Great Session Openers, Closers, and Energizers: Quick Activities for Warming Up Your Audience an…

Openers: Certainty? Certainly!; Missing Letters; What Do You Expect?; Butterflies in the Buttermilk; Flubs & Dubs; I-Openers; I'm Not Confused.I'm Just Well-Mixed!; Initial Interrogations; Let Me Introduce Myself; Priority Partners; When You Ask a Stupid Question; Square: Won; The Choice is Yours; Life Lines; Matching Wits; Past, Present, Future; Calling Cards; Don't Have/Don't Want; The Dave Clark Five are Taking Over; Memories Are Made of This; Energizers: Tri-Dents; Forced Fits; Each One Teach One; And the Paraphase goes to...; And the Award goes to...; M Prompt: U; That's Debatable; Paint-the-Trainer; The Sixty-Second Interview; S-Teams; Delphian Deliberations; Clipping the Wings of Creativity; The Big 3; Panels--Wooden and Otherwise; The Dashing Young Plan on the Flying Trapeze; Snurfing USA; Self-Symbols, Stations of the Course; From Unknowing to Unknowingly.Closers: Stratified Summaries; Lights, Camera, Fractions; Sweet Seventeen; The Ring of Sports; Slo-Mo Sow, Grow; Bizarrely Commited; Worst Case Scenarios; Lessons Learned; Wiggle Giggles; Next Steps; Best-in-Class Outputs; Certifiable; Designer Gleans; Arti-chokes; The Letterman List; Intern Views; You's for You to Use; Sit-n-Spit; Education Equations; Prove it!; Commencement Seekers; The Point is...; Training Bras; Friendly Persuasion.

Marlene Caroselli (Rochester, NY) is a successful author and frequent contributor to leading business publications including Stephen Convey's Executive Excellence.