Assessment Tools

Do you want to be a better communicator? You're not alone if you've ever had a tough time getting through to someone.

Do you want to be a better communicator? You're not alone if you've ever had a tough time getting through to someone. One of the biggest problems in business today is getting along with and communicating with others. And it's one of the top reasons why most people are limited in their relationships and limited in their ability to communicate well on or off the job.

Scientific research shows that people communicate, think, and behave differently. But, when large numbers of people were analyzed research has shown that they generally fall into four categories called behavior or communication styles:

• Supportives
• Emotives
• Reflectives
• Directives

In Part One of this three-part video program you'll learn about these four behavior styles and what's included in them. Part Two teaches you how to identify these styles in others.

Part Three talks about how to change your behavior to better communicate with others - what is called being FLEX-able - able to flex out of your style and into the other person's style.

Do you remember the golden rule? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The golden rule would be great if we were all the same style. But because people are different they want and need to be treated differently.

This program teaches you to become FLEX-able and introduces you to The Platinum Rule - "Do unto others as THEY want to be done unto."

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You’ve taken the first step toward understanding your employees feelings about your organization by letting BLR survey your workforce and issue our basic employee attitudes report**.

Now take the ultimate step ... order the National Employee Attitude Survey Premium Report.

For while the basic report reveals employee feelings in broad strokes, the Premium version lets you drill down in detail…to find the small groups in various locations around your company that really drive those overall results.

What does the Premium Report do that the basic doesn’t? It enables you to see into every cranny of every department, job function, or employee group response to every question on the survey. And it also includes the full survey data in Excel format, so you can manipulate the data and changing the parameters in whatever way meets your specific need, the same way surveys costing tens of thousands of dollars do.

In other words, no matter how senior management frames its questions on communication, teamwork, supervision, or career development, the Premium Report gives you the tool to say, “I’ve got the answer.”

Look at all the extra features the Premium Report gives you!

• National Employment Attitude Survey Premium Report $495.00 [Add to Cart]

This title is divided into five sections. Each section has ten exercises designed to stimulate discussion and promote inquiry regarding business ethics. The activities focus on Leadership, Corporate Citizenship, Salesmanship, Management, and Teamwork. Contributing to this collection is a range of trainers from a wide variety of disciplines and locations, including Europe, India, Canada, and a broad cross-section of the United States.

Training Objectives

• Increase ethics awareness among managers, teams and sales personnel
• Help develop values and guidelines
• Provide training activities to support organizational ethics policies
• Provide activities for practice in ethical decision-making

Training Methods

• Icebreakers
• Assessments
• Role plays
• Games

Time Guidelines: 50 activities vary in length from 15 minutes to 60 minutes.

• 50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization $149.99 [Add to Cart]

This collection introduces the issue of conflict and its resolution as a part of workshops on management, leadership, communication, negotiation and diversity.

Part One includes 25 interactive group learning activities to explore conflict and provide practice in skills that help to resolve it. Part Two consists of 25 individualized exercises and assessments that are ideal for pre-work prior to group training sessions, or they can be distributed to participants for their own self-development.

Includes: 300 Page Activity Manual

• 50 Activities for Conflict Resolution $149.99 [Add to Cart]

This versatile team development tool consists of a series of games for developing team effectiveness. The playing cards represent behavioral characteristics of effective teams and are designed to stimulate thinking and discussion.

The cards are divided into four sections of thirteen cards each. Each section covers an essential area of team development and is indicated on each card by an icon in the upper right-hand corner. The four areas of team development are: unity, communication, support, and performance.

Card Games for Developing Teams includes discussion games, card sorting and assessment games, acting and artistic games, as well as games involving the implementation of behaviors for team effectiveness. A learning objective is given for each game and activity along with a short summary and the approximate time needed. The simplest and most effective way to use the cards is for group discussion games and activities.

• Card Games for Developing Teams $149.99 [Add to Cart]

“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
  

• Team Workout $149.99

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 $149.99 [Add to Cart]

The Complete Guide to Wellness is the culmination of over 20 years of applied research in over 100 companies. The materials in this book were first tested in hospital settings under physician supervision and were later implemented in companies with leading behavioral psychologists and organizational change experts. The training modules contained in this book have been used successfully by hundreds of thousands of employees in companies such as AT&T, Southwestern Bell, and Ford Motor Company. The results from these interventions have been published in numerous journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association. This book incorporates recent findings from behavioral medicine, cultural medicine, organizational behavior, and medical research.

The Complete Guide to Wellness includes all the reproducible materials you need to run either a self-study or group program on any of the topics covered. The Lifestyles Possibilities Assessment is a full-screen assessment that correlates to the workshop, so you know which topic is the most important to start with.