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Be a better consultant with the 1999 Pfeiffer Annual

The 1999 Annual, Volume 2: Consulting continues the Pfeiffer Annual tradition of providing trainers, consultants, facilitators, and managers with the tools they need to make organizations more effective. With a focus on consulting, this volume offers Experiential Learning Activities, inventories, questionnaires, surveys, and resources for topics including leadership, problem solving, team development, facilitation, and more. Rich in practical content and geared toward forward-looking vision, this book provides...

Teach your learners to work smarter, not harder

The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook gives you the tools you need to ensure that maximum learning and maximum retention are taking place in your training sessions, sales sessions, and classrooms.

You'll learn how to:

• Improve your communication skills
• Identify the best way individual learners learn
• Rethink your personal beliefs that block learning
• Use music to create focused learning environments
• Measure the effectiveness of a learning session . . . and more

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This guide will help you track the results of post-training performance.

Optimize team performance during changing times.

Dave Arch--magician/trainer and coauthor of Dealing with Difficult Participants--adds magic to your training with these 114 tricks and teasers You will be able to use most of these fun tips immediately, with little practice and readily available objects.

Use magic to:


* Fire up imagination
* Get participants involved in your session
* Invoke challenging situations
* Add fun to training sessions
* Motivate participants to learn . . . and much more


If you talk and talk, your participants can stop listening. But...

In this companion volume to Distance Training, Sustaining Distance Training presents practical steps for integrating distance training into the day-to-day operations of any organization. Berge shows organizations how to move beyond the initial phases of setting up a distance training program and make it a part of the strategic planning process, including infrastructure, budget, staffing, and policy planning. He explains how twenty of the world's leading organizations have mastered the basics of distance training and have taken their efforts to the next level where distance training becomes...

Learn from the best of the best

Written by highly regarded experts in the field--including Zane L. Berge, Jay A. Conger, Robert Hargrove, James M. Kouzes, Julie O'Mara, Barry Z. Posner, Fran Rees, William J. Rothwell, and Edgar H. Schein--What Smart Trainers Know offers you a comprehensive guide to the HRD profession's most critical issues. In thirty-five mini-chapters (each of which can be read in approximately fifteen minutes) the book provides a handy resource for new practitioners who want to develop a broad working knowledge of the field. The book also offers seasoned...

Put the most advanced training practices available today to work for your organization. In this guidebook, a number of researchers and practitioners combine the often unshared breakthroughs from a number of training disciplines into a single set of principles and guidelines that you can use to implement and maintain a state-of-the-art training program. Learn the best practices and most current developments in strategic planning and needs assessment, training design and media selection, training delivery, transfer of training and training evaluation, long-term maintenance of leading programs...

Are you up to speed on the new directions in training and development?

The digital age is infiltrating the training profession faster than most of us can stay breast of it. Beyond the Podium, winner of the ISPI Book Award, will get you up to speed while also refreshing your understanding of the fundamentals. With a focus on the questions you're asking, Rossett and Sheldon open your eyes to the possibilities that are emerging--or already exist--as organizations move into new technologies and performance improvement. They examine the opportunities presented by e-learning, informal...

Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems is a hands-on, practical guide for dealing with the challenges of designing and implementing collaboration in the workplace. People working in groups and teams, team-based organizations and networked organizations, and value chains and strategic alliances understand that effective collaboration is mandatory for success in today's business environment. Change leaders-- such as organization development managers, steering committee members, design team members, line managers, and others-- will find this workbook an invaluable source of...

In Corporate Learning, Mike Dulworth and Frank Bordonaro offer down-to-earth information and advice for increasing organizational performance. The book shares useful insights about building leadership talent, as researched and presented by a top-notch cadre of contributors. Corporate Learning also outlines a five-step, field-tested learning strategy that organizations can use to increase the capacities of their leaders. In addition Corporate Learning contains a handy -Fitness Quiz- and illustrative real-life stories from Frank Bordonaro's stellar career as head of...

Written by training expert Susan El-Shamy, Role Play Made Easy is a practical and highly accessible resource for planning, preparing, and implementing effective role-playing activities that are solidly grounded in proven learning techniques. Role Play Made Easy offers trainers at all levels of expertise the step-by-step guidance needed to facilitate role playing activities that are appropriate for a wide variety of organizations and training situations. The book's 25 role play activities are designed to help participants build skills, boost confidence, and increase the...

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)...

90 World-Class Activities by 90 World-Class Trainers gathers classic activities from ninety master trainers in one convenient place. The stellar list of trainers includes Bellman, Blanchard, Booher, Crum, de Bono, Kouzes, Masie, Pike, Robinson, Scannell, Silberman, Thiagi, Zenger, and 77 other names you'll know.

Elaine Biech (editor of the Pfeiffer Annuals and author of Training for Dummies) has gathered a powerful and exciting collection of activities from around the globe. The sixteen topics include change management, coaching, diversity, leadership, and...

Praise for Michael Allen's e-Learning Library

This is the first volume of six in Michael Allen's e-Learning Library a comprehensive collection of proven techniques for creating e-learning applications that achieve targeted behavioral outcomes through meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning experiences. This book walks readers through the revolutionary processes of rapid prototyping and iterative design as a means of sorting the conflicting and hidden agendas of organizations, winning essential support, and generating creative learning solutions.

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If you are a first-time or an aspiring supervisor, the Stepping Up Participant Workbook will give you an accurate, real-life picture of what it means to be a supervisor. Stepping Up clearly explains the expectations for the position, the skills and knowledge you will need to be an effective supervisor, and offers a path to follow in order to successfully supervise others.

The Stepping Up Participant Workbook is a dynamic step-by-step series of learning strategies. Once you complete the Stepping Up workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand the role of...

Since it was first published almost twenty years ago, Developing Technical Training has been a reliable resource for both new and seasoned training specialists. The third edition of this classic book outlines a systematic approach called the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process that shows how to teach technical content defined as facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles. Whether you teach -hard- or -soft- skills, or design lessons for workbooks or computers, you will find the best training methods in this book. Using these techniques, you can create learning...

What People Have Said About Human Competence

-Among the ideas bulging from this classic work: performance exemplars, potential for improving performance, behavior-accomplishment distinction, performance matrix, ACORN troubleshooting test, performance audits, states, Worth = Value - Cost, knowledge maps, mediators, and job aids. The great accomplishments Gilbert left behind will continue to profit behavior analysis and performance improvement for a long, long time.- --Ogden Lindsley, Behavior Research Company

-Human Competence is probably the most borrowed and least returned...

Learn what Geary Rummler means by Serious Performance Consulting (SPC) as you follow an extensive case study that shows what SPC engagement looks like and what a serious performance consultant does. In this examination, you'll see how to use SPC to:

• Find a viable critical business issue and establish how a project's success will be evaluated.
• Use a conceptual performance analysis framework to generate hypotheses for gaps in results.
• Establish the difference between -is- and -should- performance and the find the cause behind it.
• Specify a solution set that...

Examine innovative ways to educate managers to do business with the Chinese

Management education is a big business today in the Greater China countries of Hong Kong, China, Macau, Singapore, and Taiwan as well as in Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia where there is a considerable Chinese ethnic population. Management Education in the Chinese Setting explores the challenges and opportunities those countries offer to educators in program and course development, delivery of programs and course materials, and in the development of instructors.

This valuable book is...