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August 2010 Releases
Leadout: An Experience in Leadership
Your manager was unexpectedly transferred to another department. Your new leader doesn’t provide the same type of direction. And now, some of your teammates are trying to undermine his efforts. Does this sound like a typical day at work? Hopefully not! The good news is that today, you aren’t at the office. Instead, you’re far away from your everyday environment, participating in a learning experience that will have a profound effect on the way you view teams and leaders.
Team Advantage: The Complete Guide for Team Transformation
Teams run organizations, yet the dynamic movement of most organizations can cause teams to lose their momentum. Team Advantage is an innovative program that harnesses a team’s focus and strengths on something bigger: to imagine an amazing stretch goal and then put in place an actionable plan to achieve it.
Team Emotional & Social Intelligence Created by subject matter experts Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell, Team Emotional & Social Intelligence offers a unique set of tools for determining and developing a team's emotional effectiveness in seven dimensions that are a prerequisite for high performance.
Campbell Leadership Descriptor If you're looking for a thorough analysis of leadership skills and abilities, here's your answer. The Campbell Leadership Descriptor is a complete training package that addresses nine vitally important leadership characteristics, including Vision, Diplomacy, Empowerment, and Personal Energy, to name just a few.
Here's a one-stop resource that will simplify your job as a trainer. The Pfeiffer Library, Version 4.0, is a compilation of more than 2,500 tools and resources from the complete collection of the well-known Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks. You get 40 years worth of reproducible and ready-to-use classroom exercises, assessments, and theoretical backgrounds from many of the most respected authors in the training industry - all in one compact and convenient resource.
A parrot perched on your shoulder. Snakes slithering across the table. Introducing the Jungle Escape Prop Pack, a trainer’s bag chockfull of fun critters and creatures that will transform your training room into a tropical rainforest that’s “teaming” with life. The minute your participants arrive, they’re instantly transported to an exotic location that’s far, far away from their everyday workplace.
Leading Across Differences
The dynamics of diverse groups present an interesting challenge for organizations. How do you teach people of different nationalities, religions, race, and gender to work effectively together? Developed by a research team that includes The Center for Creative Leadership faculty, Leading Across Differences is a training package that offers new ways of thinking about leadership challenges, providing participants with a framework and process for better understanding their context and taking appropriate action.
Leading Through Transitions Being a leader in today’s ever-changing organizations can be a daunting task. Not only are they challenged with the structural side, they are also on the frontlines of the people part of change.
From the expert minds at The Center for Creative Leadership, Leading Through Transitions is a comprehensive real-world training program that provides leaders with the skills – and the confidence – they need to be effective while facing unrelenting change.
58 ˝ Ways To Improvise In Training Now available as a Digital Download 58 ˝ Ways to Improvise in Training is not your typical activity collection. Unlike standard ice breakers, these reproducible exercises will warm up the limbs, improve intellectual dexterity, and break down barriers between group members. Whether you are running a training session, workshop, or meeting, 58 ˝ Ways to Improvise in Training will create an environment of imagination and energy, laughter, and commitment. There's no better way to engage participants in the learning process!
Telephone Skills Training Manuals Now available as a Digital Download Sure, it may be easy to recognize poor telephone skills when you are on the receiving end. But the ability to recognize and eliminate faults in our own behavior is a different story. The Telephone Skills Training Manuals, consisting of two separate volumes for inbound and outbound calls, is designed to introduce, reinforce, and strengthen fundamental telephone skills for handling customer service and sales calls.
Without skillful leaders, an enterprise struggles even in good times, fails to adapt to change, and buckles in the face of adversity. But how should you go about developing effective leaders? Start your next training effort by helping them gain insight into their own behavior – and its affect on those they lead. What’s My Leadership Style? is the best-selling assessment that quickly and accurately identifies a preference for one of four personality styles based on the proven theories of William M. Marston and Carl Jung.
Jungle Escape was an instant hit when it was first introduced three decades ago. Now the game that's taken more than 100 thousand learners on a memorable team-building adventure is celebrating its 30th anniversary with exciting new enhancements! The 5th Edition is bigger, better, and jam-packed with great features for you, from a cool eco-friendly backpack to full-color Facilitator and Participant materials, a suspense-filled action video, and much more.
Big Book of Personality Style
It may be small in actual size, but don't underestimate the power of this nifty little pocket guide. Designed to be used with any HRDQ Style Series assessment (such as What’s My Leadership Style?), the Big Book of Personality Style is fun takeaway that reinforces key learning points and offers quick tips on how to deal with others. So don’t let your audience leave empty handed – give them a copy and help them to “walk the talk” back at on the job.
Unforgettable Experiential Activities From training expert Mel Silberman, Unforgettable Experiential Activities is a next-step resource based on his well-known Active Training program. As accessible as it is useful, each one of the book's 75 original activities includes helpful training tips and techniques. Silberman addresses today’s most popular soft-skills topics, including leadership, change management, team building, creativity, conflict, negotiating, and communication.
Compact Cases Now available as a Digital Download Why spend your valuable time writing case studies when we’ve already done the work for you? Compact Cases consists of 44 succinct situations and role plays, from leadership and communication, to negotiating and team building that are fully customizable and reproducible. Incorporate them into your next training program – they’re a great way to spark discussion and encourage creative problem solving. Now available in two formats: 3-ring binder and downloadable PDF.
