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Gary Kroehnert
Synopsis 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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Phil Race
Synopsis This volume brings together a range of expert tips and guidance for staff developers and trainers. Offering a collection of ready-to-use ideas, advice and support on all aspects of training, it can be used as a day-to-day resource for the experienced and less-experienced alike.

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Lynn Solem, Bob Pike
Synopsis They’ll Forget You as Soon as They Walk out the Door… unless you make your training memorable. This essential resource is your way to make your mark. Fifty ways to close your training sessions and presentations so they won’t forget you—or your training.

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Bob Pike, Lynn Solem
Synopsis No one can establish a learning atmosphere without gaining audience attention, this book offers over 50 activities that trainers can use to start their sessions memorably. When participants enter a training room, their brains are "full". They are distracted, and they may perceive training as an interruption to other important tasks. The first job of any trainer is to break participant preoccupations These activities can be used to build teams, encourage social mixing and even enliven an atmosphere that has fallen prey to indecision and apathy.

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Keri Phillips, Patricica Shaw
Synopsis 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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Patricia K. Cross
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Edie West
Synopsis This collection of 50 icebreakers is specifically organized around common business situations and is designed to help leaders start every session, meeting, speech or workshop with a burst of energy and fun. It includes icebreakers for the following categories: complete strangers; introducing a topic; groups over 20; outdoor settings; self-disclosure; team building; and more.

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Michael Lawlor, Peter Handley
Synopsis This text presents various approaches to training people within organizations. It discusses recent discoveries on how the two hemispheres of the brain operate, and provides guidelines for trainers on how to use their ideas and techniques to empower training programmes.

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Sara Thorpe, Jackie Clifford
Synopsis 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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Leslie Rae
Synopsis 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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Tony Pont
Synopsis 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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Peter Bramley
Synopsis This work provides strategies for evaluating training effectiveness. The author shows how to plan evaluation, how to establish whether the objectives set for learning activities have been achieved, and whether the needs of the "interested parties" in the evaluation have been addressed.

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Edward E. Scannell, John W. Newstrom
Synopsis 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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David A. Kolb
Synopsis Central to this book is the question 'What is learning?'. The author addresses this question on a psychological, philosophical, and sociological level.

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Carl R. Rogers, H. Jerome Freiberg
Synopsis 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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Steve Truelove
Synopsis 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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Lawrence S. Mason
Synopsis 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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Robert B. Dilts
Synopsis 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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Roger Buckley, Jim Caple
Synopsis This text provides some basic definitions and assumptions concerning one-to-one training before going on to give an analysis of the preparation that goes into a one-to-one training session, which includes objectives, strategy and tactics. It suggests a model for one-to-one training.

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Michael J. Gelb
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David Shephard, Tad James
Synopsis Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned professional, Presenting Magically will provide you with masterful tips and techniques that will transform your presenting skills by introducing you to the secrets of many of the world's top presenters.

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Carolyn Nilson
Synopsis 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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Alanna Jones
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Robert Epstein, Jessica Rogers
Synopsis 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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John Heron
Synopsis 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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Ted Garratt
Synopsis Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is rapidly proving itself as a technique to assist trainers in the effective delivery of training and development. Clearly detailing what NLP involves and how it can be utilized at every stage of the training process, this practical guide is designed to help trainers to understand how NLP techniques can help improve training and acknowledge different styles of learning. There are case studies and exercises.

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Peter M. Senge
Synopsis 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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Eliyahu Goldratt, Jeff Cox
Synopsis 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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Synopsis 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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Roger Buckley, Jim Caple
Synopsis An introduction to the theory and practice of training, this fourth edition includes information on changes in the field. It covers the role of computers and the Web in training and developments in the areas of competency, benchmarking, dealing with attitudes and the readiness of the learner.

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Julius E. Eitington
Synopsis 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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Margaret Anne Reid, Harry Barrington
Synopsis 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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John Seymour, Joseph O'Connor
Synopsis Describes training skills needed in business and professional life.