Assessment Tools

“Parker and Kropp have done it again. This is another great resource of powerful and easy to use teaming exercises. This is a must for anyone facilitating team building sessions. Update your library today.”
Steven L. Phillips, Ph.D.
Co-author of the best-selling The Team Building Source Book and Team Training: From Start-Up to High Performance

“Team Workout: 50 Interactive Activities provides a wealth of team activities that are both engaging and insightful. Be sure to add it to your list of favorite resources.”
Lorraine L. Ukens, Teaming With Success;
author of All Together Now! and Energize Your Audience

Two of the world’s leading team building facilitators bring you their best icebreakers, assessments, games, and exercises in a user friendly format. Team Workout is for facilitators, team leaders, trainers, and managers who want all the necessary materials and a step-by-step protocol for fast and easy implementation of effective team development. It’s all here?the goals, time required, room set-up, materials, and detailed instructions to ensure a no-fault experience. There are even debriefing questions to facilitate the transfer of learning back to the workplace.

Selected Contents

• Customer Delight: A data collection tool
• E-Handles: A closer for a mature team
• Respect: A feedback tool
• Virtual Brainstorming: Problem solving for a geographically dispersed team
• Characteristics of an effective work team
• Creating a team mission
• Forming new teams
• Improving team meetings
• Virtual brainstorming: problem solving for a geographically dispersed team

Best-Seller By Lois B. Hart, Ed.D. (2003)

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For years, the popular 50 Activities for Developing Leaders, Volume I, has helped trainers effectively introduce and reinforce key skills in leadership training. Now the all-new, second volume reflects the best and latest thinking on leadership theory making it the best tool available for building leadership skills, attitudes and competencies.

Developed by two veteran leadership experts, the second edition offers 50 ready-made, proven activities organized into four modules that focus on:

• Laying the groundwork for a workshop that makes an impact
• Developing the individual leader
• Setting an example so others will want to be leaders, too
• Helping leaders excel and perform at their best

The activities help leaders:

• Build trust
• Be ethical
• Teach
• Coach
• Facilitate meetings
• Develop their careers
• Create balance
• Respond to change
• Handle conflict
• Be creative
• Self-promote

Includes: 3-Ring Binder, 300-pages, Written Exercises, Self-assessments, Closure Activities, Role Plays, And Group Exercises.

• 50 Activities for Developing Leaders Vol. II $159.99 [Add to Cart]

How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning

Bridget O’Connor, Michael Bronner, & Chester Delaney

As a workplace learning professional, what do you need to be able to do to keep up with a fast-changing industry and move ahead? You’ll find all the answers in a single source—Learning at Work, the third edition of Training for Organizations first published in 1996.
This valuable guide will help both newcomers and seasoned professionals fulfill their many roles and create rewarding careers in the dynamic field of workplace learning.

Special updates to this new edition include additional topics and new “Voices from the Field”—interviews with workplace learning professionals who offer their insights, experiences and perspectives.

Part 1 sets the stage for the book by describing the need for educational leadership in organizations, current and emerging roles for the learning professional and the instructional development cycle.

Part 2 emphasizes the need for careful needs assessment, the purposes of evaluation and collecting and analyzing needs assessment and evaluation data.

Part 3 reviews the best of what is known about learning from instructional design and delivery and theoretical perspectives for workplace learning to planning for instruction and enabling learning inside and outside the classroom.

In part 4, you’ll find techniques and ideas for supporting learning throughout your organization. Chapters are devoted to writing the training proposal, supporting change in the workplace, administering programs and maintaining your professional edge.

The Negotiating Skills SkillBuilder provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in this competency. The 12 page booklet takes the learner through 6 developmental steps: Determine, Assess, Build, Trade, Probe & Confirm. These steps are filled with behavioral tips designed to help anyone improve their ability to bargain, compromise, settle differences, sell, or come to a beneficial agreement.

Each packet contains 10 booklets

The Performance Measurement SkillBuilder provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in this competency. The 12 page booklet takes the learner through 6 developmental steps: Talk, Think, Gather Information, Trial, Track, & Fine Tune. These steps outline a process to re-think your business units performance measures and key accountabilities.

Each packet contains 10 booklets.

The Managing Poor Performance SkillBuilder provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in this competency. The 12 page booklet takes the learner through 6 developmental steps: Avoid, Recognize, Focus, Interview, Target, & Act. These steps outline a process to re-think your business units performance measures and key accountabilities.

Each packet contains 10 booklets.

The Process Improvement SkillBuilder provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in this competency. The 12 page booklet takes the learner through 6 developmental steps: Choose, Challenge, Collect, Compare, Consult & Change. These steps outline how managers can analyze and change any organizational process to improve it.

Each packet contains 10 booklets.