Focusing on training and performance, this reference is aimed at training and development professionals. It contains experiential learning exercises, questionnaires, job aids, and how-to articles.

The Consultant's Big Book of Reproducible Surveys and Questionnaires is a value-packed collection of 50 easy-to-use diagnostic tools consultants can use to collect data from their clients, quickly make needs assessments, and offer diagnoses. Never before has such a comprehensive, user-friendly collection of surveys and questionnaires been available to consultants.

Mel Silberman, Ph.D., is a bestselling author, speaker, and consulting psychologist known internationally as a pioneer in the areas of interpersonal intelligence, active learning, and facilitation/ consultation. Dr....

Training expert Mel Silberman is the father of the popular and effective active training method. In his landmark textbook, Active Training, he identified the specific characteristics of the active training method that results in deeper learning and improved retention. Now, Training the Active Training Way takes the next step by distilling the active training method into eight core strategies that trainers can use to craft interactive and engaging training, even for the most challenging training assignments such as technical skills training, and information-rich (and often dull)...

This is a set and includes ISBN: 9780787973551 The 60-Minute Active Training Series: How to Speak Up Without Putting Others Down, Leader's Guide and ISBN: 9780787973599 The 60-Minute Active Training Series: How to Speak Up Without Putting Others Down, Participant's Workbook.

Presents customizable performance improvement tools. This book contains work sheets and reproducible tools that can be downloaded from the Web and customized or photocopied. They include reproducible job aids for employees, performance improvement activities that managers can use to train their teams, and questionnaires for performance assessment.

Are you ready to show your participants how to bring out the best in their colleagues, customers, direct reports, and bosses? Then the PeopleSmart Workshop is for you

The Workshop empowers leaders, associates, or intact teams to:

• Be curious, not furious, when faced with a challenging colleague.
• Get information and ideas across so they are understood.
• Promote ideas that are accepted rather than resisted.
• Think ?we? rather than ?me? in team situations.

The Facilitator's Guide includes robust instructions for conducting a...

Liven up training with new, dynamic strategies for active participation

101 More Ways to Make Training Active brings together a rich, comprehensive collection of training strategies and activities into one easy source. Designed for quick navigation, this useful guide is packed with classroom-ready ideas and twenty -how-to- lists to enliven any learning situation, helping you better engage their trainees and encourage active participation. These techniques are applicable to almost any topic and learning objective, and provide guidance on every aspect of Active Training design...

The all-time bestselling training handbook, updated for new technologies and roles

Active Training turns instructional design on its head by shifting the emphasis away from the instructor, and on to the learner. Comprehensively updated to reflect the many developments in the field, this new fourth edition covers the latest technologies and applications, the evolving role of the trainer, and how new business realities impact training, advancing new evidence-based best practices for new trainer tasks, skills, and knowledge. Up to date theory and research inform the practical...