Train the Trainer

Increase your understanding of facilitation and learn interventions and exercises you can use with others. This resource manual provides managers, trainers and consultants a format based on the core skills facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will face at work.

The Fast Facilitator shows the difference facilitation skills can make in helping people learn, be more self-aware, be more flexible in their thinking and behavior and build their self-confidence.

The manual is organized into three parts covering a huge amount of groundwork: Essential facilitation, group and team facilitation and creative facilitation.

Topics include what is facilitation, the qualities of a facilitator, planning and structuring, understanding roles in teams, when and how to intervene, working with diversity and defense patterns. Key issues covered range from attentiveness and culture to emotional expression, openness and feedback.

Each of the 30 chapters is divided into four areas:

• The theory behind the topic to help you make sense of the activity and the issues you are facing
• Activities, games and exercises you can use with groups to build skills
• Coaching advice for working one-on-one
• Ideas and resource for self-development including traps to consider and difficulties you might encounter as a facilitator

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]

"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: 50 Interactive Activities $149.99 [Add to Cart]

The 50 activities in this resource book has been tested with hundreds of participants to ensure their appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs. Employees at all levels will be stimulated by interactively learning about cultural and gender differences and mastering new skills for communicating more effectively in our diverse workplaces.

Activities Cover

• Diversity icebreakers
• Change
• Communication
• Conflict resolution
• Gender at work
• Culture and career transitions

Training Objectives

• Illustrate how cultural differences may impact behavior
• Increase awareness of the impact of culture in the workplace
• Demonstrate skills for managing a culturally diverse work force
• Address issues of gender in the workplace

Training Methods

• Ice breakers
• Participative exercises
• Role-plays
• Mini case studies

Includes: 300 Pages, 3-Ring Binder