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3341. |  Working GlobeSmart: Twelve People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders By: Ernest Gundling Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 01-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 23-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Working GlobeSmart: Twelve People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders
Rich in examples--from Italy to India, Turkey to Thailand--Working GlobeSmart bridges the gap between what we know about business success and what we know about differences in values, abilities and behavioral characteristics across various cultural dimensions.
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3342. |  By: Robert Carleton Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
Here is an effective, step-by-step plan for improving performance on a large-scale and getting the results and payoffs you desire. If you have a group, a group of groups or an entire organization that needs an intervention, you'll find this book invaluable. Implementation and Management of Performance Improvement Plans begins in the middle – in the implementation phase of performance improvement plans rather than the design or planning phases. This is because, according to the author, implementation is where something useful happens ... or doesn't. Performance improvement aimed at...
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3343. |  Compendium of Icebreakers Volume 2 Connections: 125 Activities for Faultless Training By: Lois B. Hart Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Compendium of Icebreakers Volume 2 Connections: 125 Activities for Faultless Training
Are you maximizing every opportunity to connect with participants before, during and after training? This is 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 * Making Contact Before the Workshop includes activities a trainer can do after the participants are identified or selected * Saying Hello at the Beginning of the Workshop presents activities for introducing the trainer, clarifying objectives and expectations, helping participants get better acquainted and...
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3344. |  Evaluating Impact: Evaluation and Continual Improvement for Performance Improvement Practitioners By: Ingrid Guerra-López Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Evaluating Impact: Evaluation and Continual Improvement for Performance Improvement Practitioners
Evaluation takes enormous time, money and resources. So, why do we go through all the trouble? Because the ultimate goal is to create positive change—and that's where this practical book comes in. Evaluating Impact uses a common-sense approach to conducting data-driven evaluations that are simple and efficient—and deliver the improved and measurable performance you want. This is the sixth in the Defining and Delivering Successful Professional Practice—HPT in Action series of six books on defining and delivering measurable performance improvement. Learn how to let the evaluation purpose...
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3345. |  By: Ryan Watkins Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
At the end of the day, our jobs are all about results. The desire to achieve useful results should guide your decisions on a daily basis. This book's unique Performance by Design approach and framework will systematically walk you through the processes, procedures, tools and techniques that are most valuable in creating performance systems that achieve results. In eight chapters, the book sequentially describes each step in the Performance by Design framework. This is the third of six books in the new Defining and Delivering Successful Professional Practice Series designed to define and...
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3346. |  Guaranteeing Performance Improvement: A Purely Practical Positive Approach By: Richard F. Gerson Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Guaranteeing Performance Improvement: A Purely Practical Positive Approach
Everybody wants to get better at what they do – or at least they should want to. The problem is, not everyone knows exactly how to do this – achieve measurable and lasting performance improvement. This book will help people and organizations achieve those desired results by helping them focus on a positive approach to what makes the performer tick. The book's seven chapters will teach you: How to use sports and performance psychology to generate improvements; Why individual performance patterns are important; How motivation and performer psychology affect improvement; How emotional...
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3347. |  The Front Line Guide to Building High Performance Teams By: Woodrow H. Sears Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Front Line Guide to Building High Performance Teams
In life, there are a handful of opportunities that allow us to significantly and directly impact the lives of others in a positive way. Leading a high-performance team is one of the most exciting – people who participate in a high-energy, can-do organization never forget it. In Front Line Guide to Building High Performance Teams, you'll learn there is a time and place for team building – and there are times when money spent on team building is wasted. This guide points out the differences and suggests strategies any manager can use to improve the collective performance of workers and...
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3348. |  The Front Line Guide to Thinking Clearly By: Woodrow H. Sears Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Front Line Guide to Thinking Clearly
Thinking clearly is a skill in great demand and the ticket to higher-level jobs. Now you have a user-friendly manual that will help you model the behavior and teach your employees to think clearly – a profound gift that they can use in all aspects of their lives. Front Line Guide to Thinking Clearly is one of the few books to introduce the concept of clear thinking in a way people can understand and do it. The book focuses on thinking clearly along with solving problems and making decisions – three competencies identified in a massive research effort as skills that equip managers for...
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3349. |  The Front Line Guide to Creating a Winning Management Style By: Woodrow H. Sears Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Front Line Guide to Creating a Winning Management Style
You need – and want – to change your management style. So, how do you get started? With Front Line Guide to Creating a Winning Management Style – it puts the power to become the kind of exemplary leader you want to be in your hands. In 13 chapters, the book describes how you can change your current set of patterned behaviors so you can become not less predictable, but more consistent. This book will reassure you that creating a winning management style is well within your capability. It presents the concept of "management style" as a set of attributes you can identify, observe and...
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3350. |  The Front Line Guide to Mastering the Manager's Job By: Woodrow H. Sears Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Front Line Guide to Mastering the Manager's Job
Do you really understand what management is – and what managers are supposed to do – in today's increasingly complex business environment? You will after you read this book. It offers clear advice on the roles and responsibilities managers now must juggle simultaneously and distills it into wisdom any manager can apply independently at any time. In eight chapters, the author identifies and defines the essentials of the job of manager. The suggestions offered in this handy guide include: Becoming inclusive, providing growth opportunities and pushing people to take them, setting targets and...
