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3401. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Meetings By: Steve Kaye Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1998 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Meetings
A very practical and informative title from the Managers Pocket Guide series. Learn easy, proven techniques that keep you in control of your meetings. This complete guide to effective meetings will show you how to prepare for success and end with results. It includes structured activities that keep everyone focused on your issues, practical techniques for dealing with unproductive participants, and essential considerations for high tech meetings. If you hold meetings, this book is a must!
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3402. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Documenting Employee Performance By: Terry L. Fitzwater Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1998 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Documenting Employee Performance
This guide will help you document and change unwanted work behaviors before they become issues for termination. It includes information on a four-step progressive discipline process and how to apply it; clarifying gaps in execution vs. gaps in knowledge; behavior modification through corrective action; a process for documenting performance issues; and a look at the legal framework surrounding discipline. This guide provide a quick and valuable source for any manager or HR professional. If you are seeking an easy to read and comprehensive source for managing downsizing - this is it.
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3403. |  50 Activities for Developing Leaders By: Lois B. Hart Ed.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1995 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing Leaders
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials. Activities take 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Training Objectives:
Develop key leadership skills
Recognize and address skills needing further development
Identify ability to take risks and initiate change
Build strategies for personal development
Encourage creativity to enhance visioning skills.
Training Methods:
Written exercises
Group exercises
Closure activities
Role-plays
Self-assessments.
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3404. |  50 Activities for Developing Supervisory Skills By: Ian Nicholls Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1993 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing Supervisory Skills
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials.
Training Objectives:
Define the role of the supervisor
Develop key supervisory skills, including planning, organizing, and controlling
Improve communication skills
Develop skills for running effective meetings.
Training Methods:
Brainstorming sessions
Case studies
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3405. |  50 Activities for Developing People Skills By: Jaqueline Stewart; David Couper Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing People Skills
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials.
Training Objectives:
Improve interpersonal skills
Enhance management performance
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3406. |  50 Activities for Sales Training By: Phillip Faris Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1993 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Sales Training
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials. Novice and experienced salespeople alike will benefit from these activities that 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. All of the necessary materials are provided for you to effortlessly implement the activities; they come complete with trainer's notes, feedback instruments, exercises,...
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3407. |  50 Activities for Coaching/Mentoring By: Donna Berry; Charles Cadwell; Joe Fehrmann Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1993 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Coaching/Mentoring
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials.
Training Objectives:
Introduce mentoring concepts and peer guidance techniques
Develop skills to express performance improvement goals clearly
Create open, trusting relationships
Refine managers' skills in providing constructive feedback.
Training Methods:
Team games
Group discussions
Icebreakers
Role-plays
Questionnaires and written exercises.
Most of the activities take 1 hour or less, 6 take between 1 and 2...
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3408. |  A Compendium of Icebreakers, Energizers and Introductions By: Andy Kirby Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1992 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Compendium of Icebreakers, Energizers and Introductions
Select from 75 quick exercises to break down barriers, increase motivation, and provide the best possible start to your training program. Compiled by a team of five trainers with a wide variety of experience, the games represent a rich mixture of styles and an extensive range of approaches. There is an index of activities by objective to help you choose the most appropriate activity for your application, and fully reproducible participant materials are included to save you hours of preparation time.
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3409. |  50 Activities for Managing Stress By: Roy Bailey Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1992 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Managing Stress
Activities cover: 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.
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3410. |  50 Activities for Developing Counseling Skills in Managers By: Roy Bailey Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing Counseling Skills in Managers
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials.
raining Objectives:
Enable managers to concentrate on the personal views, feelings, and opinions of their staff
Encourage person-centered rather than role-centered management
Improve interpersonal skills
Ensure that organizational goals are achieved.
Activities:
Provide complete coverage of the four stages of counseling:
Rapport and relationship building
Challenging problems
Problem exploration and...
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3411. |  50 Activities for Developing Management Skills, Volume 2 By: Teresa Williams Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1992 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing Management Skills, Volume 2
Each volume includes carefully developed management training activities with: Training Objectives; Detailed Trainers Notes and Guidelines; Reproducible Participant Materials;Volume 2 skills focus on: Meetings; Discipline; Leadership; Providing Feedback; Volume 2 activities include: Agendas and Meetings; The Indecisive Manager; Behavior and Problem Solving; Managing at a Distance; Sharing and Explaining
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3412. |  50 Activities for Developing Management Skills, Volume 1 By: Lelslie Rae Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1990 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing Management Skills, Volume 1
With the 50 Activities for Developing Management Skills titles you will save valuable hours in researching and developing new activities. Your managers will master key skills and gain new insights from these proven, ready-to-use exercises, role-plays, and icebreakers. Volume 1 skills focus on: Interpersonal Relations; Performance Appraisal; Self-Development; Teamwork. Volume 1 activities include: Action Planning; Activity Appraisal; The In-Tray; Real Time Priorities; The Goldfish Bowl.
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3413. |  Polarity Management™: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems By: Barry Johnson PhD Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1996 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Polarity Management™: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
Some complex problems simply do not have "solutions." The key to being an effective leader is being able to recognize and manage such problems. Polarity Management presents a unique model and set of principles that will challenge you to look at situations in new ways. This is an exceptional title for use as a text in university level courses on management. Included are exercises to strengthen your skills, and case studies to help you begin applying the model to your own unsolvable problems.
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3414. |  Successful Project Management, Third Edition By: Larry Richman Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 21-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Successful Project Management, Third Edition
Successful Project Management, Third Edition, covers the fundamentals of project management, focusing on practical skills you can apply immediately to complete projects on time, on budget, and on target!
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3415. |  By: Diane Arthur Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 10-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Performance Appraisals
Learn how to make the performance appraisal process deliver maximum value to the organization.
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3416. |  First Line Supervision, Fifth Edition By: Charles M Cadwell Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 12-JAN-2006 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: First Line Supervision, Fifth Edition
Join the thousands of supervisors who have stepped up to their new roles with this self-study classic.
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3417. |  Delegating for Business Success By: Janis F Chan Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 30-JUN-2004 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Delegating for Business Success
Empower staff and the organization with savvy delegation skills for 21st-century success.
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3418. |  Fundamentals of Human Resources Management, Fourth Edition By: Diane Arthur Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fundamentals of Human Resources Management, Fourth Edition
Key tools for developing a human resources plan based on organizational needs.
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3419. |  By: Grant Mayberry Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 27-JUL-1993 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Successful Negotiating
How to achieve positive outcomes using planning and conversational techniques.
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3420. |  What Managers Do, Fourth Edition By: William R Allen; Harold L Gilmore Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 12-NOV-1993 Insert Date: 16-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What Managers Do, Fourth Edition
Techniques for better planning, organizing, directing, staffing and controlling.
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