Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Training

"Teams have evolved into an important structure in business today--and are now needed more than ever.

An insightful collection of activities, "Team Workout" provides facilitators, trainers, leaders, and managers with a wide variety of tools to increase team effectiveness and upgrade skills and knowledge within today's challenging organizational environment. The book focuses on such current team issues as virtual teams, trust-building, customer satisfaction, recognition, and respect. Trainers will learn the key ideas that underlie all of the activities in this manual, including:

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"Of all the challenges faced by organizations today, team-building ranks as one of the biggest--and most critical. With organizations increasingly dependent on high-performance teams for virtually every imaginable activity, teamwork has become a major business strategy--and getting teams to work an absolute necessity.

The Team-Building Workshop was written specifically to help readers design and lead a two-day team-building workshop that achieves measurable results. Using the six-step team-building process and wealth of ready-to-use training materials, readers will be able to:

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"Every workplace has its share of conflict, and one of training's universal goals is to help organizations resolve it in a way that brings benefit to everyone involved. This timely activity book offers 30 ready-to-use exercises trainers can use to help workshop participants communicate more effectively and create positive outcomes from conflict situations. The Conflict and Communication Activity Book features:

* Field-proven exercises from the authors' worldwide experience

* Easy-to-follow instructions for preparation, additional reading, and Q & A...

"The Trainer's Tool Kit has long been a valued guide for trainers and managers in need of a quick refresher. Now completely updated with hundreds of ready-to-use techniques, the book is still the perfect resource for new trainers, managers who are suddenly asked to train, and training professionals in need of a quick refresher. Comprehensive and arranged in an easy-reference format, The Trainer's Tool Kit, Second Edition, supplies instant guidance specifically designed to make any training task easier and more efficient. The book gives you concise, easy-to-digest nuggets of information...

Trainers have to be creative if they want their participants to feel excited, challenged, and involved. "The Creative Training Idea Book" is packed with instructions for using activities, games, puzzles, toys, and props to increase energy and active participation in the classroom, and reveals how to think creatively about training in any situation.

Based on the author's nearly three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment. Readers will learn new methods...

Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the -detox industry, - that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like -body flushers- that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Times that make no bones about their real purpose. The...

Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement, or the -detox industry, - that works to beat these tests. Strategies include over-the-counter products like -body flushers- that sound innocent but are really designed to mask the presence of illegal drugs to kits advertised in pro-drug publications like High Times that make no bones about their real purpose. The first...

Much time and money is devoted to training - but courses do not always produce the outcomes desired. As a result many training organizations need to rethink the way they plan, design, deliver and evaluate their courses. Here Peter Taylor shows how to improve the quality of the entire training process - from initial assessments through to delivery and evaluation - by creating effective partnerships between trainers, trainees and other stakeholders. This wonderfully practical guide will allow users to adapt the PCD approach to their local conditions and create a sustainable improvement in...