ACT Game Store listing of productshttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:24:06 PSTen Contents: 10 T Game Puzzle Parts, 1 Set each of Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Challenge Puzzles, 1 Set of Solutions, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: The T game is a set of 10 different rectangular shaped puzzle parts that must be assembled in different forms to match the puzzle solutions. Each puzzle part is 5 by 10 inches and has various Ts running in different directions. The solutions range from Beginner to Advanced and Challenge levels. Even the warm up for this innocuous simple perceptual short-circuit game will challenge the brightest participants. As players make constant assumptions about game play and face process breakdown, one by one, they learn to listen to and appreciate the power of team synergy. Learning outcomes: Problem solving, logic analysis, the power of making assumptions, team synergy, communication, leadership, strategic planning and fun. # of Players: 2 to 8 players per set Location: Indoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/the-t-puzzle-assumption-game-tpuzzle123-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348707/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:36:00 PST Contents: 1 Custom Game Board, 1 Standard game board, Custom spinner, Chips (in 4 colors), Playing Cards, Content Cards, and much more, as well as complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: The Make Your Own Game Game is an astoundingly creative game that will allow players to create their own custom games to teach any content, curriculum or competency. This Master Game will provide hours of practical fun as teams merge fun and content, skill and change with curriculums and competencies. The resulting game creations can actually be used immediately to improve the presentation of any curriculum. This game has almost an unlimited number of possibilities and can basically convert any concept into interactive, experiential learning. Learning outcomes: Improving the content of any curriculum, creative presentation skills, Practical lessons about nteractive, and experiential learning. # of Players: 2 to 8 players per set Location: Indoor Length: 45 - 120 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/make-your-own-game-game-myogg001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348758/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:37:00 PST Contents: Playing Board, 64 large foam chips (16 Blue, 16 Red, 16 Green, 16 Yellow) that are 5 by 10 by 10 inches in size, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: This 3 D Tic-Tac-Toe Project Management Strategy Board Game starts out with a very simple task of playing Tic-Tac-Toe in one dimension. By adding layer after layer upon the initial simple linear sequential game, the whole process becomes an increasingly complex matrix driven task that will stump even the highest level management and executives. Learning outcomes: Proactive thinking, strategic planning, managing complex tasks, communication, teamwork and leadership. # of Players: 3 to 8 players per set Location: Indoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/flipem-project-management-board-game-83615600104-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348760/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:35:00 PST Double chance Number Strategy game Contents: 92 Number Cards, 12 Wild Cards, Dice, Custom Carrying tray, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: In this game of double strategy, players are at the mercy of the dice and deal of the cards. While trying to achieve the simple task of arranging 10 number cards of any color in ascending order from 1 to 10, players must overcome and deal with the impingement of other teams while trying to maintain and execute their own objectives. Learning outcomes: Managing change, controlling multiple variables while planning strategically, adapting to chaos, balance of offense and defensive strategies, creative problem solving. # of Players: 2 to 8 players per set Location: Indoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/out-of-control-card-game-836156001024-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348761/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:27:00 PST Double chance Word Scrabble in a Box Game Contents: 92 Letter cards, 12 Wild cards, Dice, Custom Carrying tray, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: With the simple objective of making as many small words as possible, this word game requires just the right combination of strategy and luck. Whether taking words away from other players, or swapping hands against your will, a little planning goes a long way. Learning outcomes: Managing rapid and constant change, controlling multiple variables, balance of offense and defensive strategies, creatively looking for word solutions. # of Players: 2 to 8 players per set Location: Indoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/fast-word-card-game-83615600105-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348763/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:23:00 PST Contents: 10 Tantrix Tiles, and carrying case, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: In this game of logic, teams attempt to put tiles together to form certain predetermined patterns. As each round progresses, an additional tile is added. Although the first few puzzles are simple, the game becomes exponentially more difficult very quickly. The ability to see many possibilities and focused teamwork are necessary to finish first in this unique competition. Learning outcomes: Creative Problem solving, team synergy, assumption busting, communication and feedback, risk taking, planning and execution. # of Players: 2 to 8 players per set Location: Indoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/un-assigned/tantrix-logic-tile-game-tltg001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348764/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 28 Dec 2005 09:10:00 PST Contents: This hilarious, mind-numbing perceptual picture-word puzzle game will have your entire team rolling in non-stop laughter. Four sets of 24 Computer projected puzzles (People, Places, Clichés, and Entertainment) will pump up any team in just a matter of minutes. Picture words that seem too difficult to guess initially, will appear so easy and simple once you know the answer that you be completely shocked that you couldnt get it. This game of Multiple Intelligences will have everyone sitting on the edge of their chair. Learning outcomes: Use of multiple intelligences, creative problem solving, managing assumptions, building trust, application of various logic solutions, strategic planning, teamwork and communication. # of Players: 8 to 88 Location: Indoor Length: 10 to 60 minutes Picture + This is now available on single DVD with 96 image units. $49 each (Volume discounts available) Board game version only. (288 image 4 in. by 6 in.) $29 each http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/picture-this-lcd-projection-perceptual-game-836156001062-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348766/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:42:00 PST Contents: All materials necessary for complete game play, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: Trying to get your bearings is difficult if youre blindfolded and trying to walk through a giant maze with people yelling in your ears from every direction. Whats even more difficult: trying to guide your blindfold maze walkers through the maze from a distance while competing among many others sighted managers for their attention. Beware, just as you think your team is going to win, the other team may come up with a more creative solution and tip the odds in their favor. Learning outcomes: Trust building, assessing interdependency, major communication (two way, horizontal), teamwork and team synchronization, creative problem solving, leadership and strategic planning. # of Players: 8 to 40 players per set Location: Indoor/Outdoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/blindfold-matrix-maze-bmm001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348775/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:48:00 PST Contents: All materials necessary for complete game play, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: This rapid fire, fast paced game of passing multiple objects back and forth, up and down the line of team members starts out easy and gets complex very quickly. The sheer number of objects being passed becomes the teams greatest challenge. And watch out for the competition, if they drop the ball it could affect your teams performance. Learning outcomes: Handing off responsibilities, two way communication, multi-tasking, balancing between linear sequential and matrix task management, controlling multiple variables, and managing inter-team interactions. # of Players: 10 to 60 players per set Location: Indoor/Outdoor Length: 30 - 45 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/pass-the-ball-and-pass-the-buck-pbpb001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348778/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:45:00 PST Contents: All materials necessary for complete game play, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: Passing a beach ball from one player to the next seems relatively simple. No way! The entire team must pay the price and faces the consequences for any one persons misjudgment. This fast paced, ball passing, intensive team-oriented game gets the juices really flowing as team members try to beat the competition at all costs. Learning outcomes: Trust, shared leadership, big team - small team integration, communication, risk taking, process improvement in a competitive environment, and careful proactive planning. # of Players: 12 to 25 players per set Location: Indoor/Outdoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/what-g-s-around-comes-around-wgaca001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348781/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:50:00 PST Contents: One large Squawking Chicken and an assortment of 6 other talking animals, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. (Important note: Animals shown in picture represent entire line of animals. Only six animals will come with this game. Additional animals may be purchased separately.) Description: The chaos that consumes every player is inescapable until all teams synchronize and work in unity. Process breakdown is inevitable but as teams use their creativity, any problem can be overcome, even the presence of loud squawking chickens and other zany animals. A hysterical game that drives home strategic planning in is simplest form. Learning outcomes: Team synchronization, big team - small team integration, significant strategic planning, communication, creative problem solving and complete coordination. # of Players: 12 to 56 players per set Location: Indoor/Outdoor Length: 45 - 60 minutes * Must be played around series of tables http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/pass-the-chicken-pc00001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348784/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:44:00 PST Contents: Includes giant 10 ft by 10 ft. game mat, weights, 64 giant foam game pieces (16 each Blue, Green, Red, Yellow), Four small versions of the game, and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines Description: This power packed, high energy Giant Strategic Systems thinking Management Board Game starts out with a very simple task of playing supercharged Tic-Tac-Toe in three dimensions. The catch is that every team only has certain