. Reasons I'm Happy To Be Here

chapter |3 pages

14. Caption Competition

chapter |3 pages

15. A Picture Says It All

chapter |85 pages

Games for Sharing Information

chapter |10 pages

General Information Games

chapter |2 pages

16. Pay Attention

chapter |3 pages

17. A Maze of Information

chapter |3 pages

18. Divide and Conquer

chapter |3 pages

19. A Walking Tour

chapter |3 pages

20. Treasure Hunt

chapter |2 pages

21. The Best of Everything

chapter |4 pages

22. Where's Where?

chapter |12 pages

Compliance, Safety and Security Games

chapter |2 pages

23. It's the Law

chapter |2 pages

24. In Case of Emergency

chapter |2 pages

25. A Sense of Security

chapter |2 pages

26. Safety Tips

chapter |2 pages

27. Where's the First-Aid Kit?

chapter |20 pages

Human Resources Information Games

chapter |3 pages

28. Money Matters

chapter |3 pages

29. What's A Person To Do?

chapter |3 pages

30. Overt and Covert

chapter |3 pages

31. What To Do

chapter |2 pages

32. All for You

chapter |4 pages

33. Employee Development Opportunities

chapter |27 pages

Understanding the Organization

chapter |2 pages

34. Once Upon a Time

chapter |2 pages

35. Where in the World is …?

chapter |2 pages

36. The Big Picture Frame

chapter |2 pages

37. What We Are Famous For

chapter |2 pages

38. Who's Who?

chapter |3 pages

39. The Teamwork Puzzle

chapter |2 pages

40. Quality and Customer Service Game

chapter |2 pages

41. TLAs Are Everywhere!

chapter |3 pages

42. Company Quiz Bowl

chapter |5 pages

43. The Company Board Game

chapter |20 pages

You and Your Job

chapter |18 pages

Adjusting to the New Position

chapter |2 pages

44. Where Do You Fit In?

chapter |2 pages

45. What You Do and How You Do It

chapter |3 pages

46. Measuring Up

chapter |2 pages

47. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

chapter |2 pages

48. Now, Then and Some Day

chapter |2 pages

49. Putting It All Together

chapter |3 pages

50. Celebration Station