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The Time Management Effectiveness Profile assesses an individual's existing capacity to manage his or her time efficiently and highlights specific areas where improvement might be possible. Overview This 84 item behavioral assessment collects self ratings on time management competencies that include predisposition/temperament, preparation, organizational ability, stress management, delegation, managing interruptions and results-orientation.
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This manual contains four sets of job simulation exercises, each comprising a number of activities that can be run in sequence or as stand-alone sessions. The simulations can be used for assessment centers or for training. For assessment purposes, there are two optional competence frameworks: managerial and professional. Each activity works as follows: 1) Participants are required to analyze information about the situation and prepare to support a specific, allocated project at a meeting; 2) Then, working as teams, the participants share information, choose one of the projects, and select project team members; 3) The teams are given more information so they can prepare a project plan, including a cash flow forecast; 4) Finally, each team is expected to manage the project remotely, dealing with various problems that arise as the simulation unfolds. The simulations are “coded” for certain types: 1) Recommendation—Meetings where participants have conflicting aims 2) Contingency—Activities where interruptions must be handled 3) Planning—Activities where participants must prepare plans 4) Combined—Recommendations, Planning, and Contingency activities being run in sequence
 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:
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." Program Highlights:
Program includes: 22-minute DVD, Comprehensive Leader's Guide, and 10-pack of Participant Guides
 Philip R. Harris, Ph. D. The twenty assessments in this collection are divided into four sections. The first , Personal Assessment, contains seven instruments to help individuals learn about themselves in order to more effectively acquire new competencies and meet the challenge of change. The second, Team Assessment, contains four complimentary instruments to help both team leaders and team members understand the dynamics of the group process. The third section, Management Assessment, provides five instruments which may be used by individual managers for self-assessment of their managerial role and effectiveness. The final section, Organizational Assessment, includes four instruments which can be used by HRD specialists or top management to evaluate a company's climate, clarify one's position in the system, and improve meeting management. This collection of reproducible assessment instruments will:
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 This is the CD/Online version of MAP. The Managerial Assessment of Proficiency (MAP) is the premier assessment of managerial competence in the marketplace.
 Every organization is full of creative, talented people. And you don’t have to be a DaVinci to unleash their creative spirit and add value to your bottom line. With The Creative Profile, you have a proven tool that will make it easy. This 36-statement profile acts like an X-ray to provide an in-depth snapshot of the creative capacity of your organization. Administer it to your employees and it will produce data that will reveal your creative strengths and weaknesses and pinpoint where you to focus your attention and resources. There is no better way to add discipline to your efforts so you know what to do, how to do it and – most importantly – why. The statements relate to the core elements that enable an organization to tap and utilize the creative talent of its people:
The profile package includes instructions on how to administer the survey, what to do with survey data, how to create and facilitate a meeting where participants think together about organizational issues and lessons learned about organizational creativity. Imagine an organization where different departments meet with each other to share ideas and give feedback … normally quiet employees speak up in meetings and participate … there is less sarcasm, fewer put-downs and more constructive criticism … individuals don’t take credit for good ideas … senior leaders are more accessible and employees want to interact with them … and good ideas are not just captured, but implemented 52 Pages
 Toward Human Emergence is a helpful and positive analysis from a behavioral science viewpoint of various stages in our long journey from hunter-gathers and agriculturalists, to industrialists and knowledge workers. It examines the why, what, and how for perfecting human endeavor within a global society characterized by accelerating changes and pressures that challenge us, such as climate change, population explosion, increasing urbanization, technological advances, knowledge expansion, and economic turmoil. This mind-stimulating volume offers a hopeful vision of humanity, so HRD practitioners and educators may inspire learners to utilize today's opportunities for improving the human condition and quality of all life. Toward Human Emergence will motivate those who seek to be world shapers, rather than mere squatters. Within the framework of human evolution, it offers planners and doers thoughtful insights on how to capitalize on human assets, while curbing our tendencies toward destruction, violence, and self-abuse. The text's major themes are coping with accelerating change, making knowledgeable choices and decisions, and influencing the future through self-knowledge and self-control. The last of its twelve chapters discusses the convergence of these key concepts of culture, change, choice, and control. The prologue considers humanity's prospects for emergence, while the epilogue projects the offworld possibilities for our further emergence as a species. This volume provides people in transition with ways to positively influence our collective future.
