The Big Book of Motivation Games Paperback – June 13, 2001

I am currently pursuing a degree in elementary education. One of my courses required me to do a presentation on motivation in the classroom. This book was very helpful in inspiring ideas for motivational activities. It is full of wonderderful fun activities thatn can easily be modified for different situations. I like that organizes according to objective, and each activities lists a time frame. I am certain I will use this book for many years.

I like activities for workshops and I find someones, but I preferido activities with no writing needs or layaout need it.

Excellent product, good price and fast delivery service. thanks

I bought this book after reading "The Big Book of Humorous Training Games" (an excellent handbook). This one was way below my expectations. It is not really a book for a trainer. Perhaps it never claimed to be one, but I was left with that impression, because these "Big Books" are something of a series, right?About this one - there is a nice short presentation of motivation and a useful interpretation of it as a set of skills. You can make some training exercises for those skills. But not with this book. After the intro, the games are almost useless. Evidently Dr. Epstein is not a trainer - he doesn't have our approach to make an experience out of an idea/theory. He just mechanistically turned some ideas into short (really short) activities, most of them verbal or mental, without much interaction or immersion. The ideas themselves are not astounding or attitude-shifting - they are good old wise ideas about motivation that everybody knows but forgets to use. I also don't think these ideas grow out of a wide base of psychological research and knowledge. It's mainly from Behaviorism, and a tiny vein of it.So, the book might be good for self-monitoring. For training - well - depending on your own experience and current problem, you can come up with a few ideas reading the book. But all in all, it is not worth the money (not the time, because you can read it in an hour).

I utilize this book quite often to kick off sales meetings and have found the exercises to be fun and always with a point. My groups seem to enjoy them as well. This is a great book for people who needs ideas, but tend to run out of them.

After skinmming thru this reference book, I am excited that it has several activities that I will use in my trainings.

The book contains nothing that will be of value to our organization. In fact, most aren't really games at all. I was looking for some fun activites to motivate the staff and I should have spent the money from this book on cookies instead!

Nice ideas, but I couldn't find any game that would possibly motivate my audience.