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Brefi Group has a variety of downloadable management games that are immediately accessible for use in workshops, training sessions and team building.
These include the well known and inexpensive Prisoners’ Dilemma trust game, several other low cost team building and creativity games, as well as a series of more sophisticated simulations, consensus building, planning and leadership [...]

Following our successful activities sessions with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) we now have three sets of the planks shelving game.
Planks is a challenging exercise which highlights the importance of planning, teamwork, working in sub-teams, effective communication and problem solving. It is also very effective for drawing out the characteristics of effective management and leadership.
The [...]

Rigger Game Pack – a team construction game
This game can be used to help teams understand skills, behaviours and techniques that work in a high pressure situation. It aids communication and learning about managing practical problems. It is particularly useful for drawing out the differences between managing a project and managing routine work.
Rigger [...]

The Red Stuff Handbook – what your accountant won’t tell you!
Why “Red Stuff?” Because You need to understand the mechanics of how it all works – tax, national insurance, expenses, VAT, whether to be a partnership, sole trader, limited company or one of the four other business structures you can use. It’s the lifeblood of [...]

Stefan Powell and I have been writing a proposal that includes training sales teams.
This is a good reminder to refer back to Sharon Drewn Morgen’s book: Buying Facilitation®: The New Way to Sell that Influences & Expands Decisions. I believe that this is one of the best texts on sales that is available.
If you [...]

The current economic crisis has highlighted a vacuum of mistrust that affects all business and will ensure the behaviour of Boards and their directors remain in the spotlight for some time to come. Richard Winfield, managing director at Brefi Group and head of the recently launched Director Development Centre looks at the importance of corporate [...]

With redundancies at an all time high jobs are not as safe as we would like them to be. What once seemed like a safe and secure career path suddenly appears more competitive than ever. With this in mind, Brefi Group has launched a new Director Development Centre.
The centre provides a variety of services for [...]

One of the best sources of new business is your existing contact list. People like to buy from people they know, particularly people they know and trust.
So, I am delighted to recommend a new video course that teaches you how to build an opt in mailing list from people you send emails to.
Paul [...]

I am grateful to Triumphant Events for finding this video, which shares
some of the critical moments that have shaped Steve Job’s life and,
indeed, billions of people worldwide.

HOT NEWS – NEW PRODUCTS

Management games
We have significantly increased the range of management games available on the Brefi Group web site. Management games can be used to achieve specific purposes or to fill a slot in a conference or workshop.
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Hollow Square
This game can be used to help teams understand the impact of communication between those who develop plans and those who have to implement them. It also highlights helpful and not so helpful behaviours when planning, assigning or completing tasks. Teams that regularly work on problem solving [...]

7 Ways to Figure out What You Want ™
This 23 page workbook is for those who would like to find out what they really want; or those who know what they really [...]

Stress is a major challenge in modern life and, often, we are not taught how to manage it. The Straightforward Guide to a Stress Free Life provides you with the tools and techniques to set yourself up for a stress free life and to manage the four different kinds of pressure that most people face [...]

Employee Development Pack
A collection of 12 forms that we have developed to provide a structure for employee development. It includes induction, job description, appraisal and training plan forms. Use them as provided or further develop them for your own purposes…

Price: £25.00

Prisoners’ Dilemma

The Prisoners’ Dilemma, or Red Blue Game, is a well known trust game which helps teams to understand about working together for a win-win outcome. It isolates the components of trust and demonstrates the concept of win-win to bring greater understanding of the processes involved in building, maintaining, losing and regaining trust. It also [...]

This game can be used to help teams understand the impact of communication between those who develop plans and those who have to implement them. It also highlights helpful and not so helpful behaviours when planning, assigning or completing tasks. Teams that regularly work on problem solving will find the game useful for alerting them [...]

Whenever I have to prepare a proposal or develop a programme for a new workshop, I start by checking our in-house resources. Recent searches have reminded me of the excellent products developed by Andrew Halfacre and I would like to remind you of what you can find on the resources section of our web site.

7 [...]

A Straightforward Guide to a Stress Free Life
Stress is probably one of the biggest challenges of modern life and, often, we are not taught how to manage it. “The Straightforward Guide to a Stress Free Life” provides you with the tools and techniques to set yourself up for a stress free life and to [...]