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The Fast Facilitator - 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Process, and Creative Techniques

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. Learn more

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. Learn more

The ASTD Reference Guide to Workplace Learning & Performance (3rd Edition)

The ASTD Reference Guide, third edition, is intended to provide a context for the Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP) field, to expand on the roles and competencies described in ASTD Models for Workplace Learning and Performance Learn more

The Encyclopedia of Games for Trainers

This collection of over 145 group games will get participants involved in the learning process and add substance to new or existing programs on any training topic. Learn more

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. Learn more

Trainer's Assessment of Proficiency (TAP) Profile DVD Kit

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.

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Training House Reproducible Games and Simulations

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.

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500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers

Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving. Learn more

Dynamic Leadership for The 21st Century & Facilitator Guide DVD Version

The 21st century business world calls for 21st century leadership. Our business environment today is vastly different from what it used to be. It’s a world of change —change in ownership, in management, and in operations. Learn more

The Training Needs Analysis Toolkit, 2nd Edition w/ Diskette

Make your training count! Whether you are a seasoned or inexperienced training professional, making your training count is the number one way to influence the future success of your organization. The way to do this is to match all training directly to the needs of the organization and the people in it. This unique manual will show you how to do just that! Use this Toolkit as a resource for analyzing training needs, selecting training strategies, and developing training plans to meet the identified needs.

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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

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Training Clips

Contains 150 reproducible, insightful short pieces on a wide range of management issues and training topics. Includes a CD-ROM to give you added flexibility to copy clips to your PC for printing, and even allows you to distribute clips via e-mail.

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All New Tricks For Trainers

57 tricks, brainteasers, and puzzlers, designed to amaze your training audience and hold their attention. Filled with openings and energizers to energize the audience and lay a foundation for improved retention of new material. Learn more

Experiential Training Activities for Outside and In

Use these physically engaging activities in a fresh air, outdoor setting as a stimulating change of pace for your training sessions. Learn more

101 Games for Trainers Package

101 classroom-tested games, exercizes, and activities that add spark and energy to your training sessions. PLUS 101 more games that will engage participants and bring weary participants back to life. Every trainer runs into that situation where participants hit the wall. These games and activities will splash excitement back into your audience and reenergize your training.

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Simulations for Assessment, Training, and Development

This manual contains four sets of job simulation exercises, each comprising a number of activities that can be run in sequence or as stand-alone sessions. The simulations can be used for assessment centers or for training. For assessment purposes, there are two optional competence frameworks: managerial and professional. Learn more

Establishing the Value of Training w/CD

Establishing the Value of Training helps trainers and managers meet these challenges by providing practical guidance, job aids, and computerized worksheets for calculating training costs and returns. The guide provides proven strategies for combining traditional return-on-investment methodologies with assessments of other less tangible benefits of training.

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Skills for Internal Consultants Workshop

This comprehensive 2-day workshop includes lesson plans, instructor guidance, slides, and participant materials to train trainers to become internal consultants. Ideal for adding value to the training mission and developing key skills in training staff to make them more effective facilitators, internal partners, and change agents who focus on performance. Learn more

Stories Trainers Tell: 55 Ready-to-Use Stories to Make Training Stick

Telling stories is a powerful way to make a point, especially when the stories are compelling, well-constructed, and poignant. This book captures thought-provoking stories contributed by trainers, nationally known speakers, consultants, business leaders, educators, and professional storytellers that help make challenging ideas and abstract concepts stick. Learn more

Delivering Training Workshops: Pfeiffer Essential Guides to Training Basics

Delivering Training Workshops is filled with practical information, best practices, and proven strategies. This book will help trainers, no matter what their level of experience, prepare and deliver effective workshops that achieve results for both individuals and their organizations while meeting the challenges of today's fast-paced, rapidly changing learning environment. Learn more

Terrific Training Materials

This HR Trainers resource selection includes 34 ready to use design layouts for workbooks, handouts, instructor guides and job aids. All the specifications are included so you can quickly and easily reproduce these proven graphic designs in your own training materials. Learn more

Applied Strategic Planning: Consultant's Toolkit, 2nd Edition

Applied Strategic Planning: The Consultant's Toolkit is a powerful aid to consultants, facilitators and change agents engaged in implementing strategic planning with organizational- and executive-planning teams. Learn more

The Conflict Resolution Training Program: Leader's Manual

The Conflict Resolution Training Program Leader's Manual offers a step-by-step approach for teaching dispute resolution techniques to both new and seasoned negotiators, mediators, and arbitrators. This hands-on manual is filled with a variety of exercises, activities, worksheets, role plays, and other interactive techniques that are readily accessible for teaching the skills needed to resolve conflicts. Trainers can select the sections of the flexible program that best meet their specific objectives and goals. Learn more