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3501. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment By: Terry L. Fitzwater Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1998 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment
Learn how to protect your employees as well as your company from sexual harassment. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment approaches the issue globally, from creating policy statements on sexual harassment and conducting employee audits to determine vulnerabilities (and appropriate cures), to the five A's of understanding, to handling and dealing with stereotypes and biases. The pocket guide also covers the investigation process and how to properly document incidents; it also includes exercises to instill ownership and facilitate understanding among employees to...
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3502. |  Training Clips: 150 Reproducible Handouts, Discussion Starters, and Job Aids By: Mike Lynch; Harvey Lifton Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1998 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Training Clips: 150 Reproducible Handouts, Discussion Starters, and Job Aids
Contains 150 reproducible, insightful short pieces on a wide range of management issues and training topics. A great resource for trainers to refer to time and again.
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3503. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Team Sponsorship By: Sara Pope Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1998 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Team Sponsorship
Are you responsible for starting new teams, providing direction, allocating resources, removing roadblocks, and serving as an all-around champion for high-performance work teams? This practical, step-by-step guide is for you! Not only does this pocket reference emphasize the importance of turning slogans and talk into action, it tells how to do it. You'll get helpful guidelines for turning the principles of team management into day-to-day actions. Each chapter begins with a set of questions that the sponsor must ask before starting any team. The answers to these questions provide the...
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3504. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Performance Management By: Sharon G. Fisher Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Performance Management
Every company wants and needs productive, skilled employees. Investing in a work force that can help your business keep pace with the competition may be the most important strategic decision you make. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Performance Management clearly spells out the specific steps a manager can take to ensure improved performance organization-wide. It presents a systems approach to performance enhancement and includes tools for determining current performance levels and establishing desired performance levels. Learn how to analyze performance, pinpoint gaps in performance and...
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3505. |  Faultless Facilitation: The New Complete Resource Guide for Team Leaders and Facilitators By: Lois Hart Ed.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1996 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Faultless Facilitation: The New Complete Resource Guide for Team Leaders and Facilitators
Teach team leaders and group facilitators the key skills for leading productive team meetings. This workshop contains everything you need to teach others how to facilitate; it comes complete with background material for the trainer and participants, and handouts for evaluation. The Instructor's Manual offers in-class learning activities and optional training designs (1-, 2-, 3-, or 5-day) to go with the Resource Guide. The Instructor's Manual explains how to plan, run, and evaluate skill-based training for inexperienced facilitators. The Resource Guide includes "how to's" on leading groups...
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3506. |  Faultless Facilitation: Instructor's Manual for Facilitation Training By: Lois B. Hart Ed.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1996 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Faultless Facilitation: Instructor's Manual for Facilitation Training
This instructors manual for the Faultless facilitation program offers 48 in-class learning activities and optional training designs to go with the best-selling Faultless Facilitation Resource Guide. The instructors manual lays out exactly how to plan, run, and evaluate skill-based training for inexperienced facilitators.
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3507. |  50 Activities for Team Building, Volume II By: Mike Woodcock Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1989 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Team Building, Volume II
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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3508. |  The Encyclopedia of Games for Trainers By: Andy Kirby Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1992 Insert Date: 20-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Encyclopedia of Games for Trainers
Use these participative training techniques to rejuvenate, challenge, and motivate participants. 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. In addition to providing you with a substantial stock of games, the manual includes an in-depth discussion of the unique dimension that well-presented games add to a training session. It covers proper preparation for the use of games in training, techniques for providing feedback to participants, and methods for choosing a game that...
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3509. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide to Innovation By: Dr. Richard Brynteson Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide to Innovation
Innovation is necessary – for your survival and your organization's. But the process is fraught with obstacles. How can you keep yourself and your team moving forward? You start with this how-to guide to innovation written specifically for today's busy manager. This quick-read is full of practical, easy-to-implement techniques that will help you avoid the unending details and stops and starts, distractions that cause your focus to shift, false starts and market shifts that lead you down the wrong path and steep learning curves that slow the process down.
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3510. |  50 Activities for Developing Critical Thinking Skills By: Dr. Marlene Caroselli Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Developing Critical Thinking Skills
50 Activities for Developing Critical Thinking Skills contains 50 fully reproducible training activities to develop quick thinking, creative thinking and analytical thinking skills. This compendium of activities will add real value to your training by taking critical thinking skills out of the box and into the workplace. Learners will sharpen their critical thinking skills and develop a thought process that are creative, accurate, and assumption-free.
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3511. |  50 Activities for Achieving Cultural Competence By: Jonamay Lambert; Selma Myers; George Simons Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Achieving Cultural Competence
An outstanding source for training activties relating to employee empowerment. Today most executives and managers need to have an international business and cross-cultural perspective. 50 Activities for Achieving Cultural Competence includes 50 training activities and self-development exercises to prepare your personnel for international assignments and develop better understanding of cross-cultural communication. Compiled by a team of experts from around the world, these ready-to-use activities have been tested and refined for a wide variety of international businesses and organizations....
