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675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People

The perfect opportunity to reflect on yourself and where you’re headed

Strategies, ideas and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace

By Laurel Alexander

We all struggle as professionals to stay on top of our game. Here is a book with hundreds of practical ways to take control of moving your career in the direction you want to go – and of helping your people do the same.

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People reflects the real needs of real people in today’s workplace. You’ll gain exercises, activities and strategies that will help you develop your ability to build positive work relationships, change an aspect of your interpersonal behavior, come across as powerful in meetings, listen, make decisions, survive a downsizing and much more. 

The engaging and hands-on resource provides a set of 50 individual learning opportunities and over 600 ideas, techniques and activities for making the most of the learning opportunities. Each module begins with an overview of the subject and moves on to exercises in easy-to-use categories:

  • Individual tasks and reflections
  • Working with others – a peer, colleague or partner
  • Working with a mentor
  • Developing others – exercises for facilitators to use in groups
  • Useful Web sites

You can pick up this book and start wherever you like. You’ll be amazed at how many opportunities you face each day to learn with and from your co-workers, facilitate the development process in others and travel purposefully through your life.

  • 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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50 Activities for Performance Appraisal Training

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By Wendy Denham and Jane Jestico

Teaching employees how to deliver effective performance appraisals will pay big dividends in your organization. But, too often, employees perceive the training as uninteresting – even boring.

Here’s a terrific resource full of hands-on exercises that will make training in this vital area enjoyable and extremely motivating. Every employee – regardless of how experienced they are in appraisals – will be stimulated by learning how to question, listen, be objective, give feedback, communicate and manage the process.  

Each activity is ready-to-use and includes a description, when to use it, objectives, materials and time required, and methods. Each activity takes under 60 minutes or so to complete.

Need to find a specific activity quickly? No problem. The activities are categorized into two groups – the skills and the process – so they are easy to select. All handouts are numbered using the same number as the activity. And some you’ll want to make into transparencies for use with an overhead projector.

Whether you’re a new or experienced trainer, you’ll find all the support you need to lead the activities, adapt them to your own training style and give performance appraisal training the priority it deserves.

Sample activities:

  • Actions Speak Louder
  • Confirm It in Writing
  • Do You Really Mean That?
  • Just Stick to the Facts
  • Praise versus Criticism
  • What Do You Think?
  • Where Do We Go from Here?

Format: 3-ring binder, 308 pp

  • 50 Activities for Performance Appraisal Training $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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Valuing Diversity Training System (3 Manual Set)

The Valuing Diversity® Training System consists of 3 parts, each with 10 modules contained in a user friendly manual. All parts are designed to make the facilitator and participants jobs easier. The material is composed of various parts functioning together to achieve your diversity objectives. All parts of the system contain essential steps in the diversity competency process.

The Valuing Diversity Training System includes the following three, 3-ring binders:

  • Facilitator's Resource Guide - This Resource Guide is a complete reference guide that provides you with full understanding of complex diversity issues and a secure knowledge base to develop and deliver effective training. Critical to the successful diversity process in any organization, this guide offers essential diversity learning concepts for the beginner and thought-provoking reading for the experienced trainer. It provides essential information in the form of key diversity questions, learning points, and notes which correspond to each module and block on the map. (275 pages)
  • This Facilitator's Handbook - provides you with instructions for how to use the training system: how to get started, how to develop a diversity strategy, how to develop a diversity training program, and how to conduct activities related to each of ten modules shown on the map. (500 pages)
  • Participant Workbook - This easy-to-use workbook cuts the facilitator's preparation time in half by providing over 200 prepared handouts, exercises, checklists, worksheets and assessment tools. All materials correspond directly to the learning blocks in the Facilitator's Handbook. These highly interactive materials are specifically designed to increase awareness, provide current diversity information, facilitate skills acquisition and provide participants with invaluable experiential learning. (260 pages)

Valuing Diversity Training System also includes: A Diversity Journey Learning Map which maps out a complete diversity training strategy in a style which enables internal managers and trainers to complement whatever is already being done and 'take what you can use and leave the rest'.

  • Valuing Diversity Training System (3 Manual Set) $500.00 [Add to Cart]
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What's My Team Member Style? - Starter Kit

Team performance begins with individual performance. So, what do team members need to do individually to contribute to their team’s success? What’s My Team Member Style? provides the needed insight. The 18-item assessment helps individuals evaluate how they typically behave on a team and the results reveal their preference for one of 4 team member styles. With increased awareness, they are able to appreciate other team members’ contributions and address differences proactively. Learning Outcomes

  • Learn about the 4 team member styles
  • Identify personal team member style
  • Understand how to capitalize on style strengths and improve trouble spots
  • Identify the styles of fellow teammates
  • Plan how to take full advantage of the team mix of styles
  • Realize how one is perceived by team members through peer feedback

How It Works

Participants respond to 18 statements using a pressure-sensitive form. After scoring is complete, easy-to-read charts allow respondents to quickly scan the strengths and trouble spots that characterize their particular team member styles. To better understand how they are perceived, individual team members can then view Feedback Forms provided by their fellow teammates.

The Facilitator Guide features optional activities that allow participants to practice using flexibility when working with other styles. These activities utilize Feedback Forms (completed by team members prior to the training session) and StylePlay. Each Participant Guide provides a worksheet for positive personal action planning, a diagram for creating a team profile, and team action planning. Uses for What’s My Team Member Style?