powers by which to achieve victory. By practicing and strategizing ahead of time on their own mini game board, and by adapting to constant change over the course of 3 gut wrenching rounds, each team will gain awareness of new innovative and creative problem solving skills. As each team gains more and more insight into how to use all their management powers, each team will learn to apply them to attain maximum strategic leverage. The many unexpected twists and turns that show up out of nowhere combined with the increasing complexity of this matrix driven game, allows each team to grow in awareness and mastery of their management skills. All is not as it appears in this rapid fire constantly changing game that simulates the real world of executive management and decision making (often made without all the necessary information). Just when you think you are going to win, watch out, anything can happen. Learning outcomes: Proactive thinking and multi-tiered strategic planning, managing complex tasks and rapidly changing objectives, highly interactive communication, systems thinking, the art of process management (flowing between task and process), managing your gut reactions, forming temporary alliances, and synchronized teamwork # of Players: 4 to 12 players per set Location: Indoor/Outdoor Length: 60 to 120 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/giant-flip-em-project-mgmt-board-game-10-by-10-ft-version-fpmbg0002-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348788/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:59:00 PST Contents: Includes heavy duty vinyl Giant 10 ft by 10 ft. Checkerboard, 24 Armbands (12 Blue and 12 Red), dice and bucket, whistle, stop watch and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. *Small Sand bags with clips available $15 each *With Smocks -Add $15 per smock per person Description: In order to demonstrate the power of strategic alignment, teams will play the same game in both a competitive and a collaborative version. With the purely competitive goal of wiping out the other team though a high energy modified triple threat version of traditional checker moves, this game adds a very tricky twist: the fact that each team can take multiple offensive and defensive moves on the same turn. In perhaps the most rapidly changing systems based game of all, no one ever knows what to expect on the next move because the entire board changes every time. The only way to survive and win is to control your reactions and make spur of the minute decisions that create strategically relevant results. By changing between competitive and collaborative modes depending on the situation at hand, your team can take charge through the power of strategic alignment. Learning outcomes: Integrated leadership, constant risk taking, fast paced decision making, rapid fire quick proactive thinking, unified team effort, systems thinking, and global cooperation # of Players: 16 to 24 players per set Location: Indoor/Outdoor Length: 45 - 120 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/three-way-human-checkers-board-vinyl-10-ft-square-with-grommets-twhcb002-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348791/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:58:00 PST Contents: 180 Negotiation Pieces, All materials needed to carry out the game plus complete Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: The basic goal of this negotiations game is to trade as many of your game pieces as possible such that your team has the most matching game pieces and sets as possible at the end of the game. Now it has been said that money is the root of all evil but perhaps how one negotiates may run a close second place. This game has many unexpected twists that play out in rapid fire succession regardless of the best planning and proactive thinking. Learning outcomes: Observation of Market forces, Strategic Planning, Proactive thinking, Change Management, Process Improvement, Team effort, Communication and Negotiations. # of Players: 12 to 40 players Location: Indoor Length: 45 minutes http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/the-high-pressure-negotiations-game-hpng0001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348794/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 16 Jan 2008 09:26:00 PST Contents: Comes with complete instructions for 2 to 3 rounds, 8 job descriptions, 1 Internal Auditing Accounting Sheet, 1 Team Tally Score Sheet, and Name tags for all participants as well as extensive Train the Trainer Guidelines. (You provide your own materials including staplers, paper, paper clips, rulers, markers, and tape). Description: This Lean management and manufacturing simulation gives a powerful learning tool to understand Lean Principles, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints. Starting out with chaotic conditions, the skilled participant will, through team effort, gain control over a variety of variables and identify the major constraintst that prevent the management and manufacturing processes from flowing. The goal of the game is simply to produce as many quality sets of As and Xs that meet the proper specifications set by the executive team within the time limit. But just as in any real manufacturing setting, there are limits based on people, materials and the coordination of both. Give `em the AX is a powerful simulation that brings out many of the issues that already exist in the workplace. Learning outcomes: Lean Principles, Theory of Contraints, Teamwork, Coordination of efforts between teams, organizational communication, following instructions, strategic planning and leadership. # of Players: 8 to 40 players Location: Indoor Length: 60 to 90 minutes Downloadable Version $49.95 To order the Downloadable version of the Give em the AX Lean Management Simulation, call the office directly at 610-630-3325. Due to technical problems, ACT