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The Competency Toolkit

This user-friendly package contains the most innovative methods, procedures, suggestions, and materials available to help you identify competencies and create models, individual competency assessments, and individual development planning.

Developed by two experts with 50+ years of combined experience, this kit is packed with step-by-step tips and guidelines to simplify and speed up the competency-creation process. Everything you need to know to succeed is here—how to win management support, conduct briefing presentations, do’s and don’ts, best practices, and so much more. Key Highlights

  • Gaining organization support for competency identification
  • White paper for management stating basic principles and concepts, and an Action Planning Form to help you structure group thinking about the issues
  • Creating competency models step-by-step Introduction to competency identification and modeling techniques, steps for researching competencies and developing a model, planning and managing checklist, worksheets, activities, product samples, and other hands-on tools
  • Using a competency-based multi-rater assessment system
  • A discussion of the basics of competency-based multi-rater assessments and a management-briefing package to inform leaders on the principles, practices, and opportunities of using competency assessment
  • Helping individuals build their competencies: individual and managerial contract development
  • Detailed explanation of key issues and concepts to help you align competency assessment results with individual development initiatives, an executive-briefing package and an employee-briefing package on individual development planning, both with overhead masters, handouts, and other materials.

Bonus!
CD-ROM with reproducible materials to ensure the success of your competency initiative!

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50 Activities for Collaborative Management

Format: Three-Ring Binder

In 50 Activities for Collaborative Management, you’ll find an array of dynamic and engaging exercises to help you explore what makes collaborative management work, its potential benefits and how to experience them in your organization.

Each exercise highlights a specific aspect of collaboration, such as:

  • Thinking collaboratively
  • Ten collaboration myths
  • Finding collaborative common ground
  • Playing collaborative roles
  • Finding collaborative opportunities
  • Talent tapping
  • Erroneous collaborative assumptions
  • Reaching collaborative consensus

With each exercise, you’ll get everything you need to bring it to life—including a purpose, description, time to allot, presentation tips and debriefing statement.

  • 50 Activities for Collaborative Management $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Leadership Lessons From Mom - 5 Pack

It’s amazing how often Mom’s advice fits right into the business world. Leadership Lessons from Mom was written to encapsulate just some of the many leadership lessons learned from our mothers so you can use them to be successful in business and life.

These 21 valuable lessons will help you know just what to say and how you should handle virtually any situation. They are timeless, universal and can be easily applied to your everyday work life. For example:

  • eating your vegetables (taking care of your health)
  • tucking in your shirt (paying attention to your image in the workplace)
  • don’t be late for dinner (getting to work on time, keeping appointments, meeting deadlines)
  • be polite (showing common courtesy to others)
  • mind your manners (following the culture and customs of your organization)
  • watch your mouth (avoiding the use of foul language)

Each lesson is covered in a separate section and includes an inspirational summary statement and leadership tips, such as:

  • serve as a mediator between employees having conflicts with one another
  • floor areas should not be used to store books, papers and notebooks
  • help employees learn to make the best use of their time through time management tools and training resources
  • encourage employees to find better ways to perform their jobs

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Leadership Lessons From Professional Football - 5 Pack

This book was written to help leaders use some of the valuable lessons learned from winning teams to help your team become more successful. These 30 lessons remind leaders that a tradition of winning alone won’t make them successful. You have to continue a tradition of winning every day, whether you are a professional football team or any other type of organization. The lessons focus on such topics as:

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  • teamwork (emphasizing team—rather than individual— performance)
  • learning from the players (those on the field are often in the best position to understand what changes need to be made)
  • superstars (the problem with relying on the performance of a single performer)
  • bench strength (having individuals you can call upon with little notice)
  • unsung heroes (taking time to recognize those whose performances are important but may go unnoticed)

    Each lesson is covered in a separate section and includes an inspirational summary statement and thought-provoking leadership questions, such as:

    • how can you ensure that all of your employees stay in the game even during discouraging and difficult times they may face?
    • how do you keep score at work?
    • does everyone have the essential skills required to do their jobs?
    • does your team have a game plan?

    • Leadership Lessons From Professional Football - 5 Pack $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Learning Points: 89 Activities and Actions for Coaching Call Center CSR's

    The traditional role of the call center is a thing of the past. Being an effective “coach” is fast becoming the most valuable asset you can offer your employees, call center and organization.

    This interactive training guide is designed for those responsible for the ultimate success of the call center. It is packed with tips and strategies that will help you do your job better and continuously coach your CSR’s to improve their skills and the level of service they provide.

