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Coaching For Peak Employee Performance: Facilitation Kit

Help Others Achieve Optimal Success

Coaching is more than correcting undesired behavior. It provides managers and supervisors with an opportunity to affirm, communicate, problem solve, and effectively sell the need for change. Coaching For Peak Employee Performance enables participants to monitor and diagnose performance improvement needs and prepare for and give feedback to employees using a proven, four-step Feedback Planner.

Skill-Based Program Content

  • Monitoring and documenting employee performance to identify normal and deficient variations
  • Diagnosing performance improvement requirements based on expectations, deficiencies, and needs
  • Determining ways to improve situations by matching solutions to performance improvement requirements
  • Sharing both positive and constructive feedback with style using the Feedback Planner
  • Recognizing winning performance to build commitment and strengthen loyalty

Program Length: Half Day

Facilitator Kit:
The Coaching For Peak Employee Performance Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

  • Facilitator Guide
  • PowerPoint Presentation
  • Online Tools
  • Participant Kit (See below)

Participant Kit:
Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Coaching For Peak Employee Performance Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

  • Participant Workbook
  • Planning Successful Employee Performance Practical Guidebook

  • Coaching For Peak Employee Performance: Facilitation Kit $399.99 [Add to Cart]
  • Coaching For Peak Employee Performance: Participant Kit $59.99 [Add to Cart]
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50 Activities for Conflict Resolution

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

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Complete Management Skills Assessment Kit

12 Reproducible Instruments for Trainers
Mike Woodcock , Dave Francis

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

  • The Change Agent Style Assessment
  • The Change Leadership Assessment
  • The Consultant Skills Assessment
  • The Director's Skills Assessment
  • The Influencing Skills Assessment
  • The Learning Styles Assessment
  • The Listening Skills Assessment
  • The Motivation Assessment
  • The Personal Effectiveness Assessment
  • The Problem-Solving Skills Assessment
  • The Stress Assessment
  • The Trainer Skills Audit
  • Complete Management Skills Assessment Kit $149.99 [Add to Cart]
50 Activities for Creativity and Problem Solving

Activity Manual

Training Objective

  • Develop creative thinking
  • Offer new approached to problem solving
  • Develop approaches to problems that will not respond to traditional problem-solving methods

Activities Cover

  • Problem analysis
  • Thinking process
  • Finding solutions
  • Implementation of creative problem-solving methods
  • 50 Activities for Creativity and Problem Solving $149.99 [Add to Cart]
50 Activities for Developing Leaders Vol. II

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]
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50 Activities for Developing Supervisory Skills

Ian Nicholls

Training Objective

  • Define the role of the supervisor
  • Develop key supervisory skills, including planning, organizing, and controlling
  • Improve communication skills
  • Develop skills for running effective meetings

    Activities Cover

    • Discipline
    • Planning and setting objectives
    • Decision making
    • Problem solving

    • 50 Activities for Developing Supervisory Skills $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    50 Activities for Diversity Training

    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. INCLUDES: 300 Pages, 3-Ring Binder

    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

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    50 Activities for Managing Stress - Binder/Book
    • Understanding stress
    • Types of stress
    • Stress and performance
    • Sources of stress
    • Managing stress

    Training Objectives

    • Identify the various forms of stress
    • Decide which types of people may be susceptible to stress
    • Examine the different sources of stress and the impact on people and their performance
    • Examine the kinds of coping strategies that individuals and groups use and how these strategies affect performance

    • 50 Activities for Managing Stress - Binder/Book $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    50 Activities for Promoting Ethics within the Organization

    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]
    50 Activities for Sales Training

    Novice and experienced salespeople alike will benefit from these activities which focus on strengthening essential selling skills. The ready-to-use activities offer practice in closing a sale, developing new business, resolving customer objections, managing sales relationships, and more.

    Program Includes: A 3-Ring Binder, 300 pages, trainer's notes, feedback instruments, exercises and simulations.

