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 By Lois B. Hart, Ed.D This instructors manual for the Faultless facilitation program offers 48 in-class learning activities and optional training designs to go with the best-selling Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide. The instructors manual lays out exactly how to plan, run, and evaluate skill-based training for inexperienced facilitators. Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide
 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:
 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.
Use this manual when you need support in dealing with a specific issue at work or when developing your professional skills. It is full of principles and practices that will enable you to get the best out of people. Pages - 202
 Hands-on experience is the name of the game with this unique spectrum of learning opportunities! This diverse collection of reproducible games and simulations makes learning a fun and participative way for employees to gain experience in the key concepts and skills essential to their success in the workplace. It is an ideal resource for trainers looking for a creative way to instill new ideas and skills, but who do not have the time to develop a new game on their own. This valuable assortment of 18 unique training games is ready-to-use and includes clear objectives, detailed instructor guidelines and reproducible materials for participants. Games and Simulations Cover
 Best-Seller Featuring John Cleese
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:
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Includes: 31 minute videocassette and Leader's Guide.
 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.
 Are you maximizing every opportunity to connect with participants before, during and after training? This is the key to optimizing the learning experience of every individual – and the focus of these 125 tested and proven-effective activities for trainers. The activities are grouped under five critical points of contact trainers have with participants:
Based on the principles of accelerated and adult learning, the activities have sound objectives. But they are also fun. Some utilize all the senses. Many get participants on their feet and moving around. Others encourage participants to reveal what they already know and apply what they learn. The activities are formatted for easy use with clearly marked objectives, best occasion to use them, group size, estimated time equipment and supplies needed and materials. Many of the activities have ready-to-use handouts.
 New Release Available on Video & DVD! Based on the book by author Tony Jeary, Life IS a Series of Presentations demonstrates how to focus and execute your communication so that every time you present an idea, a message, a speech, or even conduct a meeting, you will gain the skills necessary to maximize your daily interactions. The course follows a series of easy-to-use steps with the P.O.I.N.T. model, enabling participants to inspire, inform, and influence others confidently and persuasively. Ultimately, employees will establish credibility, improve working relationships, increase efficiency and effectiveness, improve job and personal satisfaction, and more. After viewing this video, employees will know how to:
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 Adult Learning Principles is a comprehensive training course exhibiting the highest standards of instructional design. Now you can re-create a course developed at 20 times your cost, using the highest standards of instructional design. All materials are included for the trainer to lead sessions including approaches to accommodate different learning styles and exercises on topics like knowledge retention.
 This new collection of instruments provides team building practitioners with tools designed to assist in the development of individuals, teams, and organizations. The instruments range from very simple, self-scored tools, to more complex assessments that provide in-depth information on teams. All of the instruments are fully reproducible which makes them a very cost-effective alternative to in-house development or off-the-shelf instruments. Includes: 3-Ring Binder, 200 Pages.
 Just say "NO" to boring training classes and unproductive meetings. Turn your trainers and meeting leaders into "Fearless Facilitators"! They'll learn how to bring a laser-like focus to every agenda, handle disruptions with ease and condense a week's worth of meetings into a single session. "Fearless Facilitators" expertly foster participation and make any group session more productive. Learning Point Highlights:
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 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
 How to Support Individual and Organizational Learning
As a workplace learning professional, what do you need to be able to do to keep up with a fast-changing industry and move ahead? You’ll find all the answers in a single source—Learning at Work, the third edition of Training for Organizations first published in 1996. Special updates to this new edition include additional topics and new “Voices from the Field”—interviews with workplace learning professionals who offer their insights, experiences and perspectives. Part 1 sets the stage for the book by describing the need for educational leadership in organizations, current and emerging roles for the learning professional and the instructional development cycle. Part 2 emphasizes the need for careful needs assessment, the purposes of evaluation and collecting and analyzing needs assessment and evaluation data. Part 3 reviews the best of what is known about learning from instructional design and delivery and theoretical perspectives for workplace learning to planning for instruction and enabling learning inside and outside the classroom. In part 4, you’ll find techniques and ideas for supporting learning throughout your organization. Chapters are devoted to writing the training proposal, supporting change in the workplace, administering programs and maintaining your professional edge. Book - 432Pages
 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
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 Today’s supervisors face far greater challenges than any of their predecessors. The good news is that they need master only five basic skills to excel in their roles and progress to higher levels of responsibility. Here’s a tool you can use to help supervisors identify their strengths in these key areas and the skills they need to improve upon:
The self-scoring questionnaire can be completed in just a few minutes. Participants review 25 typical workplace scenarios and choose the actions they would take in these situations. The booklet includes rich interpretation and planning notes to help participants transform what they’ve learned into a plan for developing their own effective supervisory style. Sample scenarios:
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