TeamBook Now available as a Digital Download Here is the collection you need to transform workgroups into effective teams. TeamBook consists of 27 reproducible ice breakers, energizers, activities, and exercises aimed at improving group functioning, eliminating barriers, encouraging communication, and building interpersonal relationships. Now available in two formats: 3-ring binder and downloadable PDF.
Pen and Paper Games for Training Now available as a Digital Download
A picture tells a thousand words, right? This cliché is true even in the training room. Challenge your participants to expand their minds through drawing, writing, and group speaking with Pen and Paper Games for Training, 40 unique activities that exercise both the logical left and creative right sides of the brain. From quick adrenalin-raising energizers to complex critical thinking, these “mind aerobics” can help anyone develop their visual, auditory, and linguistic skills, as well learn how to think "outside the box." Now available in two formats: 3-ring binder and downloadable PDF.
Lead your employees, clients, or students on a career path to success with Career Anchors, the training package that’s been an industry standard for more than 40 years. Developed by Edgar Schein, a well-known author and professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the learning starts with a self assessment that pinpoints one’s perceived areas of competence, motives, and values related to work choices - otherwise known as a “career anchor.”
Following the diagnostic assessment, the Participant Workbook walks individuals through the next steps in analyzing and understanding their career values.
Most people don’t sit down at their desks and make a mental plan to discriminate, judge, or isolate their colleagues. Even so, these behaviors still exist in today’s organizations. Understanding the presence of these biases is the first step to recognizing that diversity brings many advantages.
Here is the self assessment that’s helped millions of individuals in organizations improve working relationships among diverse co-workers and customers. How so? The Diversity Awareness Profile, commonly known as “DAP,” is a powerful assessment that helps people to:
Increase their awareness of the perceptions they have of others
Assess the behaviors that most influence interaction with others
Masterful Coaching Fieldbook
Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, organizations now recognize the benefits of coaching at all levels. So much so, that not only has coaching become a universally applied tool for developing and growing talent, it is one of the core competencies that many organizations mandate for its leaders and managers. In The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook, author Robert Hargrove shares his secrets with leaders of all levels: “Coaching is about realizing an impossible dream and winning at the great game of business, not just about changing attitudes and behaviors.”
Thiagi's 100 Favorite Games With this resource, you’ll never be stuck for a fun, innovative, or effective training activity ever again. Thiagi's 100 Favorite Games is a first-of-its-kind collection that represents game play at its very best. Developed by the foremost authority on interactive learning, Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan offers the “how-to” and the “lowdown” on his all-time favorite games.
Exploring Personal Styles Now available as a Digital Download A great follow up to the Personal Style Inventory, Exploring Personal Styles includes over 30 ready-to-use workshops based upon Jungian personality theory. Use these designs to help participants learn new ways of approaching and dealing with others, help them capitalize on their personality strengths, uncover the reasons why dealing with others can be difficult, and how to curb their temptation to judge or criticize others.
TeamBuilders: 10 Adventures in Working Together Now available as a Digital Download Challenge your participants’ imaginations with TeamBuilders: 10 Adventures in Working Together, a fun collection of learning events that encourage the exploration of team skills through the use of fantasy scenarios. The activities enhance the development of five fundamental team skills: decision making, problem solving, teamwork, communication, and leadership.
Customer Service Activities for Training Now available as a Digital Download
Who are our customers? What’s my role in the service process? What practical steps can I take to improve service? These questions and more are addressed in Customer Service Activities for Training, a collection of 38 activities, assessments, role plays, and action plans that help customer service representatives learn how to deliver exceptional service.
If you're looking for a thorough analysis of leadership skills and abilities, here's your answer. The Campbell Leadership Descriptor is a complete training package (including a self assessment, action planning workbook, and facilitator guide) that addresses nine vitally important leadership characteristics, including vision, diplomacy, empowerment, and personal energy, to name just a few. More
Created by two leaders in the field of Emotional Intelligence training, Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell, Team Emotional & Social Intelligence offers a unique set of tools for determining and developing a team's emotional effectiveness in seven dimensions that are a prerequisite for high performance. More
101 Ways to Make Training Active
We know that people learn best by doing, when they can hear it, see it, ask questions about it, discuss it. 101 Ways to Make Training Active is a sourcebook jam-packed with well over a hundred different ideas to make your training fast-paced, fun, supportive, personally engaging - and most importantly, effective. More
Pump Them Up! Re-energize, re-focus, and re-commit team members in as little as two hours with this handy collection of reproducible team-building workshops. Pump Them Up! is available in two formats - traditional loose leaf or the new digital edition. Both are reproducible and a great value at only $99.95. More
First Aid for Stress This activity collection is an excellent addition to any trainer's library. First Aid for Stress will help you better understand, recognize, and measure the stress that is ever present in today's organizations - and then figure out ways to change behavior and identify solutions. Need it right away? There's no waiting for a package to arrive when you choose the new digital edition. More
Facilitator's Toolkit You've been asked to facilitate a training session. Now what? Reach for the Facilitator's Toolkit. It's fully equipped with over 40 practical tools for organizing, diagnosing, planning, problem solving, and more. With the new reproducible digital edition, there's no waiting - and there are no shipping fees. Order it, download it, and start using it today! More
