EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Synopsis: The "Handbook of Experiential Learning" is a comprehensive resource that draws together contemporary thought and practice on a wide range of experiential learning applications from the best-known authorities on the topic. In this book, volume editor and leading experiential learning expert, Mel Silberman presents a contemporary review of experiential learning in the workplace complete with models, applications, and innovative uses. The handbook covers a broad range of experiential learning methods including: games and simulations; action learning; role-play and Improv; story-telling; adventure activity; reflective practice; and, creative play. It also describes the use of experiential learning in topics such as technical skills, leadership, team building, diversity and cross-cultural training, and emotional intelligence. (Amazon.co.uk) ** This book includes a chapter on Dynamic Debriefing by Roger Greenaway **

ACCELERATED LEARNING

Book Description By adopting accelerated learning principles you can teach in a way that maximises your students' chances of reaching their potential. This pocketbook offers paractical strategies and techniques that get results. After outlining the background to accelerated learning, Brin Best explains how to prepare your students for learning and how to create the right learning environment. A chapter on teaching strategies covers questioning techniques and styles of teaching & learning, with suggested activities helpfully linked to each of the multiple intelligences as identified by Howard Gardner. A detailed self-evaluation framework serves as a tool to help you review and develop practice. (see the excellent reviews at Amazon.co.uk)

From the Inside Flap: This book focuses on the ‘learning’ in Accelerated Learning. It provides over 200 ideas and activities for putting theory into practice. ACCELERATED LEARNING: A User’s Guide answers the following questions: In what ways are today’s learners different from their predecessors? What is Accelerated Learning? Can Accelerated Learning be used in any learning situation? Will Accelerated Learning actively engage learners? Is there a smarter way to mark and set homework? How does Accelerated Learning link to thinking skills? How do I use the new technologies? ACCELERATED LEARNING: A User’s Guide supplies the solid background to make learning happen. The authors have used their combined experience to write an accessible guide to the Accelerated Learning method based on their own successes. Their message is ‘Take the ideas and turn them into your own success story.’ Beautifully designed in an easy-to-read summary format, this book ‘walks the talk’. ACCELERATED LEARNING: A User’s Guide contains: A new and updated Accelerated Learning Cycle Practical activities for each stage of the cycle An outline of why Accelerated Learning should be used How to work in groups Worthwhile ways of integrating new technologies Independent learning and problem solving How to improve marking – so you do less and students learn more Examples of staff development approaches Guidelines on how to get started

TEAMWORK AND TEAM BUILDING

Synopsis: This guide offers 50 proven exercises any manager can use without spending lots of money. These group activities are designed with the non-trainer in mind. It features a special chapter on troubleshooting and dealing with unexpected difficulties in team-building. (Amazon.co.uk)

Book Description: Whether leading in business, church, sports, or in your family, teamwork is essential. In this new book, John Maxwell walks readers through the various laws of leadership showing the importance of working together. Everyone who works with people is realising that the old autocratic method of leadership simply doesn’t work. The way to win is to build a great team. John C. Maxwell has been teaching the benefits of leadership and team building for years. Now he tackles the importance of teamwork head on, writing about teamwork being necessary for every kind of leader, and showing how team building can improve every area of your life. Written in the style of Maxwell's best-seller 'The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership', this new book not only contains laws that you can count on when it comes to getting people to work together, but it tells them in such a way that you can start applying them to your own life today. And it’s illustrated with great stories of team leaders – and team breakers – from history, business, the church, and sports. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Synopsis: A companion workbook to the best-selling guide by the same name offers practical exercises and application suggestions that can help team leaders implement the author's "17 Laws" into their work and personal lives. (Amanzon.co.uk)

Synopsis: The lively and persuasive activities are the work of Paul Tizzard who has already established his credentials as a creative developer of training materials with the publication of "The Icebreakers Pocketbook" and "The Openers and Closers Pocketbook", both popular titles in the Management Pocketbook Series. The activities in "The Teambuilding Pocketbook" are grouped according to their suitability for different stages of team development. From new teams to established teams, there is a range of applicable activities to choose from. There are those too that address specific team issues. To help readers identify which activities they need to draw on, there is a questionnaire that will identify at what stage their own team has reached. Also dealt with in the book are team psychometrics and facilitation, presentation and coaching skills. (Amazon.co.uk)