 The HRD Press DISCStyles assessment has been crafted specifically to assist organizations in understanding how behaviors impact the success of their employees—and how it all links to the bottom line. Based on theories originally developed by Dr. William Marston in the late 1920’s, and adapted for effortless facilitation and corporate buy-in, our DISCStyles assessments is a highly validated tool trusted by several Fortune 500 companies, the United States Military, and professional consultants worldwide. This easily administered 30-item assessment includes use of three interpersonal settings to maximize contextual authenticity (work, home, social). Each of the three standard interpretive graphs are plotted enabling a complete view of your preferred style, and since the DISCStyles assessment can be completed in only 10–15 minutes you gain valuable time for individual coaching sessions or group discussions. Product Benefits:
 Here’s a great way for your leaders to gather feedback from sources all around them and learn to work better with their supervisor, peers, and direct reports. 360-degree feedback using SLTI provides the leader and the direct report with a powerful platform to review their supervisor/direct report relationship. How and why the leader has used a specific approach or strategy can be examined, as well as the direct reports perception of the approach or strategy being used. Few techniques have greater potential to initiate positive behavior change than 360-degree feedback with SLTI. Following discussion of the leader¹s feedback, there is a natural segue into clarifying roles and responsibilities, as well as a review of performance.
 By Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Kilmann The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the number-one best-selling instrument for conflict resolution. This easy-to-use, self-scoring exercise is fast and powerful. Participants select responses from 30 statement pairs to discover which of five conflict handling styles is their preferred "mode". Interpretation and feedback materials help clients learn about the most appropriate uses for each mode and how to increase their comfort level with their less-used modes. Its simple-to-use format and easy-to-understand content have made it the centerpiece of training programs over a wide variety of applications. This Self-Assessment:
 The Networking & Relationship Building Profile Leader's Guide provide a detailed process for assessing an individual's existing capacity to network with others and highlights areas where improvements might be possible. More About the Diagnostic Assessments When individuals or organizations face significant situations or challenges, one of the first priorities is to understand the issues involved and to work out what needs to be done. In many cases, we do not need any formal assistance to help this process and can think our way through the steps that seem to be most appropriate. However, on occasion the issues or the problems may not be entirely clear and a structured approach can help considerably. This suite of simple and easy-to-use but comprehensive diagnostic assessment profiles help people to understand their skills or the situations they face more effectively. The diagnostic assessments fall into three categories:
All of these assessments are described in detail on the subsequent pages. In most cases, assessments have comprehensive facilitator guides to explain the underlying structure of the profile and to help facilitators to provide structured feedback. Person and organization assessments also have detailed coaching guides which provide practical �how to� tips on each question in the relevant profile.
 This Facilitators Guide enables a trainer to lead a half-day workshop administering, scoring, and interpreting, the Coaching Effectiveness Profile. Includes templates for development planning and 84 sets of coaching tips. Section 1 of the Facilitator’s Guide provides an introduction to coaching that can be used as a lecture primer in conjunction with a group exercise to introduce the topic. There are timing guidelines for the workshop and instructions on administering the assessment. The next 7 parts are short primers on each coaching competency covering a more detailed definition of the competency including a process model of the skill. There are experiential exercises with facilitator notes and handout copy masters wherever appropriate. Section 2 of the Facilitators Guide includes 84 sets of coaching tips, (12 per competency), designed to direct development for low scorers of each individual item (behavior) on the questionnaire. Each set of coaching tips expands the context of the behavior and provides several alternative best practices that can be used on-the-job to develop a specific skill.
