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500 Creative Classroon Techniques for Teachers and Trainers   Approach any training or teaching challenge with these new, fresh and inspired solutions 500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers By Marlene Caroselli 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. 500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers covers all the important basic, including how to: Have participants introduce themselves Test for understanding Add humor Give feedback Use questions Use quotations Have groups report Get through printed material Appoint group leaders You’ll also get creative ways to deal with reluctant learners, make subject matter relevant, encourage participant-learning after the course has ended, develop study habits, make take-home assignments relevant and more. Each of the book’s 20 chapters contains an overview. Within the activities is a wide variety of tips, suggestions, options, cautions, FYI tidbits and recommendations. Use the brainteasers scattered throughout the book to assess the brainpower in the room, when the class needs a mental break, after lunch to get juices flowing again or whenever you have odd minutes to fill. 500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers concludes with an appendix section packed with feedback discussion questions, grammar tests, intuition quizzes, leadership quotes—everything you need to bring training sessions to life and achieve maximum results. $139.95

The Training Needs Analysis Reproducible Toolkit with Diskette - Best Seller $59.95   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. This all new second edition contains 22 reproducible instruments and surveys for gathering information at all levels of your organization. It includes proven techniques for transforming your data into realistic training strategies and solutions. With this Toolkit you will be able to: Provide focus and direction to your training investment Identify top priority training needs and learn techniques for meeting them Systematically plan for training Explore a variety of ways to gather information at all levels of an organization Transform information into realistic training strategies and plans Measure your training department's return on investment Quantify the contribution training makes to overall organizational growth and success Revised Edition Includes: Expanded chapters to provide guidance on analyzing and implementing the information produced by the instruments; More detailed outlines to assist with the analysis; An easy-reference flow chart of actions; New methods for collecting information; A new section on analyzing results for each instrument included. 225 pp/ Paperback with Diskette/ $59.95

Skills for Internal Consultants Workshop: For The 21st Century Trainer   This powerful course, By Penny L. Ittner , Donald Roberts G. & Alex F. Douds - helps organizatins develop the 21st Century trainers and consultants. Today's fast-moving, competitive environment requires training staff members to assume the role of an internal consultant who partners with managers to help them achieve organizational goals. This workshop provides fundamental consulting skills to enable people to function effectively as internal consultants. You will be able to: Use systematic consulting processes in performing as an internal consultant Build client credibility and maintain a strong client relationship throughout the consulting process Contents: General Consulting Concepts Contracting with the Client Collecting and Analyzing Data Feeding Back Organizational Data Implementing Change Evaluating Consulting Projects Ending/Extending Consultant Contracts. Instructor's Guide (250 pp /3-ring binder) /$99.95 Participant Coursebooks at $50 Each

Establishing the Value of Training with Disk Template $79.95   As corporate budgets get tighter and tighter, managers are demanding that expenditures on training be fiscally justified. Trainers are being asked to build a business case for making training investments, and they are being required to determine what those investments yield. 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. Includes PC compatible spreadsheets for determining return on investment-just plug in your numbers and print! 95 pp/ 3-ring binder with disk /Code...EVT/ $79.95

Creative Training Techniques Handbook: A Classic in a New Edition - Best Seller   This key resource for all training professionals has been carefully revised and updated. The focus continues to be on delivering results, not just training. All the basics are covered—how to tap into learners’ motivation, customizing for your audience, great presentation techniques, and creative activities that you can use. New in the third edition: training as a process, not an event, five alternative solutions to performance problems, creating compelling, high impact visuals, five key questions to ask before implementing e-Learning, three reasons why assessment is key, seven questions to answer before using instrumented learning. Chapter 1: Creative Genesis; The Origin and Foundation of Creative Training Techniques Chapter 2: Presentation Preparation; How to Get Rave Reviews and Results Before You Open Your Mouth Chapter 3: Learner Motivation; Making Sure the Audience Keeps Learning After You’ve Finished Teaching Chapter 4: Visual Aids; How to Keep Their Attention When You Absolutely Have to Talk Chapter 5: Group Involvement; There’s More to Teaching Than Talking to Them Chapter 6: Creative Materials; Projects, Case Studies and Role Plays That Encourage Students to Learn from Each Other and Their Shared Life Experiences Chapter 7: Creating Effective Resource Materials; Materials That Put the Need to Know, Nice to Know, and How to Find at People’s Fingertips Chapter 8: Presentation Techniques; How to Build and Deliver Powerful Presentations Chapter 9: Customizing Training; Getting Your Needs Met Outside and Inside Your Organization; Chapter 10: Closing the Circle; Putting It All Together: Some Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Potpourri; Appendix 2: Graphics; Appendix 3: Sources; Appendix 4: Activity Guide Sheets; Appendix 5: Overhead Transparencies 248 pp/ Hardcover/ $49.95