Synopsis: In "Games Trainers Play Outdoors", best-selling training author Gary Kroehnert presents a collection of 75 new and classic exercises, simulations and activities conducted outside the traditional 'classroom' environment. All are tried and tested, and all are designed to bring a breath of fresh air to your training program. In the world of workplace learning, outdoor training offers the immediate benefit of improving trust and team awareness, as well as increasing individual self-confidence and self-esteem. When incorporated into an effective training program, these low-to-medium-risk activities lead to higher team productivity, lower turnover rates and a more enjoyable work environment. "Games Trainers Play Outdoors" can be incorporated into a wide range of training environments - from an ongoing professional development program for seasoned executives to the special challenges of transition management during re-organisation. For trainers and facilitators, it's the ideal source of outdoor activities designed to: improve cooperation and teamwork; develop problem-solving, decision-making and communication skills; and build confidence in training groups, work groups and individuals. (Amazon.co.uk)

TRAINING GAMES

Synopsis: This practical work provides a comprehensive collection of tried and tested old favourites together with modern innovative games designed to enhance and promote children's self-esteem, drawing on the authors' own in-depth knowledge of teaching group games.(Amazon.co.uk)

Synopsis: This invaluable book for parents and teachers is packed with creative and dynamic games that will help children to develop positive relationships. Part 1: Games that teach looking, listening, speaking, thinking and concentration skills. Part 2: Consolidating the 5 skills area and opportunities for children to apply them in different social contexts. * Collection of inventive games that will enable you to have a positive influence on a child's complex social journey through life. * All activities have been tried, tested and thoroughly enjoyed! (Amazon.co.uk)

Book 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. Synopsis: For every speaker or trainer who has faced a roomful of restless or downright bored people, this book is a lifesaver! Ideal for any type of training, "Great Session Openers, Closers, and Energizers" provides can't-miss activities for beginning and closing a training session, or just keeping session participants alert and interested. Most importantly, each activity reinforces a key point in the presentation. The result is a book that helps presenters win an audience's attention and communicate more effectively and also guides them to actively learn. (Amazon.co.uk)

TRAINING SKILLS

Synopsis: "Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation" will help you ensure that learning in your organisation is focused in the right areas and on the right people. It will help you assess whether learning interventions actually work and deliver improved performance that makes a difference to your business. "Learning Needs Analysis and Evaluation" is an essential tool that will enable you to demonstrate how learning/training expenditure contributes to your organisation's overall performance and bottom line. This authoritative book: takes business needs as the major driver for learning activities; explores how learning needs are identified and then clearly specified to ensure that training is targeted effectively; covers the key area of how to plan for the learning; setting out the role of learning strategies and learning plans; and sets out a systematic four-stage evaluation process to assess whether the learning has been successfully transferred to the workplace and the extent to which it meets organisational objectives and provides value for money. This new edition has been extensively revised (going far beyond the semantic) to highlight the changes that a move from 'training' to 'learning' have brought about. It also takes into account developments in the field, such as the emergence of e-learning and blended learning solutions. It is a highly practical book featuring numerous case studies and examples. With the help of this book, HR and learning professionals can demonstrate the contribution of learning to business performance. Whether you are new to the learning arena or an experienced professional, this book will provide invaluable guidance on this essential business topic. (Amazon.co.uk)

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)

LEARNING TO LEARN

Synopsis A brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development. Since its original description in Frames of Mind (1983, 1993), the theory of multiple intelligences has taken its place as one of the seminal ideas of the twentieth century. Further explicated in Gardners 1993 book, Multiple Intelligences, these ideas continue to attract attention and generate controversy all over the world. Now, in Intelligence Reframed, Gardner provides a much-needed state of the art report on the theory. He describes how it has evolved and been revised. He introduces two new intelligences, and argues that the concept of intelligence should be broadened, but not so much that it includes every human faculty and value. In addition, he offers practical guidance on the educational uses of the theory, and responds in lively dialogue to the critiques leveled against it. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. (synopsis continued at Amazon.co.uk)