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    Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit

    Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Your Meetings

    Poorly planned meetings often result in unclear goals and objectives which inevitably lead to other time consuming, non-productive meetings down the road. In contrast, well-conducted meetings are powerful communication tools that improve productivity, encourage team involvement, and build commitment. And, as with other tools, there are certain procedures and techniques you can use to maximize effectiveness. Meetings That Work! provides practical examples and proven methods on the three essential stages of preparing, conducting, and evaluating meetings, and for building team success.

    The easy to use Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to

    Facilitator Kit The Meetings That Work! Facilitator Kit includes materials listed below and must be purchased to order Participant Kits:

    • Facilitator Guide
    • PowerPoint Presentation*
    • Online Tools

    Participant Kit:
    Participant materials required to support the training program are available. Each Meetings That Work! Participant Kit includes materials listed below:

    • Facilitator Guide
    • (1) Participant Kit
    • Online Tools with PowerPoint Presentation (CD-ROM)

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    Meetings, Bloody Meetings - DVD

    Featuring John Cleese

    Free Online Preview

    Too many meeting are genuine nightmares. They lack preparation, direction, and worst of all, results.

    Thankfully, there's Meetings, Bloody Meetings. This award-winning program, remade in 1993, is essential viewing for anyone who chairs meetings. You'll learn how to make your get-togethers shorter, more focused, and more productive. And you'll find plenty to laugh at along the way.

    John Cleese's nightmare meetings land him in court for negligent conduct of meetings. The court pronounces Cleese guilty of all five counts: failing to prepare, failing to inform others, failing to plan the agenda, failing to control the discussion, and failing to record the decisions.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Plan meetings in advance
    • Prepare a detailed agenda
    • Pre-notify attendees
    • Control the discussion
    • Summarize and record decisions

    Suggested Uses:

    • Meeting management
    • Time Management
    • Internal communication

    Includes: 31 minute videocassette and Leader's Guide.

    *Also available in French and Spanish

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    Twenty Reproducible Assessment Instruments

    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:

    • Stimulate participant's thinking and awareness about themselves and others
    • Provide objective feedback about behavior and performance
    • Serve as a basis for discussion and learning, as well as for personal and organizational development

    The Assessments:

    • Human Resources Inventory
    • Leadership Motivation Inventory
    • Values Imprint Survey
    • Quality of Life Index
    • Relocation Preparation Index
    • Change Inventory for Leaders
    • Force Field Analysis Invetory
    • Group Maturity Analysis
    • Individual Behavior Analysis
    • Team Performance Survey
    • Team Synergy Analysis Inventory
    • High Performance Management Inventory
    • Management Communications Inventory
    • Managing People Skills Inventory
    • Intercultural Relations Inventory
    • Inventory of Transformational Management Skills
    • Organizational Culture Survey
    • Organizational Role & Relationships Inventory
    • Organizational Meetings
    • Management Inventory
    • Twenty Reproducible Assessment Instruments $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Coaching Effectiveness Workshop Instructor's Guide

    Everyone these days is talking about “coaching.” But do your employees understand what “coaching” really means? More importantly, do they practice it regularly?

    The workshop is organized into four sections. Sectionone helps participants understand their own coaching style, “read” the needs of others, identify the learning styles of others and set the climate for coaching. Section two focuses on how to assess alternative coaching methods and determine when and where to coach. Section three tackles how to create the time and opportunity to coach and find opportunities to build relationships. In four, participants will learn how to encourage communication and feedback, develop a long-term monitoring plan and review and adjust as they go. 

    The Instructor’s Guide contains all you need to conduct a workshop – introductory notes, a suggested timetable, background notes, a trainer’s checklist, course notes, action planning and evaluation forms and a CD with PowerPoint slide masters. 

    Instructor's Guide

    • Coaching Effectiveness Workshop Instructor's Guide $189.99 [Add to Cart]
    • Coaching Effectiveness Workshop Participant Book $29.99 [Add to Cart]
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    Committing To Team Approach

    This workshop will energize newly formed teams by helping members explore different team roles as well as four critical stages of team development. By learning through experiential exercises about the behaviors that occur at each stage of team development, members will preempt resistance to the team approach.

    Workshop Includes:

    • Instructor's Guide
    • Lesson plans and activities
    • Instruments(if applicable)
    • Participant Coursebook
    • Transparency Masters

    Time Required: 4 hours