There is a Personal Action Plan template and a Contract for Change that participants also get in either their assessment booklet or online report of results.
 Other than the evaluation sheets that participants turn in at the end of a training session, most instructors get very little feedback on how they are doing and where they can improve. But, their growth and development depend on more than the reactions of their learners. Professional expertise and established standards for classroom performance should be applied. That's why TAP was created. It measures an instructor's relative strengths on key skills, generating a Proficiency Profile that pinpoints developmental needs and defines the competencies critical to the effective delivery of training. TAP is a three-hour video-based program for instructors and course designers to assess 12 key instructional skills, identify needs and opportunities, and form Individual Development Plans. The 12 Competencies
The Complete TAP Package includes: One Facilitator's Guide with:
 Excel is a collection of 12 half-day off-the-shelf workshops, each dedicated to the development of a single critical competency. Each workshop is detailed below. These 12 competencies group in four distinct clusters: Review all workshop training topics Development of the MAP/Excel Competency Model INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD
 In just 20 minutes participants can complete the INSIGHT Inventory and begin bridging communication gaps that are costing your company a fortune. Key Benefits
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Description INSIGHT Inventory has a fast paced approach in an uncomplicated format which can make it the centerpiece of a training program or easy to integrate into an existing curriculum. Easy to use, participants will see results quickly. INSIGHT moves quickly from developing a profile to applying the learning. INSIGHT allows participants to develop a profile and apply what they have learned. Consultants and trainers alike appreciate the INSIGHT Inventory's ease of use and skill building designed to produce results in a quality psychometric instrument. INSIGHT can be used for:
 The AMA DISC Survey is designed and intended to be used for individual, group, and organizational development. The survey is equally suitable for managers, work group or team members, and individual contributors. The personal styles measured by the survey are relevant to programs focusing on personal development, problem solving and decision making, time management, interpersonal relations, conflict management, team building, and organizational change. The AMA DISC Survey has several unique features that provide distinct advantages over alternative personal style assessments. These include:
The AMA DISC Survey comes with a Debriefing Guide that includes seven modules, each of which take approximately 5 to 10 minutes to complete. The Debriefing Guide provides facilitators and respondents with a variety of options for understanding and applying The AMA DISC Survey:
The AMA DISC Survey takes approximately 30 to 40 minutes to administer, score, and debrief. The AMA DISC Survey can be used as an introduction to personal styles, or it can be used as the basis for a half-day session on personal, interpersonal, team, or organizational development. Appendix B presents a number of suggested program designs for using The AMA DISC Survey to accomplish different objectives. A set of transparency masters is contained in Appendix C.
 The newest addition to the best-selling Insight Inventory product line is Teaming Up with Insight. Using all of the tried and trusted knowledge gained by using the Insight Inventory, this team focused product is dedicated to evaluating and improving vital group communication. The 16-page booklet contains a scoring sheet and grid as well as full breakdown of trait preferences and appropriate "flex" points, allowing for quick administration and comprehension of scoring outputs. Teaming Up with Insight will help to track and evaluate interpersonal communication through each stage of team development with positive effects on your group's core structure, conflict management, time management, goal setting, and overall efficiency. Sections in Teaming Up with Insight Include:
Session Builders Series 100 covers over 20 of the most important management and supervisory skills, from active listening to time management.With more than 200 exercise options and variations you will always have a choice of realistic, easy-to-use designs that will add “something extra” to your training programs. Each Session Builder exercise is short, simple to run and debrief. The exercises are provided in a completely detailed manner, so that there are no surprises for the end-user at any point in the training process. You can use Session Builders to: • Build skills • Illustrate concepts • Stimulate discussion • Promote on-the-job application • Reinforce learning • Create a supportive learning climate Session Builders exercises are flexible, as well: you can use them to help design your own management/supervisory training or as a supplement to your existing program.