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3351. |  Achieving High Performance: A Research-based Practical Approach By: Richard F. Gerson Ph.D, CPT Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Achieving High Performance: A Research-based Practical Approach
Achieving High Performance describes the secrets of high performance and performance motivation, and shows readers how to motivate themselves, as well as others, to achieve high performance. Dr. Gerson provides several models, tools, and job aids to help readers understand themselves better, identify the requirements for high performance, and figure out the best and fastest ways to achieve those performance levels. Achieving High Performance also introduces several new concepts, such as Mega, Macro, and Micro levels of achievement; goal setting using SMARTER objectives; and the TOPS...
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3352. |  101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual Teams By: Ollie Malone Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual Teams
These 101 actions will help you manage, lead, or participate in a virtual team; whatever your role you will gain ideas, practices, and suggestions that will enable you to be more successful. Build your case for virtual teams...structure the best possible arrangement for these teams...manage the people and tools for these teams productively. These 101 actions will help you manage, lead, or participate in a virtual team; whatever your role you will gain ideas, practices, and suggestions that will enable you to be more successful. From strategy and structure to technology and systems, it's...
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3353. |  Job Aids for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Job and Task Aids By: Charlotte Long Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Job Aids for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Job and Task Aids
Your new trainers don't know how to properly operate the VCR and monitor . . . your employees don't know how to use a preferred conference call vendor . . . your middle managers fail to consistently report their employees' overtime. Tired of explaining things over and over? Save time, frustration and money—and improve performance—by creating your own task aids. This self-study guide will show you how to create checklists, lists of steps, forms, worksheets, decision tables, flowcharts—all kinds of task aids to help employees take corrective action and perform their jobs. When you follow the...
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3354. |  50 Activities for Team Building, Volume I By: Glenn M. Parker; Richard P. Kropp Jr. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1992 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Team Building, Volume I
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials. Create high performance teams with these collections of fully reproducible activities. All activities employ the principle of "learning by doing" to ensure that the skills the participants learn can be applied to real work situations. Volume 1 contains creative training activities that focus on the building blocks for teams, such as communication, leadership, conflict resolution, and decision making. Volume 2 offers 50 additional activities for team...
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3355. |  By: Richard Bellingham Ed.D.; Julie Meek DNS Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2001 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
The quality of life in organizations is deteriorating. People don't have a sense that their work has meaning. Cynicism reigns. People don't want to live and work in this way and organizations don't function optimally when they do. Leadership will need to attend to our source of enthusiasm and inspiration—our soul. A new style of leadership is required, one that makes collaboration, empowerment, and innovation possible. This guide provides methods for engaging in the transformational process.It contains practical ways to measure healthy communities, healthy people, and quality of work...
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3356. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X By: Bruce Tulgan Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X
Based on Bruce Tulgan's classic study of Generation X in the workplace, Managing Generation X, as well as his ongoing research into the working lives of people born after 1963, The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X is a concise, hands-on guide that will enable managers to recruit, train, motivate, develop, and retain the best and brightest among Generation X employees. Learn from the first-hand stories of X'ers describing their own positive and negative work experiences with management. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Generation X explains in simple terms what makes Gen X employees...
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3357. |  Session Builders Series 300: 50 Exercises for Teams By: TRC Interactive, Inc. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Session Builders Series 300: 50 Exercises for Teams
Getting a team to gel, produce and be successful is never easy. Invariably, you'll have team members who are inflexible or oversensitive ... talk too much or stay silent ... point fingers or stir up conflict. These 50 exercises are a terrific way to confront these and other issues you may be facing as a team leader. And you can implement any and all of them quickly, without a big budget and with little or no training experience.
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3358. |  Session Builders Series 200: 60 Exercises for Management and Supervisory Training By: TRC Interactive, Inc. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Session Builders Series 200: 60 Exercises for Management and Supervisory Training
Those in your organization who've earned the title of "manager" or "supervisor" certainly have their hands full. This practical resource shows you how to develop the most critical skills and competencies they need to succeed through 60 powerful exercises. Engage learners in this experiential learning and you'll see self-awareness and self-confidence increase dramatically.
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3359. |  The Trusted Leader: Understanding the Trust Triangle By: Steve Gladis Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Trusted Leader: Understanding the Trust Triangle
A leadership fable, The Trusted Leader is the story of a new young leader, Carlos Lopez, who gets promoted to supervise his peers. He gets conflicting advice from his boss about how to take charge, and it backfires. Confused, Carlos seeks out the best leader he's ever known, Coach Jack Dempsey. The two agree to meet regularly talk about leadership at a local restaurant. The Coach teaches Carlos about how to lead, while Carlos and the Coach learn about each other's secret, sad, but ultimately formative pasts. Finally, the Coach teaches Carlos about the Trust Triangle—the critical key to...
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3360. |  Session Builders Series 100: 60 Exercises for Management and Supervisory Training By: TRC Interactive, Inc. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Session Builders Series 100: 60 Exercises for Management and Supervisory Training
Session Builders Series 100 covers over 20 of the most important management and supervisory skills, from active listening to time management.With more than 200 exercise options and variations you will always have a choice of realistic, easy-to-use designs that will add something extra to your training programs. Each Session Builder exercise is short, simple to run and debrief. The exercises are provided in a completely detailed manner, so that there are no surprises for the end-user at any point in the training process.
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