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The
following books are recommended by marcus evans
professional trainers as further reading material
beyond their respective course documentation.
All titles are available to purchase online
in association with amazon.co.uk
TRAINING SKILLS (33 Titles)
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| 101 More Training Games |
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Gary Kroehnert
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| This collection of games for trainers and educational professional enhances simulations, role-plays and exercises for individuals and teams. Applications for the games includes icebreakers and energisers, the development and refinement of team building, communication, presentation, problem solving, learning, evaluation, and self-management skills. |
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| A Consultancy Approach for Trainers and Developers |
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Keri Phillips, Patricica Shaw
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| This edition has been written for the trainer and developer to plan their professional development. The authors describe three linked approaches to consultancy designed to help the reader undertake increasingly complex assignments. With the support of case studies, they explain what each approach involves and illustrate the problems and opportunities the trainer is likely to face. A self-development plan is contained in an appendix. |
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| Dear Trainer...: Dealing with Difficult Problems in Training |
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Sara Thorpe, Jackie Clifford
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| Using the style of correspondence between two trainers, this manual offers a perspective on how to deal with difficult training situations. The format of the book is in letters and emails written from one trainer to another - not mentor to mentee but colleague to colleague. Each communication both poses questions and offers practical solutions that are based on real-world situations. The book includes action checklists and a problem-solving matrix of solutions. |
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| Develop Your Training Skills |
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Leslie Rae
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| A guide to the essentials of training for professionals. Neither an academic textbook nor a weighty, dense handbook, the volume provides a highly practical and critical guide that should aid trainers in their day-to-day work. It features practical advice, details on all available training methods (both traditional and online), checklists, and expert dos and don'ts. |
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| Developing Effective Training Skills |
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Tony Pont
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| This work has been updated to reflect recent changes that have taken place in the field of training. It covers all the main aspects of designing, presenting and delivering a training course, with a new section on group facilitation and expanded chapters on learning theory and group management. |
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| Even More Games Trainers Play |
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Edward E. Scannell, John W. Newstrom
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| This text contains a collection of motivational activities for training situations. It includes ice-breakers, brain teasers, problem-solvers and session closers. Exercises on business topics, such as team building, quality initiatives and quality in customer service, are also included. The games have been tested by training professionals and most can be played in under 30 minutes and implemented at little or no cost. The games can be easily removed and reproduced thanks to the perforated-margin format. |
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| Freedom to Learn |
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Carl R. Rogers, H. Jerome Freiberg
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| Freedom to Learn, Third Edition is written in the first person, with two goals in mind - to aid the development of the minds of children and young persons, and to encourage the kinds of adventurous enterprises being carried out daily by dedicated, caring teachers in creative classrooms and supportive schools throughout the nation. |
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| Handbook of Training and Development |
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Steve Truelove
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| Comprising of original contributions and a selection of topic overviews, this book should prove useful to newly appointed trainers and more experienced practitioners alike. Arranged in three sections, the book deals with diagnosis - techniques of investigation and analysis, including the analysis of organizational training needs and the identification of learning blockages; implementation - writing training objectives, evaluating training, designing training and open and distance learning; and strategy - administration, national training policies and employee development. |
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| How to Conduct Training Seminars |
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Lawrence S. Mason
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| Updated and expanded to reflect the increasing use of electronics in training programme design and delivery, this text provides a source of tested principles and practices, and a complete guide to developing a fully-fledged training function in any business organization. The text shows readers how to first gain the support of management and improve the training climate, then details exactly how to organize and staff a training department, and decide when and where to go for outside help. |
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| Modeling with NLP |
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Robert B. Dilts
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| This text covers the NLP modelling process and its applications. The results define the key communication and relational skills employed by effective leaders to achieve practical results in their working reality, in order to "create a world to which people want to belong". |
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| Team Games for Trainers |
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Carolyn Nilson
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| Team-building is a fast-growing approach to human resources development and total quality management. "Team Games for Trainers" contains 100 games, exercises and activities designed to build teams, through cultural assessment, organizational change readiness, personal skill building and empowerment; to help teams function, through work definition, role requirements and evaluation; and to maintain teams, through training for nontrainers, communication, conflict management and problem solving. For ease of use, each game is self-contained and includes templates, answer sheets and clear explanations of objectives and procedures. |
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| The Big Book of Motivation Games: Quick, Fun Ways to Get People Energized |
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Robert Epstein, Jessica Rogers
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| A collection of over 40 motivational games and exercises designed for use in any organization. The games are based on a "competencies" approach to teaching motivational skills, the principle behind them being "skill, not will". They can be used to motivate the individual or the whole team. Topics include: games to overcome procrastination; games for when your energy is low; games to help you achieve personal or team goals; games for inspiring peak performance; games for salespeople; games to motivate chronic underperforming employees; and games to help you overcome anxiety and the fear of failure. |
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| The Complete Facilitator's Handbook |
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John Heron
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| Combining a strong theoretical content, including a comprehensive group dynamic theory, with an extensive repertoire for practical action the book provides the essential foundations for building effective facilitative skills that suit both a facilitator's personality and then closely match the situations they encounter. |
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| The Fifth Discipline |
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Peter M. Senge
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| The author defines five business "disciplines" which help to build "learning organizations". These companies will be the successful ones in the coming decade because of their ability to learn, to absorb new ideas, theories and practices at all employee levels and use them to competitive advantage. |
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| The Goal |
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Eliyahu Goldratt, Jeff Cox
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| This second edition of the thriller-style story of Alex Rogo's fight to save his plant has an extra 10 chapters which bring the story forward to describe Alex's transition from Plant Manager to Divisional Manager. It incorporates the business principles of the author's Theory of Constraints (TOC). |
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| The In-house Trainer as Consultant |
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Mike Saunders, Keith Holdaway
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| This work offers in-house trainers advice on how to cope with their increased consultancy roles. It uses competency objectives, theoretical models, case studies, examples and an action dossier for trainers to check their own performance. |
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| The Winning Trainer: Winning Ways to Involve People in Learning |
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Julius E. Eitington
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| This work includes ideas on how to add involvement in learning. It provides 100 ready-made handouts, learning instruments, and worksheets, model dialogues, and sample answers, and exercises, games, puzzles, and role-plays. It also covers managing diversity in the classroom, cross-gender leadership training, managing gender differences in communication styles, and cross-cultural training. |
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| Training Interventions |
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Margaret Anne Reid, Harry Barrington
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| Updated for the sixth edition, this text provides a critical overview of the national training framework and discusses the practical aspects of assessing needs, planning, implementing and evaluating training. Topics covered include: the significant emphasis on learning rather than training in today's world; the importance of role management; an analysis of the whole management debate; the growing emphasis on self-managed learning and competence-based assessment; and cost-benefit analysis of training, benchmarking and the learning organization. |
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