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Synopsis: Designed specifically for trainers, speakers and group facilitators, this book features activities - games, quizzes, energizers and brain-teasers - to "break the ice" at the beginning of any meeting, or to recharge participants on the brink of boredom. The activities require little or no preparation and most can be completed in less than five minutes. Also included are props and hand-outs that can be photocopied for the entire group. (Amazon.com) |
Synopsis: This three-ring binder contains all 300 training games from "Games Trainers Play", "More Games Trainers Play" and "Still More Games Trainers Play". This collection covers motivation, communication, problem-solving, creativity, team-building and other key areas. (amazon.co.uk) |
Review: I have
applied its message to almost all of my programmes in the 3
months that I've had it. Every single programme is approx 40%
shorter, I've been able to build the courses more quickly, the energy
levels are through the roof, and the
learners' responses have been fantastic. If ever you are going to
spend £22 on a book related to training &
development, this is
it! Plus, it's FUN!
(reviewed by Martin Schmalenbach, Training Manager)
Synopsis: This handbook explains how trainers and educators can save money and time while producing better classroom results, and includes an overview of the background and underlying principles of accelerated learning. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: A collection of 62 fun games and physical activities based on those developed for outdoor adventure training courses are now made simple for the classroom trainer. Each activity comes complete with learning objectives, equipment needs, time scales, directions and debriefing guidelines. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis Companies today stand or fall, not by the efficiency of their processes and systems, but by the talent of their people. By using the techniques of NLP you can develop talent and achieve success. This is the popular but definitive book of NLP for people who want to make exceptional progress for their organisations. It demystifies NLP and relates the theories and principles to current business challenges. Its practical techniques, methods, and examples drawn from leading practitioners in the field, ensures you can implement this straight into your everyday working life. NLP Business Masterclass takes the applications of NLP in business beyond simple everyday techniques, to consider the bigger challenges facing organisations today including: * How do you get the best from your people? * What's the best way of organising teams? * How can NLP help us to motivate people? * What about incentives and rewards for employees? * How do you change a culture and keep it alive? * How can NLP help my people to become more committed and responsible? * How can NLP help to develop leadership? You can learn more about NLP. Or you can have the Masterclass. (Amazon.co.uk) |
With such a long title, this
book does need much supplementary description but the
review at amazon.co.uk does provide some more useful
information about what it contains and who it is for. About the Author: Alanna Jones is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist who has worked in a variety of settings using games for teaching and therapy. She has worked in psychiatric hospitals, as a church youth group leader, in therapeutic outdoor groups, and as a camp counselor with a variety of people. She has presented the popular TAG (Therapeutic Activities and Games) workshop in over 26 different cities across the country! Alanna found that when working in the field of Therapeutic Recreation there were few good books of useful, interactive games and activities for therapy. Most books were pen/pencil worksheets or outdoor oriented and required a large budget. This prompted her to write books that are useful, easy to use and full of fun, interactive therapeutic activities and games. |
Synopsis: This title is a standard reference on training with an established reputation amongst trainers, human resource managers and managers. Covering all the core principles of training, this revised edition is accessible and fun, and offers insights into achieving success in the constantly changing workplace. (see excellent reviews at amazon.co.uk) |
Peter M. Senge: "Everyone wants to be a
facilitator: consultants, managers, even teachers. What is desperately
needed is a common, practical reference for understanding facilitation
in diverse professional settings. No one has done a better job than
Roger Schwarz of synthesizing the major theoretical underpinnings and
translating them into clear, usable guidelines for practicioners." (Peter M. Senge, author, The Fifth Discipline) Chris Argyris: "I recommend this book with
enthusiasm to professionals in all fields, to consultants, graduate
students, and thoughtful managers. Schwarz has done an excellent job of
integrating social science theories with valuable advice. He makes both
come alive with rich, excellent examples." |
Reviewed by Roger Greenaway:
An odd combination of a very systematic approach mixed with an
inspiring collection of creative ideas. You'll appreciate the tidy
framework, the detailed examples and the temptations to experiment.