cannot upload your order through the store. Your order can be processed immediately if staff are available. http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/downloadable-games/give-em-pe-ax-lean-management-simulation-gams001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348797/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:43:00 PST Contents: 23 Custom Graphics and complete Instructions with Train the Trainer Guidelines. Description: In this game, participants will have the chance to practice both One Way and Two Way communication as they try to replicate specific custom created graphics. Custom designed graphics prepared by a team of psychologists range from beginner to intermediate and all the way up to challenge level. This game tackles all the issues of verbal and non-verbal communication and ties it in nicely with the limitations of one way discussions and the power of two way communications. A basic primer for every organization. Learning outcomes: Listening skills, hearing and interpreting, coding, decoding and interpretation, use of verbal and non-verbal signals and cues, awareness of communication style. # of Players: 4 to 40 players Location: Indoors Length: 20 to 40 minutes Downloadable Version $29.95 To order the Downloadable version of the Two Way Communication Game, call the office directly at 610-630-3325. Due to technical problems, ACT cannot upload your order through the store. Your order can be processed immediately if staff are available. http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/downloadable-games/the-two-way-communication-custom-drawing-game-twcdg001-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/348800/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:31:00 PST Contents: Learn-o-grams , a 280 page book, and a full color CD with 96 Learn-o-grams Descriptions: Learn-o-grams presents a wealth of energizing and entertaining puzzles designed for training sessions that are a combination of words, letters, and pictures that represent a most complex word or phrase. To solve these puzzles participants must think outside the box, stretch their imaginations, and use both the left and right sides of the brain. Learn-o-grams game book is unique and adds a dash of excitement to training sessions, meeting openers, energizers, breaks, topical transitions and closers. These fun-filled puzzles are also ideal for teaching skills such as communication, leadership and risk taking, teamwork and group synergy, strategic planning and execution, process improvement and accelerated learning as well as systems thinking. Learn-o-grams are challenging, research-based and proven to enhance learning, appropriate for all generations and age ranges, and designed to be humorously entertaining. Learning Outcomes: All the puzzles in Learn-o-grams Combine fun with learning Offer an experiential Learning tool to help participants solve problems Explore how to think differently and test assumptions Show how to see day-to-day events more clearly # of Players: 5 to 150 participants Length of game play: 10 to 30 minutes, thousands of combinationshttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/learn-o-grams-lograms-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/1434570/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:41:00 PST Contents: One 25 ft. heavy duty vinyl Chinese Checker game board, 36 bandanas in 6 colors (B,G, R, O, Y, P), one complete instruction manual, one whistle, one stop watch, 1 set of 12 tent pegs, duct tape Optional: Cobbler Style Smocks are available for $15 per smocks in an assortment of colors Description: Each team must occupy one triangle of the 25 ft. Chinese Checker Board. While following the rules of the game, each team must move as many of their players from their Home base to the opposite triangle, End base, within the time limit. Facing and overcoming the congestion and confusion in the gray area will be necessary in order to succeed and often simulates real working situations. Ultimately, the only way to win is by using your teams resources. Learning outcomes: Planning strategically and execute flawlessly as a Big Team in order to achieve your objectives in a timely manner, managing communications in the face of adversity, applying and gaining mastery of the principles of Six Sigma Theory of Constraints through game play, learning to manage systems induced change over which you have little or no control, leadership, and strategic planning. Number of Players: 16 to 36 per game board, multiple game boards may be used simultaneouslyLength: 45 to 90 minutes + debriefhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/teambuilding-games/chinese-checkers-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/1462507/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:52:00 PST Using only the miscellaneous junk available to them, teams compete to create the most innovative table-top sporting event for an international competition. After an initial round of planning, teams are challenged to practice innovation on their initial game designs and subsequent process improvements. Things get really interesting when teams have fun playing each others games. Following game play, additional learning takes place as teams give honest feedback on each of the game designs, perform a gap analysis, and how well they met the stated objectives and goals. Included a 63 page debriefing and instructions manual. Each Complete Game includes materials to train up to 3 teams of 4-8 participants. All parts are reusable. For training sessions with more than 3 groups, order one extra game pack per team for $45 each. http://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/items/classroom-games/Junkyardgames-detail.htmhttp://corporateteambuilding.easystorecreator.com/browse_item_details.asp/Item_Id/4566233/categ_id/3831Teambuilding GamesWed, 3 Feb 2010 12:54:00 PST