    The book is organized into five parts that drill down to the supervisor’s role:

    • The changing role of the supervisor
    • Motivating others
    • Creating effective communications
    • Helping CSR's work together as a team
    • Resolving conflicts between CSR’s

    Within each section are learning points – 89 in all. Use these tips, exercises, multiple choice quizzes and other tools to become more effective at giving the support and guidance your employees need from you to perform their jobs in the best way possible.

    In just minutes, you’ll gain insight and tips that will enable you to change from telling employees what to do to and ensuring the work gets done to coaching employees to reach their greatest potential.

    For example, you’ll learn how to build trust, recognize CSR’s, make yourself clear, give feedback, create synergy, become a role model, deal with upset CSR’s – and many more skills that will have a huge impact on your CSR’s and how satisfied customers are with the service your call center provides. 

    • Learning Points: 89 Activities and Actions for Coaching Call Center CSR's $69.99 [Add to Cart]
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    25 Role Plays for Interview Training - (3 ring binder)

    Training Objectives

    • Provide opportunities for individuals to try out new skills without cost to either the organization or the individual
    • Provide training in areas that can only be developed by practice
    • Obtain feedback from observers to aid personal development
    • Enable participants to test their skills in a variety of real-life situations
    • Enable participants to practice in a risk-free environment

    Select role-plays to develop skills in each of the five main interview types:

    • Selection
    • Discipline
    • Appraisal
    • Separation
    • Counseling

    Time Guidelines

    • Each role play takes between 11/2 and 2 hours.

    • 25 Role Plays for Interview Training - (3 ring binder) $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD

    Need the keys to conflict around your office? Well, here they are! Unlocking Conflict! offers fast-paced, entertaining tools to handle conflict, from positive reinforcement of tried-and-true methods to new ideas for helping solve conflict issues in the workplace. Anyway you look at it, Unlocking Conflict! is your master key to workplace harmony!

    Key Learning Points

    • Easily implementable solutions to workplace conflict.
    • Innovative methods to help reduce conflict in many different situations.
    • Fun music and progressive animations to engage the audience.

    Includes: 3 minute DVD or VHS Video

    • Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD $295.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD Rental $195.00 [Add to Cart]
    • Unlocking Conflict! Meeting Opener - DVD Preview $0.00 [Add to Cart]
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    Ethical Type Indicator - Leaders Kit

    This Training Manual explains how to use The Ethical Type Indicator with The Seminar on Ethical Reasoning - an experiential workshop in which participants discover, examine and explore their ethical values and inner ethical constitution.

    Conduct a two-hour, half-day or full-day module in your organization

    Program Includes:

    • Background information on The Ethical Type Indicator
    • Detailed instructions for its use
    • The trainer's guide for conducting a seminar on ethical reasoning using The Ethical Type Indicator
    • Seminar outlines
    • PowerPoint® slide show

    About the Author

    Louie V. Larimer, is the founder and president of Focused Strategies, Inc., a management consulting firm that helps CEOs develop and implement profitable business strategies. He holds a bachelors degree in psychology, masters degree in business administration, and a juris doctorate. Mr. Larimer has taught graduate level courses in management, organizational development, ethics, law, conflict resolution, and negotiations.

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    15 Activities For Reinforcing Business Ethics And Values

    In today’s business climate, simply having an ethics policy in place isn’t enough. You must continually keep ethics up front and center to avoid the ethical violations—and erosion of confidence—seen in corporate America today.

    This book contains 15 easy-to-use activities that can be used individually or as a whole to reinforce your company’s ethics and values. And inspire employees to recommit to responsible business behavior.

    • 15 Activities For Reinforcing Business Ethics And Values $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    25 Reproducible Activities for Customer Service Excellence

    Make it easy for employees to provide great customer service with this collection of motivating and skill-building activities. There’s no need for a special training facility, no huge costs involved, or no prior training experience required. All you need is a group of employees who are committed to giving customers what they rightfully deserve—excellent service.

    Areas covered include:

    • the customer's first impression
    • customer paradigms
    • listening to the customer
    • finding out who the customer really is
    • how rumors get started and spread
    • the importance of telephone greeting messages
    • dealing with telephone tag
    • telephone communications
    • understanding what the customer really wants
    • characteristics of successful customer service
    • customer service diseases
    • developing your personal improvement plan
    • personalities of potential buyers
    • types of customers
    • customer complaints
    • tips for selling your product or service
    • positive and negative words
    • winning and losing the customer
    • logic vs emotion in selling
    • 25 Reproducible Activities for Customer Service Excellence $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation, Volume 2

    Includes FREE CD with 25 role plays from the popular first volume-50 total role plays!