What’s My Team Member Style? is an excellent way to kick off any team-building training and can be used as a stand-alone tool or as part of a larger program. It is most effective for members of intact teams who are in the training session together. The assessment can also assist team members in identifying work roles that fit with their team member styles. (For more work-role practice, use Deir el-Medina and Team-Work & Team-Roles in tandem with What’s My Team Member Style?)

What to Order

Order one Facilitator Guide per trainer and one Participant Guide per participant. To give participants insight on how they are viewed by each other, order enough Feedback Forms for each individual to provide feedback on fellow team members.

Package Options:

  • What's My Team Member Style? Starter Kit - Includes: 5 Participant Guides, 15 Feedback Forms and Facilitator Guide What's My Team Member Style? Participant Guide 5-Pack / $49.00
  • What's My Team Member Style? Feedback Form 5-Pack / $25.00
  • What's My Team Member Style? Facilitator Guide / $99.00

  • What's My Team Member Style? - Starter Kit $299.99 [Add to Cart]
  • What's My Team Member Style? Facilitator Guide $99.99 [Add to Cart]
  • What's My Team Member Style? Feedback Form 5-Pack $25.00 [Add to Cart]
  • What's My Team Member Style? Participant Guide 5-Pack $59.95 [Add to Cart]
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50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises

Communication plays such a big part in our lives today. Yet sometimes we get busy and forget just how important communication is to our success, relationships and happiness.

Communication Activities, Icebreakers and Exercises is a great way to:

• Increase participants' awareness of how they communicate
• Help them to build expertise in a variety of essential skills and competencies
• Prepare them to deal effectively with the many types of communication challenges they face every day

Each activity focuses on some facet of communication and includes a description, time guideline, purpose, resources, presentation, debrief, difficulty rating and variations to make implementation easy.

The 50 activities are organized into three, quick-reference parts:

• Communications principles
• Communications icebreakers
• Communications exercises

Are you interested in focusing on silent messages, listening bad habits, the meaning of words or interactive listening? You’ll find powerful exercises in Part I that will help. Do you want to explore new icebreakers? Move on to the Part II activities on vanity name cards, introducing each other, nickname game and repeating introductions. The final part includes skill-building exercises on following directions, communications shutdowns, rumors, communications styles and other topics.

Each individual activity takes only minutes to complete. Together this collection contains a wealth of insight, tips and guidance to prepare employees to become confident communicators who enjoy stronger relationships and greater success and satisfaction on the job.

  • 50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises $149.99 [ Add to Cart ]
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Team Workout

“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
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Compendium of Learning and Development Quizzes

By Sarah Cook

One of the many challenges you face as a trainer is getting employees to look at themselves, their skill gaps and their attitudes. This collection of 43 fun and creative quizzes is just what you need.

You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to find the perfect quiz. The quizzes are organized in alphabetical order. They also are grouped in nine easy-access topic areas: Communication skills, customer service, health and safety, leadership, performance management, personal development, teamwork, recruitment and selection, and training and development.

The quizzes are easy to administer in the classroom, too. Accompanying each quiz are suggested responses to the questions and helpful background information.

 

You’ll find quizzes that ask participants to fill in the blanks, choose from several answers, rank items and pick between true and false. Action plans can be developed immediately after most quizzes are completed and then evaluated. You can adapt each quiz to meet the specific needs of your group simply by changing wording, phrases or questions. You don’t have to be a professional trainer to use these quizzes. You could be a line manager, team leader – anyone who wants a fun and effective way to inspire learners to look inside and get to know themselves better.

Sample topics:

  • Action-centered leadership
  • Body language
  • Delegation
  • Diversity
  • Influencing skills
  • Meeting skills
  • Performance appraisal
  • Stress management
  • Written communication skills

248 Pages

  • Compendium of Learning and Development Quizzes $99.99
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Global Competence

Today most executives and managers need to have an international business and cross-cultural perspective. Global Competence includes 50 training activities and self-development exercises to prepare your personnel for international assignments, and develop better understanding of cross-cultural communication. Compiled by a team of experts from around the world, these ready-to-use activities have been tested and refined for a wide variety of international businesses and organizations. They are ideal for both preparing people to work, market, negotiate, and otherwise do business with people in Asia, Latin America, and Europe and to prepare foreign nationals for working in the U.S.

Selected Contents

Foreward
Introduction&emdash;How to use
this book
Icebreakers
Coups & faux pas
See differences and similarities
Celebrations
Silent interview
Culture general activities
Working with unfamiliar
surroundings
Who am I? Who are you?
Response to difference scale
Cultural awareness through
self-reflection
Building with differences
Communication
Communication continuum
Mixed messages
The transcultural communicator
Conducting the intercultural meeting
Networking across cultures
Describe and draw
What is it? What is it for?
Time
What time is it?
Time and space
Managing time across cultures
Culture-Specific Activities
Global management skills
Cross-cultural dialogues
Values and behavior patterns
Language and Interpretation
Life in another language
Interpreting: Your turn
Leadership & team development
How do you trust?
Decisions, decisions
My most frustrating culture clash
Six key aspects of international business contact
Cultural self-awareness in
leadership teams
Expatriation & Acculturation
Expatriate role analysis
The cross-cultural forum
Dimensions of culture in
organizations