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12 Reproducible Instruments for Trainers In this era of rapid change in training methodologies, one of the most powerful tools available to trainers is a vast range of instrumentation focusing on either the individual, team, or organization. The Complete Management Skills Assessment Kit has a special emphasis on the different styles of adult learning. Trainers will become familiar with adult learning theories which will aid them in understanding how each individual prefers to learn. It has become increasingly clear that each employee needs to contribute positively to their own workplace development. This series of management assessments provides trainers with user-friendly materials which can be used in a variety of settings. Also, The Complete Management Skills Assessment Kit is fully reproducible saving trainers time and money. Contents
 This 84 item, online assessment provides an objective process for a sales person and their supervisor to identify the salespersons weaknesses in order to improve the skills and competencies they need to be successful. The detailed individual feedback report displays both the salespersons and their supervisors ratings of 7 competencies.
 This Facilitators Guide enables a trainer to lead a half-day workshop administering, scoring, and interpreting the Sales Effectiveness Profile. Includes templates for development planning and 84 sets of coaching tips. Section 1 of the Facilitator’s Guide provides an introduction to sales effectiveness that can be used as a lecture primer in conjunction with a group exercise to introduce the topic. There are timing guidelines for the workshop and instructions on administering the assessment. The next 7 parts are short primers on each sales effectiveness competency covering a more detailed definition of the competency including a process model of the skill. There are experiential exercises with facilitator notes and handout copy masters wherever appropriate. Section 2 of the Facilitators Guide includes 84 sets of coaching tips, (12 per competency), designed to direct development for low scorers of each individual item (behavior) on the questionnaire. Each set of coaching tips expands the context of the behavior and provides several alternative best practices that can be used on-the-job to develop a specific skill. There is a Personal Action Plan template and a Contract for Change that participants also get in either their assessment booklet or online report of results.
 Best-Seller! The Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile will help individuals understand how much awareness and commitment exists towards the diversity of individuals and different backgrounds in their organization. More About the Diagnostic Assessments When individuals or organizations face significant situations or challenges, one of the first priorities is to understand the issues involved and to work out what needs to be done. In many cases, we do not need any formal assistance to help this process and can think our way through the steps that seem to be most appropriate. However, on occasion the issues or the problems may not be entirely clear and a structured approach can help considerably. To meet this need, here is a simple and easy-to-use but comprehensive diagnostic assessment profiles to help people understand their skills or the situations they face more effectively. HRD Press’ diagnostic assessments fall into three categories:
All of these assessments are described in detail on the subsequent pages. In most cases, assessments have comprehensive facilitator guides to explain the underlying structure of the profile and to help facilitators to provide structured feedback. Person and organization assessments also have detailed coaching guides which provide practical “how to” tips on each question in the relevant profile.
 Most of us are less skilled at handling conflict than we should be. Although studies show that a negotiating behavior is usually the best response to a conflict situation, negotiation is a difficult endeavor-one that requires considerable skill and thought. The normal negotiating behavior, as typically practiced in business and social contexts, does not generally produce high levels of satisfaction for either participant. The Dealing with Conflict Instrument (DWCI) will help change this by encouraging conflicting parties to shift to a more collaborative style in order to find and pursue shared interests, creating a win/win outcome. The Dealing with Conflict Instrument presents five conflict-handling styles. The five styles; accommodate, avoid, compromise, compete, and collaborate, encompass all the effective ways of dealing with conflict. By completing the Dealing with Conflict Instrument-Self, participants will learn about their own natural style tendencies, while the information gathered from the DWCI 360-Degree Feedback set will give them insight into how they are perceived by others when resolving conflicts. The combined results of these assessments indicate which styles of conflict resolution need the most improvement. Participants will explore the characteristics of each conflict-handling style which will help them develop greater style flexibility. In order to decide which style is best in a given situation, they will learn to dissect situations, using Conflict Situation Analysis. DWCI is a significant improvement over conventional conflict assessments. It shortens usage time, produces clearer and more user-friendly results, and includes helpful support material. DWCI is compatible with most existing training programs and is the easiest way to update assessment materials.