John Heron was the Founder and Director of the Human
Potential Research Project at the University of Surrey. This
book (1999) updates and integrates his earlier books. (Roger Greenaway)
Synopsis: This comprehensive guide is designed to provide the key to successful facilitation. Analytical in approach and highly structured, it aims to help facilitators both understand and develop their own personal style of facilitation. Combining a strong theoretical content, including a comprehensive group dynamic theory, with an extensive repertoire for practical action the book provides the essential foundations for building effective facilitative skills that suit both a facilitator's personality and then closely match the situations they encounter. (amazon.co.uk) |
For Boud, Keogh and Walker
reflection is an
activity in which people 'recapture their experience, think about it,
mull it over and evaluate it'. They focus on three aspects:
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Publisher: Reflection in Learning and Professional
Development
makes this diverse subject accesible and and will be an essential guide
for all those who are seeking to use or develop reflection to improve
learning in many different situations. Features include: • wide cross-discipline coverage • the literature of reflection • reflective techniques • a new model of learning reflection and journal writing • practical reflective activities to develop and improve learning. Both detailed and practical, trhe book will be valuable for all those wotrking in higher and further education, in training and in professional development. It will also be useful for educational researchers, psychologists, staff development managers and trainers in industry and commerce. |
Book Description: For the past
15 years the
authors have worked closely with colleagues to develop the emerging
issue of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a process for fostering positive
and strength based change, as a theory and practice that can be used by
OD professionals and managers/leaders of organizations, groups and
communities. They have seeded the AI process across the globe and are
now seeing a continually increasing interest in its use. In the light
of 15 years of practice adapting AI to many cultures, types of
organizations, and multiple "presenting issues," this is now a proven
process that OD consultants, organizational leaders and managers, and
the academic community are finding eminently innovative, energizing,
and useful. Synopsis: This title combines theory, an explanation of the reason that Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is transformative, and practical designs for various kinds of AI/OD interventions paired with case studies where the interventions have been used successfully. The book includes a complete explanation of AI from its historical and theoretical roots to its practice and impact in organizations presented in the context of the rapidly changing environment in which we live and work. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
For this book, the authors have selected the best games from the "Games
Trainers Play" series and adapted them for any business professional.
There are 75 games and activities to choose from, each designed to be
fast and fun and to stimulate discussion. (amazon.co.uk) Contents: Climate Setting, Icebreakers, and Session Openers. Presentation Boosters. Motivating Your Group. Creativity and Problem-Solving. Surfacing Hidden Problems in Your Group. Team Building Exercises. Managing Change: Dealing with Resistance and Getting Buy-in. Communication, Listening and Feedback Activities. |
Product Description: Here's everything a speaker or trainer needs to keep the audience awake, alert, and involved. This fun-filled collection of can't-miss activities contains the openers, closers, and energizers you can use to kick off each session with a bang, bring the audience back quickly should its attention wander, and end each session on a high note. Save hours of preparation time with these ready-made, easy-to-use activities that enable you to reinforce the key points in your presentation, spark active involvement from all the participants, and create an environment in which real listening can take place. (Amazon.com) |
Synopsis:
This is a collection of games for trainers and educators to enhance
simulations, role plays and exercises for both individuals and teams.
They focus on developing skills in communication, teamwork and
perception. Each one has instructions and a checklist for any materials
needed. (amazon.co.uk) Reviewed at amazon.com |
Synopsis: Team-building is a fast-growing approach to human resources development and total quality management. "Team Games for Trainers" contains 100 games, exercises and activities designed to build teams, through cultural assessment, organizational change readiness, personal skill building and empowerment; to help teams function, through work definition, role requirements and evaluation; and to maintain teams, through training for nontrainers, communication, conflict management and problem solving. For ease of use, each game is self-contained and includes templates, answer sheets and clear explanations of objectives and procedures. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: John Adair has transformed the understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book "Not Bosses But Leaders". Now he returns with a new title that explores in an authoritative way exactly what we know about leadership and leadership development. There is a revolution underway. We are moving - rapidly in some areas, slower in others - from management to business leadership. As the market for good leaders who can achieve results increases, so-called leadership development programmes have proliferated. Many of these are old management development programmes renamed, and others are full of confusing theories and unproductive approaches. This ground-breaking new book aims to set the record straight. It looks at the body of knowledge on leadership, identifies the seven key principles of leadership development, and answers key questions on how to select, train and educate leaders at the level of team, operational and strategic leadership. A vital addition to the debate on leadership from a true expert, this book also considers the global challenge and long term issues involved. (See the excellent reviews at amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: Making participation work requires workshops, training and learning that are themselves participatory. This sourcebook makes easily accessible the author's experience in the field in the form of 21 sets of ideas, activites and tips, both serious and fun, for topics such as getting started, seating, forming groups, managing large numbers, analysis, feedback, evaluation and ending. (amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
