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

by El-Shamy,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780566085444
• ISBN10: 0566085445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
About this Book	ix
PART ONE: The Induction Process
Introduction to the Induction Process	3	(11)
The New Employee's Four Firsts	14	(6)
Induction Training Programmes	20	(9)
Induction Companion Programmes	29	(3)
Induction Instruction Materials	32	(5)
PART TWO: Dynamic Induction Games and Activities
Games for Inclusion	37	(4)
Games and Activities to Get Acquainted	39	(2)
Start the Music	41	(3)
Hello, My Name Is ...	44	(3)
Induction Round Robin	47	(3)
Let Me Give You My Card	50	(3)
Get Acquainted 4 x 4	53	(6)
Warm-ups and Ice Breakers	57	(2)
Three Degrees of Connection	59	(2)
Teacups and Coffee Mugs	61	(5)
Finding the Words	66	(4)
The First Job I Ever Had	70	(2)
How I Found This Job	72	(7)
Reassurance and Initiation Games	77	(2)
I'm Happy To Be Here, But ...	79	(3)
The New Person in a Group is Like ...	82	(3)
Reasons I'm Happy To Be Here	85	(4)
Caption Competition	89	(3)
A Picture Says It All	92	(7)
Games for Sharing Information	95	(4)
General Information Games	97	(2)
Pay Attention	99	(2)
A Maze of Information	101	(3)
Divide and Conquer	104	(5)
Games on Getting to Know the Work Environment	107	(2)
A Walking Tour	109	(3)
Treasure Hunt	112	(3)
The Best of Everything	115	(2)
Where's Where?	117	(6)
Compliance, Safety and Security Games	121	(2)
It's the Law	123	(2)
In Case of Emergency	125	(2)
A Sense of Security	127	(2)
Safety Tips	129	(2)
Where's the First-Aid Kit?	131	(4)
Human Resources Information Games	133	(2)
Money Matters	135	(3)
What's A Person To Do?	138	(3)
Overt and Covert	141	(3)
What To Do	144	(3)
All for You	147	(2)
Employee Development Opportunities	149	(6)
Understanding the Organization	153	(2)
Once Upon a Time	155	(2)
Where in the World is ...?	157	(2)
The Big Picture Frame	159	(2)
What We Are Famous For	161	(2)
Who's Who?	163	(2)
The Teamwork Puzzle	165	(3)
Quality and Customer Service Game	168	(2)
TLAs Are Everywhere!	170	(2)
Company Quiz Bowl	172	(3)
The Company Board Game	175	(10)
You and Your Job	181	(4)
Adjusting to the New Position	183	(2)
Where Do You Fit In?	185	(2)
What You Do and How You Do It	187	(2)
Measuring Up	189	(3)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	192	(2)
Now, Then and Some Day	194	(2)
Putting It All Together	196	(2)
Celebration Station	198	(3)
Index	201