 Trainers Guide Improve your selling skills by better understanding yourself and others using the INSIGHT Inventory. This new selling system uses the INSIGHT Inventory to help increase sales effectiveness. It will help participants to understand themselves and others better and to use this understanding to improve interpersonal relationships with customers. This makes it possible for salespeople to reduce the interpersonal tension that often develops from style differences between themselves and their customers and to create open, honest dialogue. Sales representatives will be able to uncover customer needs and accurately match them with the most appropriate products and services. The Selling with INSIGHT System includes:
Participants will learn
 The Test of Supervisory Skills (TOSS), formerly Elements of Supervision, is a 70-item, multiple-choice, untimed test that taps the knowledge required for successful supervision. Based on careful, repeated factor analyses of supervisory behavior, TOSS provides norms that allows a comparison of scores with a large (1,000+) number of supervisory and non-supervisory profile. The new version of this well-established screening instrument includes separate test booklets and self-scoring answer sheets and a revised, enhanced technical and administrative manual. TOSS is a valid instrument for evaluating both applicants for supervisory positions and those being considered for promotion to such positions.
In just 20 minutes participants can complete the INSIGHT Inventory and begin bridging communication gaps that are costing your company a fortune. Key Benefits
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Description INSIGHT Inventory has a fast paced approach in an uncomplicated format which can make it the centerpiece of a training program or easy to integrate into an existing curriculum. Easy to use, participants will see results quickly. INSIGHT moves quickly from developing a profile to applying the learning. INSIGHT allows participants to develop a profile and apply what they have learned. Consultants and trainers alike appreciate the INSIGHT Inventory's ease of use and skill building designed to produce results in a quality psychometric instrument. INSIGHT can be used for:
$69.99 [Add to Cart]  All assessments are self scoring and are suitable for self development or group facilitated training: Leadership Effectiveness Profile, Coaching Effectiveness Profile, Change Management Effectiveness Profile, Communication Effectiveness Profile, Listening Effectiveness Profile, Teambuilding Effectiveness Profile, Creativity/Innovation Effectiveness Profile, Sales Effectiveness Profile, Goal/Objective Setting Profile, Customer Commitment Profile, Personal Stress & Well Being Assessment, Diversity and Cultural Awareness Profile, Time Management Effectiveness Profile, Problem Solving and Decision-Making Profile, Management Effectiveness Profile, Networking and Relationship Building Profile, Emotional Intelligence Profile, Learning Styles Questionnaire, Negotiation Style Instrument, Assertiveness Profile, Influence Style Profile, Management Styles Questionnaire.
 This innovative book is a gold mine of field-tested principles, activities, instruments, and designs. The materials will help you produce high impact training to support performance improvement initiatives for individuals and teams. Everything is reproducible and even customizable using the word processing files provided on disk. More than 60 tools, activities, and designs are included. One look through this fieldbook, and you'll agree that it is the most directly beneficial collection of tools for trainers ever assembled under one cover.
 Frustrated when you can’t find the right assessments and inventories to use during training sessions? This manual is chock full of an assortment of assessments, checklists and surveys covering a variety of different topic areas. It is a must resource for trainers, HR professionals, line managers, team leaders – anyone who wants to provoke self-awareness and discussion during training and development sessions. The 49 inventories are arranged in alphabetical order by topic. For easy reference, they are organized in a matrix index into 10 categories:
In each category, you’ll find a wide range of inventories covering the skills, attitudes and behaviors needed to demonstrate virtually any skill set or competency – such as assertiveness, interview skills, motivation, creativity, conflict management and many more. You can use each inventory as a stand-alone item. The inventories also are ideal as preparatory material before sessions, part of group or individual coaching sessions or assessment modules to gauge improvement after training is over. Using the key learning points that accompany each inventory, you’ll become a better trainer as you learn how to initiate stimulating discussions and help learners create their own personal action plans.
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