Business psychologist Rob Yeung shows how to facilitate excellent
workshops and focus groups using various techniques, tips and
motivators. (Amazon.co.uk) Review: Detailed guide to running MUCH more interesting meetings. Excellent ideas for how to design a meeting to engage and interest participants as opposed to having them sit there and watch the clock, waiting for the meeting to end. Review: Good ideas on Roving Brainstorms and Six Thinking Hats - tools that get participants during meetings up on their feet, talking to each other, contributing ideas, and coming up with action plans. The early chapters of the book lay out the principles of workshop design fairly gently - but then the final chapter throws in a whole bucket of ideas that really add to the ideas quotient of the book. (part of a review at Amazon.co.uk) Good introduction to running focus groups and workshops. Well laid out book going through everything I needed to run a workshop... It gives you lots of tools to run workshops. And it is written in very straightforward English with almost no management jargon. (from a review at Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: This text contains a collection of motivational activities for training situations. It includes ice-breakers, brain teasers, problem-solvers and session closers. Exercises on business topics, such as team-building, quality initiatives and quality in customer service, are also included. The games have been tested by training professionals and most can be played in under 30 minutes and implemented at little or no cost. The games can be easily removed and reproduced thanks to the perforated-margin format. (Amazon.co.uk) (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis: In this text the author, Ingrid Bens, delineates a well-defined set of practices and tools for meeting facilitation, providing the participants with the structure they need to identify their goals and develop their own action plans. Bens demonstrates how to stay neutral, synthesize ideas, summarize content, ask questions and manage digression. In this hands-on workbook and CD-ROM package, she also provides process tools for facilitating brainstorming, priority setting, root-cause analysis and systematic problem-solving. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
Business psychologist Rob Yeung shows how to facilitate excellent
workshops and focus groups using various techniques, tips and
motivators. (Amazon.co.uk) Review: Detailed guide to running MUCH more interesting meetings. Excellent ideas for how to design a meeting to engage and interest participants as opposed to having them sit there and watch the clock, waiting for the meeting to end. Review: Good ideas on Roving Brainstorms and Six Thinking Hats - tools that get participants during meetings up on their feet, talking to each other, contributing ideas, and coming up with action plans. The early chapters of the book lay out the principles of workshop design fairly gently - but then the final chapter throws in a whole bucket of ideas that really add to the ideas quotient of the book. (part of a review at Amazon.co.uk) Good introduction to running focus groups and workshops. Well laid out book going through everything I needed to run a workshop... It gives you lots of tools to run workshops. And it is written in very straightforward English with almost no management jargon. (from a review at Amazon.co.uk) |
Synopsis:
This collection of 50 icebreakers is specifically organized around
common business situations and is designed to help leaders start every
session, meeting, speech or workshop with a burst of energy and fun. It
includes icebreakers for the following categories: complete strangers;
introducing a topic; groups over 20; outdoor settings; self-disclosure;
team building; and more. Learn more about The Big Book of Icebreakers at Amazon.co.uk |
Synopsis: This text is designed for anyone who manages front line service workers. It details engaging games that help to train flight attendants, salespeople, customer service reps, help desk personnel and others. Most of the games take 15-30 minutes and include reproducible handouts. (Amazon.co.uk) See the reviews at Amazon.co.uk |
About the Author:
This is Alanna's fourth book filled with unique and exciting games!
Alanna has spent time working as a Recreational Therapist in
psychiatric hospitals with children, adolescents and adults. She has
also traveled the country leading the TAG (Therapeutic Activities and
Games) workshops. She is currently working as a ropes course
facilitator and continues to write books, and work with youth as a
coach and church youth group leader. (amazon.com) Product Description: As a sequel to the popular book "Team-Building Activities for Every Group" this book contains 107 more games and activities that promote team-building in an interactive and fun way. The games are new, different, experiential, exciting, easy to lead and require minimal resources. See a more detailed description and informative book reviews on this page at amazon.com |
Synopsis: An introduction to using stories, anecdotes, metaphors and poetry to give training programmes more impact. It includes 50 tales that trainers can read aloud and a matrix showing which tales can be used in a variety of training sessions, such as communication, leadership, and problem-solving. (Amazon.co.uk) |
Review: Colin Mortlock reflects
on a life of
adventure: climbing, kayaking, offshore catamaran sailing, solo
kayaking, solo wilderness walks and (more recently) identifying wild
flowers. Adventures and reflections are mixed in a proportion in a way that echoes the author's view that "Quality action and quality reflection on that action are of fundamental equal importance" It is the story of an adventurer and educator who is fascinated by the occasions on which he has felt "at one" with nature. These were moments of awe, wonder or synchronicity when canoeing, sailing, climbing or walking. I prefer Beyond Adventure (2001) to the The Adventure Alternative (1984) because it is more autobiographical, more adventurous and more authentic. Colin Mortlock's style is sometimes awkward especially when he is struggling to interpret his "flow" experiences, but he does so in a plain language that makes his story accessible to all. (reviewed by Roger Greenaway) Synopsis: This work looks beyond the excitement of adventure and exploration to investigate the relationship between man and nature. An account of an intensely personal journey, the book should appeal to all who love the outdoors. (amazon.co.uk) |
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