The ASTD Reference Guide to Workplace Learning and Performance $89.95   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, and to provide readers with the resources for enacting those roles and demonstrating those competencies. This book provides background information on the WLP field and guides the reader to many references of the literature of the WLP field. Those interested in professional WLP work will find this book both useful as a desk reference and as a broad introduction to the field. While, Academicians will find this book suitable as a textbook for courses in WLP. 1200 pp/ Hardcover, 2 Volumes/ $89.95

Flip Chart Magic: Learn how to build and use effective flip charts for training and presentations Flip Chart Magic takes you step-by-step through the process of building and using effective flip charts in training sessions. Divided into three sections with color coded pages (Need to Know / Nice to Know / Where to Find), the book comes with its own set of flip chart markers so that you can immediately begin applying the concepts and principles presented. Flip Chart Magic is literally "A Seminar In A Book!" The front half of the book is a more basic course and the back half of the book is a more advanced course on the subject of effective flip chart use. Flip Chart Magic also contains a "Bonus Section" with seventeen transparency masters for combining the overhead projector with the flip chart to increase its effectiveness even more! Includes a Mr. Sketch® Scented Marker four-pack, with markers in red, green, blue, and yellow. Order Now $39.95

The Strategic Development of Talent - Moving Beyond HRD By William J. Rothwell, Ph.D. , H.C. Kazanas Completely updated and revised, the latest edition of the classic book used around the world provides valuable insight to help you develop a comprehensive and unified plan for learning in your organization. The Strategic Development of Talent moves beyond HRD to apply the principles of strategic business planning to talent management, knowledge management and workplace learning, and it has been retitled to underscore this emphasis. Anyone who wishes to use talent to support organizational strategy—including CEOs, operating managers, and HR, HRD and WLP practitioners—will find this text both informative and practical. You’ll learn how to: Develop a vision for talent development Formulate a purpose or mission Analyze present strengths and weaknesses and future threats and opportunities Assess needs Benefit from environmental scanning Choose and implement a strategy Evaluate the overall effort The Strategic Development of Talent includes dozens of exhibits, a template to guide you through the process and a self-assessment instrument. $49.95

Training Professionals' Web Design Toolkit   If you want to design your own professional, dynamic Website to support training and performance in your organization, this is the resource you need. The practical, hands-on resource for training professionals builds your skills one step at a time, using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003—the web creation and management program. Even novice web designers can complete a project within a few hours. Quickly and easily advance your web design expertise. In six chapters, Training Professionals’ Web Design Toolkit walks you through the steps to creating a web-based, performance improvement project ready for use on the World Wide Web (WWW). Working at your own pace, you’ll master the core skills needed to construct a new site, create survey forms using ASP and HTML, create performance evaluation forms with interactive buttons and popup windows, set up database search capabilities, use themes and other edit tools, and more. As you finish each chapter, you’ll publish your website from your local computer to a web server and launch your website on the WWW. It couldn’t be easier—or faster. User-friendly features include: Realistic scenarios at the start of each chapter; The Show-Tell-Do-Check approach to learning; Helpful screen shots; Detailed step-by-step directions; Highlighted additional explanations Code: HR-TPWD $95.00

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Train-the-Trainer Workshop - Best Seller   This proven workshop is for the non-professional trainer who must develop and conduct training sessions on occasion. As jobs change and re-training is needed at an increasing rate, more and more managers and team leaders are being called upon to do training that was formerly done by experienced trainers. Revised edition includes: Completely new chapter on evaluating training An inventory to assess a participants' learning styles 62 additional overhead transparency masters Updated case studies. Contents: Using Adult Learning Principles Analyzing Training Requirements Developing Learning Objectives Selecting Training Methods Developing and Using Training Aids Developing a Training Plan Using Basic Facilitation Skills Handling Problem Situations Practice Training (Delivery) Using Your Training Skills Evaluating Training. Instructor's Guide with One Participant Workbook $149.95 Additional Participant Coursebooks Each $49.95

Training Clips with CD-ROM $99.95   Training Clips delivers 150 Reproducible Handouts, Discussion Starters…and More... This valuable collection 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. It also includes a 350 pages of these materials in a print format, fully reproducible to distribute to trainees. 350 pp/ 3-ring binder with CD-ROM/ Code...TC/ $99.95

The New Fieldbook for Trainers: Tips, Tools, and Techniques $89.95   This innovative manual 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. Selected Contents: Training Principles and Methods Involving Participants Processing Learning Classroom Management Facilitating Meetings Trainer Development Training Instruments Training Needs Assessment Team Commitment The Focus Group Sensing Scale Success Practices Problem Solving Tools: A Self Assessment High-Involvement Learning Activities Energizers Communications Problem Solving Teams High-Involvement Training Designs Principles of Adult Learning and Course Design Course-Design Resource Worksheet Training for Trainers Effective Presentation Skills Strategic Interventions Jones' Intervention Cube Team Development Models Training as a Strategic Intervention Evaluating Training Sessions. 364 pages/ 3-ring binder with diskette (files on diskette are in Microsoft Word 7.0 format and PowerPoint 7.0 for Windows) /Code:0000NFT/ $89.95

