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"If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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~Mother Theresa
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The Spokesperson E-Newsletter
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New Podcast!
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Hello facilitator friends!
ANNOUNCEMENT! I have SUCH a fun
announcement
to make.... My good friend and colleague Chris Cavert and I have been working behind the scenes the last few months on a new PODCAST! We've used this odd time in history with social distancing to meet on Zoom and record multiple episodes of a new weekly podcast we're calling,
Ask Michelle & Chris About Team Building
. This weekly podcast will field questions from team builders all over the world. Between the two of us, we have over 50 years of combined team building and training experience and have written over 20 publications. We both have traveled the world to help team builders get better at what they do best - lead powerful team building programs. I'm so excited! Our first
three Episodes are ready and waiting for you! (and eight more in editing mode!) We're live on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify & Stitcher. You can listen to, download and access the show notes to all available episodes
at this link.
You can also find and subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast player - just search, 'Ask Michelle & Chris'. And, please Rate and Review the podcast if you are using the Apple Podcasts player. Help us become the first result when people search for 'team building' podcasts. Thank you so much!
WHAT'S NEXT? I'm working on LOTS of things behind the scenes. As some states have started 're-opening,' it's caused quite the buzz around how we safely conduct programs once we get to start playing in the same room together again. I have several Sessions scheduled in June for you to register for:
- Post-Covid19 World: Best Practices for Health, Hygiene and Physical-Distancing. Monday, June 1, 4:00pm USA MST / June 2, 8:00am Australia AEST
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- I've been invited by Mark Collard of Playmeo to be a guest-panelist on a Live 60-minute Webinar conversation and discover what we know (so far) about implementing an effective response to COVID-19 in your school, workplace and outdoor program. Four highly-experienced panelists - all of whom are navigating this brave new world, too - will share their current understanding of 'best practice' and discuss its practical application to one or more specific activities. Expect to walk away with a clearer understanding of what your in-person programs could look like next week, next month and next year, and seek answers to some of your most challenging concerns and questions, too. Register here! Free, no cost.
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Team Building from Six Feet Apart: Activities and Ideas for In-Person team building with physical-distancing considerations.
Thursday, June 11,
3:00pm MST / 5:00pm ET
Register here! Free, no cost.
- I'm already working on the handout! Just like my first several Virtual Team Building Activities Sessions, this webinar will be jam-packed with lots of ideas for activities we can facilitate with in-person events keeping participants at least six-feet apart.
3. Facilitator Scavenger Hunt - Round 2!
Thursday, June 4,
3:00pm MST / 5:00pm ET
Register here! Registration: $20
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We had A BLAST at last week's first-ever Facilitator Scavenger Hunt. We had so much fun I HAVE to host another one. I'm going to build out a completely new hunt, so if you attended the last one and want more ideas for building out your own, join me again!
For $20 you will get access to the recording of the event, the Onboarding PPT slide deck and a copy of the 'back side' of the Scavenger Hunt so you can replicate your own.
Here's a fun Testimonial from one of the Scavenger Hunt attendees from last week: "Michelle at Training Wheels has been incredibly collaborative and generous with her creative solutions for navigating the virtual team building environment. Within a few days of almost every organization telling its employees to work from home, Michelle had re-imagined and shared with the entire experiential learning industry how to design and facilitate impactful virtual team building programs. She's provided amazing e-books and live training sessions on the topic for free, and more recently took over 200 participants through a live virtual scavenger hunt and then taught them how to create their own. The experience was so fun that my colleagues and I can't wait to start building our own. It was a highly engaging way to connect with others in the industry, and I imagine the impact on teams working together would be even more significant. I'm always looking forward to seeing what Training Wheels will come out with next!" ~ Steve Hinkel, Intuit
Thanks Steve!
HANDOUT ALERT! If you are new to this newsletter and want to watch the recordings from the past three Zoom sessions on Virtual Team Building Games, you can find them on our
YouTube Channel. Feel free to hit the 'subscribe' button so you get a notification whenever we upload a new video! Here is a link to the
free downloadable handouts that accompany the workshops, including the most recent session on
Virtual Team Building Activities - Part 3. Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested.
Best wishes to you and your loved ones to be healthy, safe and to be virtually connected.
