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3461. |  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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3462. |  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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3463. |  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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3464. |  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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3465. |  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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3466. |  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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3467. |  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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3468. |  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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3469. |  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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3470. |  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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3471. |  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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3472. |  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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3473. |  Toward Human Emergence: A Human Resource Philosophy for the Future By: Philip Robert Harris Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Toward Human Emergence: A Human Resource Philosophy for the Future
Toward Human Emergence is a helpful and positive analysis from a behavioral science viewpoint of various stages in our long journey from hunter-gathers and agriculturalists, to industrialists and technological advances, knowledge workers. It examines the why, what, and how for perfecting human endeavor within a global society characterized technological advances, knowledge expansion, and economic turmoil. This mind-stimulating volume offers a hopeful vision of humanity, so HRD practitioners and educators may inspire learners to utilize today's opportunities for improving the human...
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3474. |  Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology By: Yonnie Chyung Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology
Whether you're studying or practicing in the fields of instructional technology and human performance technology, you need a foundation of knowledge to advance your career. Foundations of Instructional and Performance Technology will provide you with an overview of principles and practices that is clear and easy-to-understand. This new resource does not offer an exhaustive list of topics. Rather the author selected topics with those fairly new to the field in mind and synthesized a wealth of information from many different sources into one concise text. The book starts with a focus on...
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3475. |  By: Anthony Landale; Mica Douglas Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-DEC-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
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. The Fast Facilitator shows the difference facilitation skills can make in helping people learn, be more self-aware, be more flexible in their thinking and behavior and build their self-confidence. The manual is organized into three parts covering a huge amount of groundwork: Essential facilitation, group and team...
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3476. |  The Executive Athlete: How Sport Psychology Helps Business People Become World-Class Performers By: Richard F. Gerson Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Executive Athlete: How Sport Psychology Helps Business People Become World-Class Performers
"Executive athletes" practice and compete, win some and lose some. Then they do it all over again – just like athletes. The Executive Athlete is all about the similarities between executives who want to achieve high levels of performance and athletes who play at the top of their game. Dr. Gerson has spent years coaching, testing and training business people to use sport psychology to better their performances. He's found you get measurable performance improvements if you treat and train business people like athletes. He takes you inside the minds of athletes and shows you how they mentally...
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3477. |  Compendium of Icebreakers Volume 3: Beginnings and Endings By: Michèlle Barca; Kate Cobb Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Compendium of Icebreakers Volume 3: Beginnings and Endings
How you begin and end a training course is vital and shouldn't be left to chance. This manual introduces easy-to-use "openings" and "closings" that can increase the cohesiveness of your group, create a relaxed atmosphere and enhance the learning experience – whether you are new to this type of exercise or not. The book contains 70 icebreakers, energizers and other exercises the authors have tested on the training front lines – including 40 "beginnings" and 30 "endings." Each exercise includes these at-a-glance sections: Content indicates the type of group the exercise is useful for;...
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3478. |  Performance Analysis: Knowing What to Do and How By: Dale Brethrower Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Performance Analysis: Knowing What to Do and How
In Performance Analysis: Knowing What to Do and When, Dr. Dale Brethower takes a fresh look at finding out what will work to change and improve performance. The book presents a systems thinking approach to improving performance and contains tools for creating interventions that will be implemented, will have a favorable impact and can be maintained and continually improved. You'll learn how to clarify which direction to go, determine what intervention will work and with whom and identify the right mix of interventions. You'll examine how to analyze critical business, process and job...
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3479. |  The Front Line Guide to Communicating with Employees 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 Communicating with Employees
Here is a useful guide to communicating with employees, co-workers and bosses – packed with advice for improving the way you communicate throughout your professional and personal activities. If you really want to become a good communicator, you can do it – with this guide. And the payoff will be immediate and obvious. Written for new managers but full of insight for veterans as well, this book focuses on the communication abilities, skills and practices commonly associated with highly effective leaders. You'll learn good managers must go beyond simply ordering people around. They must make...
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3480. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Training By: Shawn Doyle Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Training
Learn everything you need to know as a leader about training – and how to use it to get results. If you're not satisfied with current levels of performance and want to turn training into a major contributor to the bottom line, this pocket-size guide will be invaluable. A simple and quick read, the book contains seven chapters that cover: The benefits of training to the organization and its customers; What is training and when is it needed; Training basics; Types of training; Sources of training delivery; Working with the training team; The future of training and how to keep up.
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