Essential Staff Training Activities

James Cain

Dr. Jim Cain is the author of seventeen texts filled with powerful team and community-building activities from around the world, including Teamwork & Teamplay (which won the Karl Rohnke Creativity Award presented by the Association for Experiential Education [AEE]), A Teachable Moment, Teambuilding Puzzles, The Book of Raccoon Circles (now available in Japanese and Chinese), Essential Staff  Training Activities, The Big Book of Low Cost Training Games, Find Something To Do, Rope Games, Teamwork & Teamplay Training Cards (now available in a Chinese/English version), The Teamwork & Teamplay International Edition (featuring fifty-one activities translated into sixteen different languages in the same book!), 100 Activities That Build Unity, Community & Connection, Team Activities That Promote Learning, More Team Activities That Promote Learning and Teambuilding with Index Cards.

His train-the-trainer workshops are legendary in the adventure-based learning world and have taken him to all fi fty states and thirty-two countries (so far). He is the innovator of over 100 teambuilding activities used by corporations, colleges, camps, conferences and communities. But mostly, Jim likes to share his unique collection of team challenges, games, puzzles, training techniques and community building activities with audiences of all kinds, all over the world. Jim is also the creative mind behind his active training company Teamwork & Teamplay, which provides staff  trainings, facilitation, teambuilding equipment, debriefing tools, curriculum development, reference books, conference workshops, keynote and playnote presentations, and teambuilding consulting services.

For more information or to invite Dr. Jim Cain to your next event, visit the Teamwork & Teamplay website at www.teamworkandteamplay.com or contact Jim Cain at (585) 637-0328.

David Knobbe

David Knobbe is the Executive Director of the C5 Youth Foundation of Austin, Texas. He has held leadership positions with youth development agencies including Wyman Center in St. Louis and the Camp Coca-Cola Foundation in Atlanta for the past 18 years. Dave loves the challenges of curriculum development and staff training but still misses the old days of leading caving, hiking and river trips.

Clare Marie Hannon

Clare Marie Hannon is the Senior Director for Outdoor Programs for the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, has served as the Director of Professional Development for the C5 Youth Foundation, and the Center Director and Youth Development Specialist for North Carolina State University's 4-H program. She is founder of TLC Training Resources and developed the Let's Lead youth leadership curriculum and serves as a program facilitator and trainer. She has facilitated organizational development and staff training for hundreds of organizations and Corporations on three continents.