Computerized Job Aids for Trainers: Instructional Design Made Easy   Need a new format for a lesson plan or a better way to assess your training needs? Why reinvent the wheel? Save time with this collection of fully reproducible and customizable resources! The disk contains 32 templates to simplify your work in each phase of the instructional systems design process. The loose-leaf manual includes another 35 job aids as well as printouts of all of the templates from the disk. The manual also includes advice and timesaving shortcuts to use during the ISD process, and tips for customizing the templates to meet your unique training needs. This product is the culmination of 20 years of experience in all facets of instructional systems design(analysis, design, development, delivery, and evaluation) and is sure to add a professional look to your training materials. Templates and job aids are included for: Needs assessment surveys Course design documents Lesson plans Evaluation instruments... and more. 108 pp/ Binder with disk/ MS Word / $99.95

Twenty Reproducible Assessment Instruments   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 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. The 20 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 120 pp/ 3-ring binder/ Code...20RAI/ $99.95

Facilitation Skills Workshop Template in Word Files - Best Seller   This customizable workshop Template is designed for employees in the organization who are responsible for facilitating group discussions or meetings. All the information and exercises can be easily applied to work-related situations. Facilitation Skills is designed to be facilitated in up to two-days, or if you prefer, in a series of short-term meetings. Participants will learn to Identify the key behaviors to be an effective facilitator Focus on the structure of the session and not on the content Create goals and expectations with internal client contracts Develop the agenda, meeting structure and process in advance to maximize participation and results Determine their level of empowerment prior to facilitating Use their questioning and listening skills as a facilitator to keep the process moving in a positive direction Close meetings with group commitment for future actions. Skills covered include: Identifying Desirable Facilitating Behaviors Managing Structure, Not Content Developing "Client" Contracts Understanding the Four Key Criteria to "Client" Contracts Developing the Structure and Process for your Meeting Clarifying the Facilitator's Level of Empowerment Using the Four Key Skills to Effective Facilitation Encouraging Participation Through Questions Using Key Listening Skills and Avoiding Barriers Identifying Blocks to Successful Performance. Using the power of Microsoft Word, you can modify, change, edit, delete, import, export, copy, paste, add color, logos, clip art, fonts, etc., to this program, just as you would any Word document! Facilitation Skills Workshop Template in Word/ $179.95

Trainer Games in Action: A Guide to Integrating Experiential Learning Into Your Existing Programs   Want to use games in training? See this two-video-set first. Most trainers enjoy learning how to incorporate games and activities into their curriculum; however, many are limited to activities they have experienced themselves. Though there are dozens of excellent game and activity books on the market, many trainers are not comfortable using an activity they have not seen or experienced before. Trainer Games in Action, Volume One & Two fills this gap between written instructions and participation in a workshop. In these videos you will see us introduce the activity, lead a group through the exercise, debrief the experience and then give a few trainer tips for each exercise. Our purpose is to show you one way that the games can be presented and used to help you teach your content. You can adapt and change the activities to meet your needs and the needs of your learners. We believe in the power of experiential learning and understand that games and activities are only one piece of that process! The most important part is the processing time which allows the learner to reflect on what happened, recognize patterns and apply the learning to other situations. Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle is a good tool to use to guide that process. You will find this video tape useful in helping you create powerful learning opportunities! Volume 1 Activities: Expression Cards — Icebreaker Have You Ever — Energizer Group Juggle — Problem solving activity Magic Carpet Ride — Problem solving activity Mousetraps — Trust activity and cooperation Team Mousetraps — Trust activity Breathlessly Building — Change management Volume 2 Activities: Peek-A-Who? — Icebreaker Across the Great Divide — Problem solving activity Wingtips — Problem solving activity Line-Ups — Communication activity Keypad — Process improvement activity Hula Hover — Problem solving activity Each video is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes and shows the introduction from the facilitator, the activity, and then the processing of the activity. Order Trainer Games in Action Volumes 1&2 Pack $79.00

The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning Manual   The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning uses the Systems Thinking ApproachTM to guide transformation change in our personal lives and organizations. Systems Thinking was first popularized in 1990 by Peter Senge with his best-selling book, The Fifth Discipline. Unlike Analytical Thinking where the parts are primary and the whole is secondary, in Systems Thinking, the whole is primary and the parts are secondary. The Complete Guide to Systems Learning $99.00

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