    Updated with 25 new role plays not covered in the first volume, the latest edition of the popular 25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation will inspire you to think and act like a negotiation expert. If you're a management training and development specialist who needs one or two role-plays to use in a negotiation program, this book's a must. The book provides the opportunity to practice the behaviors used most frequently by successful negotiators-including questioning, clarifying, checking for understanding, summarizing and active listening.

    Each of these role plays is based on a unique approach to negotiation embracing three critical concepts:

    • Successful negotiation is not an adversarial process, but a collaborative framework for creative problem-solving
    • The needs and interests of both negotiating parties must be addressed if there is to be a long-term solution
    • Negotiation is an ongoing process, and today's negotiation will affect the long-term relationship between the parties

    Try out new behaviors that will help you:

    • Handle situations among co-workers regarding their roles and responsibilities
    • Talk with your employees about their performance
    • Improve relationships between the purchasing staff and internal clients
    • Deal with difficult customers

    Sample role-plays:

    • The new project manager
    • The difficult team member
    • The difficult discussion/meeting
    • Engineering changes

    • 25 Role Plays to Teach Negotiation, Volume 2 $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Flex Style Negotiating - Instructor's Manual

    Flex Style Negotiating is a 360-degree assessment-based performance improvement program for all professionals who rely on effective negotiation skills. It profiles participants' preferred negotiation styles and defines legitimate versus illegitimate behaviors.

    Flex Style Negotiating uses a situational model to explain the negotiation process. Participants are taught to diagnose negotiation situations and adapt their behavior to maximize the likelihood of a successful outcome. Not only does the program define the behaviors that make up the participant's style, it suggests alternative behaviors the negotiator can use in order to "flex their style" more readily and in more situations.

    Flex Style Negotiating includes two instruments, a strategic job aid, and a combination reproducible Participant's Workbook/Instructor's Manual. The instruments are the Behavioral Style Assessment/Self and the Behavioral Style Assessment/Other. The job aid is the Situational Strategy Selector.

    The Instructor's Manual explores topics such as personal approaches to conflict, different styles of negotiation, and advanced techniques for competition and collaboration. It contains experiential activities for exploring conflict and creativity, role plays for negotiation leadership and anger, and, overall, represents a solid game plan for developing flexible negotiation skills.

    • Flex Style Negotiating - Instructor's Manual $149.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Flex Style Negotiating - Other Assessment 5-Pack $69.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Flex Style Negotiating - Participants Workbook 5 - Pack $149.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Flex Style Negotiating - Self Assessment: Self 5-Pack $69.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Changing Pace - Binder/Book

    This collection of experiential activities in game format will enable trainers and facilitators to make effective use of the outdoors as a vehicle for learning. It contains sixty-three creative games that can be conducted easily and safely with a minimum of materials and preparation. Many of the activities can be run equally well indoors.

    Each activity is presented in a standard format that includes a summary, a statement of objectives, a note of any materials required, time requirements, and detailed guidance on the effective use of the games in training. The games vary in length from a few minutes to over an hour. Together they provide a rich store of adventure, energy, and memorable learning.

    Games Teach

    • Cooperation
    • Decision making
    • Ethics
    • Goal-setting
    • Planning
    • Rewards
    • Trust
    • Inter-team collaboration
    • Communication
    • Creativity
    • Leadership
    • Problem solving
    • Risk taking
    • Team learning

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    DISCstyles Assessment 5 - Pack

    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:

    • Gain awareness of personal strengths and motivations
    • Uncover career development opportunities
    • Improve methods for interpersonal communication
    • Enhance conflict resolution ability
    • Create 360-degree feedback for your leaders
    • Build and strengthen teams
    • Improve professional relationships internally and externally

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    Building The Best Training Program: Your One-Stop Learning Resource

    This new manual is ideal for a brand new supervisor to a manager with years of experience. It will help them become a more effective trainer. It will strengthen training skills; sell management on its importance, and help you turn out a well-trained workforce.

    In just 7 chapters you'll find everything you need to have an effective and total training program:

    Includes:

    • How to conduct a needs assessment
    • How to develop the training plan for your organization
    • How to choose the most effective training techniques
    • When and how to outsource
    • How to prepare for your training
    • How to conduct a successful training session
    • How to ensure your training is effective
    • Plus appendix with sample worksheets and more

    • Building The Best Training Program: Your One-Stop Learning Resource $149.99 [Add to Cart]