50 Brain Teasers for Meetings, Presentations and Training Sessions

Citation

(2001), "50 Brain Teasers for Meetings, Presentations and Training Sessions", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 22 No. 7. https://doi.org/10.1108/lodj.2001.02222gae.007

50 Brain Teasers for Meetings, Presentations and Training Sessions

50 Brain Teasers for Meetings, Presentations and Training Sessions

Graham Roberts-Phelps and Anne McDougallGowerAldershot1999156 pp.£18.950 566 07978 X (paperback)

This is a brilliant book with everything you need to present 50 brainteasers – stories, cartoons, captions, photocopiable material and OHP templates. The brainteasers are the sort that you normally find in those lateral thinking quiz books and are certainly fun (although not all are original – some are rather tired reproductions of all teases). My only criticism of this book is that I am left wondering just what the point of them is, other than to provide a "fun" element to a group of trainees or delegates or to "ice-break". Not that these are not valuable aims in themselves, but I would have preferred the brainteasers to have been a little more directed in their purposes by categorising them according to suitability for various sessions. For example, there are one or two that are ideal for sessions on time-management and these and other categorisations would really have helped sell the book to me. Having said that, if you do want to get your delegates or participants interacting, this is an idea resource