Michelle
Michelle Cummings
Owner/Trainer/Big Wheel
Training Wheels
Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer
Personify Leadership
www.PersonifyLeadership.com
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| Wheel of a Deal: On Sale this Week... |
We're a little geeked out about our new Gutter Ball sticks! We found a manufacturer to make high quality, colored U-shaped Tubes that are 15" long that are PERFECT for Gutter Ball.
Each participant gets one gutter. The object is to move the marble/ball from point A to point B without dropping the marble. Generally, as the facilitator you can make the pathway to point B as easy or as difficult as you like, depending how well your group works together. You can take them over obstacles, down stairs, around trees, etc. Get as creative as you like.
A variety of 30 colored 15" gutters, small bucket, marbles, directions, and stuff sack included.
Here is a testimonial from one of our customers:
"We are teaching the Franklin Covey 7 Habits for Highly Successful Teens curriculum. One of the habits is Synergy, which teaches the power of a group of two or more people working well together. I have had a blast facilitating the 'Gutter Ball' activity. There is no better way to teach kids how important it is to work together as a team. By the end of the workshop and after a few practice runs, the students are fluid in their 'choreography' to move the little ball across the room and over obstacles to the 'magic' cup. At the close of the activity, we have some pretty insightful thoughts on how and why their team was successful."
~Kimberly Coon-Domacilio, Program Coordinator for ETS College Bound / TRIO at Salt Lake Community College
Regular: $94.99 On Sale: $79.99
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Delivering fun activities that promote positive behaviors, the activities in this book were designed to promote conversations and questions about keeping our cup filled with knowledge and awareness. These teambuilding activities simply use the famous red plastic cup, normally used at parties, to help promote trust, commitment, collaboration, accountability and communication. This book helps a leader, trainer, teacher or facilitator to add more activities into their tool belt to help guide teams to higher success. The book will guide you in how to run and facilitate the activities. Each activity comes with suggested questions to help you bring deeper and meaningful conversations when facilitating. Also included are variations that you can change to activity to bring different results. We hope that you will continue to be inspired by the Red Plastic Cup. Not only for parties and play but also to encourage, to teach and to help others grow and learn for themselves.
Regular: $19.99 On Sale: $16.99
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Portable Team Building Activities
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Games, Initiatives, and Team Challenges for Any Space
By Chris Cavert and Friends
An evocative list-FUN, choice of challenge, discussion, compassion, self-efficacy, respect, acceptance, integrity, discovery, teamwork-all integral parts of experiential/adventure education. Did you notice the bold first word in this magic list? Fortunately, Chris Cavert, is a dedicated FUN magnet, and your welcoming guide to active participation (from the Foreword by Karl Rohnke).
This book is filled with a variety of teambuilding activities with a range of challenge levels.These activities can be used with middle and high school students, college students, and adult groups of all ages and backgrounds. Most of the challenges require easy-to-find props and equipment, others require some extra effort before you play. All the activities can be resources to add to powerful and positive pro-social development programs.
Regularly $34.99
On Sale: $29.99
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Experiential Facilitation 101 Class
Our Experiential Facilitation 101 training is an introductory class for the team building facilitator. This three-day training provides an important first step in building the foundational skills necessary to lead experiential programs.
Date: July 7-9, 2020
Date: October 6-8, 2020
Date: December 15-17, 2020
Location: Hampton Inn, Littleton, CO
Time: 9:00am-4:30pm, Breakfast & Lunch included!
Price: Regularly $975
Includes instruction manual and $50 credit towards Training Wheels gear.
Certification in this class: $3500, July 7-10, October 6-9 and December 15-18.
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Where In the World is Michelle?
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Upcoming Conferences and Workshops where Michelle is presenting:
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Want to participate in one of Michelle's workshops? Is she near you? Piggy back a training for your organization when she is traveling near you. Here's a link to our event calendar as well.
All In-Person Programs Cancelled or Postponed through the first of July.
May 27,
Virtual
Client Program, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
May 28, Virtual Scavenger Hunt for a client
June 2,
Virtual
Client Program
June 4, Virtual Scavenger Hunt for a client
June 11, Virtual Scavenger Hunt for a client
June 23,
Virtual
Keynote for a Youth Event
July 22, Virtual Keynote for a Youth Event
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