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