Synopsis: "Making Learning Happen" provides an accessible and practical discussion of teaching and learning for the post-compulsory sector of higher and further education. The book is centred around Phil Race's well-known 'ripples on a pond' model of learning, which has identified five fundamental factors underpinning successful learning: 'wanting' to learn; 'needing' to learn; 'learning by doing'; 'feedback'; and 'digesting- making sense of what has been learned'. This text will allow teachers and learners to address these factors head-on in a wide range of contexts, including large-group teaching, small-group work, online learning, and in their use of formative feedback to help their students. Included in the book is a self-analysis questionnaire, to enable learners to reflect on how these factors contribute to their own approaches to learning. (Amazon.co.uk)

Neuro Linguistic Programming

Synopsis: Neuro Linguistic Programming explains how you make sense of your world and how to be what you want to be. In this edition, the author explores recent developments in NLP and shows how NLP has become even more significant in our increasingly unpredictable business and personal lives. (Amazon.co.uk)

LEARNING ORGANISATIONS & LEARNING AT WORK

Synopsis: As policy makers increase their focus on workplace learning as a way of improving organizational performance, the debate about the learning organization has grown. Workplace Learning in Context is an important contribution to this debate, as it counterbalances the often over-optimistic assumptions made about the future of work and learning. Arguing that without a contextualised analysis of the field, our understanding of the learning environment is limited, this book reconsiders the true role and nature of workplace learning in context. Grounded in original research, the book features case studies which illuminate how the workplace environment can provide both barriers to and opportunities for learning. It explores learning in different organizational contexts and different countries, sectors, types of public and private sector organization, and by different occupational groups. This multi-disciplinary approach provides a coherent perspective of the institutional, organizational and pedagogical contexts of workplace learning. This groundbreaking text will be welcomed by policy-makers, trainers, trade unionists and educators alike providing them with the intellectual tools required. (Amazon.co.uk)

Synopsis Developing Organisational Consultancy provides consultants with theoretical and practical advice on how to handle typical consultancy challenges. (Amazon.co.uk)

LEADERSHIP AND COACHING

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: Recent studies show that life skills coaching, executive coaching and business coaching are all effective ways of achieving sustainable growth, change and development in an individual, group or organization. "The Coaching at Work Toolkit" is the first comprehensive, practical resource for coaches in the use of the theories, tools, techniques and practices that affect learning and change. This book offers coaching tools and psychology-based techniques and is a much-needed guide to understanding the practice of coaching and applying the theories and language associated with it. The employment of life skills coaching, executive coaching and business coaching is being heralded as the way to create organizations of the future. Anyone interested in achieving their best and staying ahead of the competition should read this book. Through the use of case studies, practical instructions and application guidelines, the authors have provided models, principles and techniques that enable professional coaches to achieve breakthrough results. (see continuation and favurable reviews at Amazon.co.uk)

CREATIVE TEACHING

Book Description: Over 100 activities that can be used across all curriculum areas to motivate your pupils and to engage and sustain their interest. The activities will enhance pupils’ ability to ask questions, think creatively and express their considered judgements with confidence. Full of photocopiable resources. Synopsis: Imagine That... explores the nature of creative thinking and how this can be effectively driven through an ethos of positive encouragement, mutual support and celebration of success and achievement. Links content and process within the learning environment. Addresses the emotional components of the educational experience, and how these can be optimised to enhance self-esteem and confidence in the learner. Provides nearly 100 practical and immediately useable classroom activities and games that can be used in isolation, or in combination, to help meet the requirements and standards of the National Curriculum. In short, Imagine That... empowers children to learn how to learn. (Amazon.co.uk)

Synopsis: The extensively illustrated pocketbook is aimed at teachers working in primary and secondary education in England but is also relevant to teachers working in other parts of the UK and overseas. It starts with 'challenging your comfort zones' and the importance of teamwork with students and colleagues. Ideas for creative starters, middles and plenaries include active approaches to lessons and using technology creatively. Questioning techniques are discussed and a section devoted to revision includes strategies to help visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners. (Amazon.co.uk)

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