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3512. |  50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises By: Peter R. Garber Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Communications Activities, Icebreakers, and Exercises
Have fun presenting these activities and build your employees' communication skills in just minutes. Communication plays such a big part in our lives today. Yet sometimes we get busy and forget just how important communication is to our success, relationships and happiness. 50 Communication Activities, Icebreakers and Activities is a great way to: Increase participants' awareness of how they communicate; Help them to build expertise in a variety of essential skills and competencies; Prepare them to deal effectively with the many types of communication challenges they face every day. Each...
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3513. |  25 Legendary Leadership Activities By: Peter R. Garber Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 25 Legendary Leadership Activities
Find the legendary leader inside you! What is "legendary leadership"? It can be defined simply as leadership that is remembered. These 25 activities are designed to ensure you are remembered as a good – or even great – leader. The number of people in the group you lead or the size of your organization doesn't matter. The book is organized around the qualities and abilities that enable a leader to effectively lead a few people … a large organization … or even a nation. Whether you are a new or experienced leader, you will find development activities that cover a wide variety of skills that...
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3514. |  50 Activities for Employee Engagement By: Peter R. Garber Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Employee Engagement
This collection of skill-building activities will help you understand what employee engagement really means, how it can help your organization and how to create and maintain an engaged workforce. Managers, supervisors and even engaged employees will gain the perspective and insight necessary to make this exciting cultural transition successfully. You'll find activities to help you define employee engagement, measure the current level of engagement in your organization and understand critical underlying principles. Move on to the activities on overcoming obstacles, motivating engaged...
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3515. |  50 Training Activities for Administrative, Secretarial, and Support Staff By: Elizabeth Sanson; Christine Newton Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JUL-2007 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Training Activities for Administrative, Secretarial, and Support Staff
This manual of activities is written for support staff – the unsung heroes and heroines of organizations who often are the ones for whom there is no training budget. Or who can not be spared from their work to spend time in training. The book presents a wide range of activities and handouts to help teach and apply the most critical competences for administrative, secretarial and support professionals. Titles include: Delivering Bad News, Getting My Point Across, Proud to Be Part of the Team and Getting Organized. It's all here … the activity description, target group, objectives, number of...
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3516. |  The Manager's Pocket Guide® to Downsizing with Confidence By: Richard S. Deems Ph.D.; Terri Deems Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JUN-2007 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Manager's Pocket Guide® to Downsizing with Confidence
Downsizings don't have to leave the exiting person devastated, the remaining people angry, the decision-makers stressed or the company open to litigation. With the Manager's Pocket Guide® to Downsizing with Confidence, you have a practical guide to planning and conducting a downsizing the right way so all the people involved come out ahead. Get straightforward answers to the 12 most often asked questions about downsizing: Why should we worry?; What are our real needs?; How much planning time do we really need?; How do we select who goes?; What can we do to show that we've been fair?; How –...
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3517. |  50 Activities for Performance Appraisal Training By: Wendy Denham; Jane Jestico Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2008 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Performance Appraisal Training
Teaching employees how to deliver effective performance appraisals will pay big dividends in your organization. But, too often, employees perceive the training as uninteresting – even boring. Here's a terrific resource full of hands-on exercises that will make training in this vital area enjoyable and extremely motivating. Every employee – regardless of how experienced they are in appraisals – will be stimulated by learning how to question, listen, be objective, give feedback, communicate and manage the process. Each activity is ready-to-use and includes a description, when to use it,...
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3518. |  50 Activities for Diversity Training By: Jonamay Lambert Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1994 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Activities for Diversity Training
Part of our best-selling 50 Activities series! Comes complete with learning objectives, facilitator guidance, and reproducible materials.
Training Objectives:
Illustrate how cultural differences may impact behavior
Increase awareness of the impact of culture in the workplace
Demonstrate skills for managing a culturally diverse workplace
Address issues of gender in the workplace.
Training Methods:
Icebreakers
Participative exercises
Role-plays
Mini case studies.
Activities take 15 to 45 minutes.
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3519. |  50 Case Studies for Management and Supervisory Training By: Alan Clardy Ph.D. Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-1994 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Case Studies for Management and Supervisory Training
Managers and supervisors will sharpen their analytical and decision-making skills with this new collection of fully reproducible case studies. Based on actual, real-life situations, these exercises prepare supervisors and team leaders for the challenging problems they face in today's complex workplace.
Each case study includes:
Summary of the case
Discussion questions that evoke thought and analysis
Suggested solutions to the problems presented.
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3520. |  25 Sales Strategies and Activities By: Peter R. Garber Publisher: HRD Press Publication Date: 01-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 25 Sales Strategies and Activities
Is your sales team stuck in a rut? Would you like to get them fired up about bringing in new customers and selling more? 25 Sales Strategies and Activities is a unique training and development tool designed to teach sales professionals how and when to use a variety of proven sales strategies. The guide presents 25 strategies and activities in terms of two critical selling factors: Relationships – how the customer perceives you as a supplier based on past experience and interactions; Performance – what you as a supplier actually deliver to the customer. A diagnostic sales strategy matrix...
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