This comprehensive 2 volume package contains 1,175 Strategies, Techniques and Activities for Self-Development and Facilitation - Electronic Delivery
You get all the activities from:
500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers by Marlene Caroselli and
675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People by Laurel Alexander
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500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers
Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving.
500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers covers all the important basic, including how to:
• Have participants introduce themselves
• Test for understanding
• Add humor
• Give feedback
• Use questions
• Use quotations
• Have groups report
• Get through printed material
• Appoint group leaders
You’ll also get creative ways to deal with reluctant learners, make subject matter relevant, encourage participant-learning after the course has ended, develop study habits, make take-home assignments relevant and more.
Each of the book’s 20 chapters contains an overview. Within the activities is a wide variety of tips, suggestions, options, cautions, FYI tidbits and recommendations. Use the brainteasers scattered throughout the book to assess the brainpower in the room, when the class needs a mental break, after lunch to get juices flowing again or whenever you have odd minutes to fill.
In this volume you will find 25 ways to do each of the following in new and productive ways:
Add Humor
Choose Group Leaders
Conduct Non-Threatening Competition
Deal with Reluctant Learners
Develop Self-Confidence
Develop Study Habits
Encourage Managers, Principals, and Parents to Continue the Learning
Encourage Participant Learning After the Course Has Ended
Fill "Odd" Moments
Get Through Printed Material
Give Feedback
Have Groups Report
Have Participants Introduce Themselves
Make Take-Home Assignments Relevant
Make the Subject Matter Relevant
Review
Test for Understanding
Think on Your Feet
Use Questions
Use Quotations
675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People
The perfect opportunity to reflect on yourself and where you’re headed
Strategies, ideas and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace
We all struggle as professionals to stay on top of our game. Here is a book with hundreds of practical ways to take control of moving your career in the direction you want to go – and of helping your people do the same.
675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People reflects the real needs of real people in today’s workplace. You’ll gain exercises, activities and strategies that will help you develop your ability to build positive work relationships, change an aspect of your interpersonal behavior, come across as powerful in meetings, listen, make decisions, survive a downsizing and much more.
The engaging and hands-on resource provides a set of 50 individual learning opportunities and over 600 ideas, techniques and activities for making the most of the learning opportunities. Each module begins with an overview of the subject and moves on to exercises in easy-to-use categories:
- Individual tasks and reflections
- Working with others – a peer, colleague or partner
- Working with a mentor
- Developing others – exercises for facilitators to use in groups
- Useful Web sites
You can pick up this book and start wherever you like. You’ll be amazed at how many opportunities you face each day to learn with and from your co-workers, facilitate the development process in others and travel purposefully through your life.
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These 50 topics/competencies are covered:
Achieving Ambitions with Goal Setting
Balancing Life and Work
Basics of Transactional Analysis
Building Positive Work Relationships
Career Planning
Changing Interpersonal Behavior
Coaching Others
Conducting Interviews
Counseling in the Workplace
Creating a Wellness Program
Critical Thinking
Delegating
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Developing Leadership
Empowering Others
Facilitating Learning
Generating Creative Solutions
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Increasing Self-Esteem
Increasing Your Power at Meetings
Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Listening Skills
Making Decisions
Managing Change
Managing Your Anger
Mentoring
Motivating Others
Networking
Performance Management
Physical Stress Management
Planning Skills
Presentation Skills
Psychological Stress Management
Recognizing and Expressing Your Emotions
Resolving Conflict
Responding to Negativity in Others
Rethinking Your Values
Returning to Learning
Self-directed Learning in the Workplace
Skills and Strengths Analysis
Speaking Skills
Surviving Downsizing
Tactics for Negotiation
Tapping Your Personal Power
Team Building
Time Management
Using Effective Questioning
Valuing Diversity
Verbal and Nonverbal Language
Working with Gender Differences