1,175 Strategies, Techniques and Activities for Self-Development and Facilitation - PDF Download

This comprehensive electronic files package contains 1,175 Strategies, Techniques and Activities for Self-Development and Facilitation - Electronic Delivery

You get all the activities from:

500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers by Marlene Caroselli and

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People by Laurel Alexander

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500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers

Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving.

500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers covers all the important basic, including how to:

• Have participants introduce themselves
• Test for understanding
• Add humor
• Give feedback
• Use questions
• Use quotations
• Have groups report
• Get through printed material
• Appoint group leaders

You’ll also get creative ways to deal with reluctant learners, make subject matter relevant, encourage participant-learning after the course has ended, develop study habits, make take-home assignments relevant and more.

Each of the book’s 20 chapters contains an overview. Within the activities is a wide variety of tips, suggestions, options, cautions, FYI tidbits and recommendations. Use the brainteasers scattered throughout the book to assess the brainpower in the room, when the class needs a mental break, after lunch to get juices flowing again or whenever you have odd minutes to fill.

In this volume you will find 25 ways to do each of the following in new and productive ways:

• Add Humor
• Choose Group Leaders
• Conduct Non-Threatening Competition
• Deal with Reluctant Learners
• Develop Self-Confidence
• Develop Study Habits
• Encourage Managers, Principals, and Parents to Continue the Learning
• Encourage Participant Learning After the Course Has Ended
• Fill "Odd" Moments
• Get Through Printed Material
• Give Feedback
• Have Groups Report
• Have Participants Introduce Themselves
• Make Take-Home Assignments Relevant
• Make the Subject Matter Relevant
• Review
• Test for Understanding
• Think on Your Feet
• Use Questions
• Use Quotations

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People

The perfect opportunity to reflect on yourself and where you’re headed

Strategies, ideas and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace

We all struggle as professionals to stay on top of our game. Here is a book with hundreds of practical ways to take control of moving your career in the direction you want to go – and of helping your people do the same.

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People reflects the real needs of real people in today’s workplace. You’ll gain exercises, activities and strategies that will help you develop your ability to build positive work relationships, change an aspect of your interpersonal behavior, come across as powerful in meetings, listen, make decisions, survive a downsizing and much more.

The engaging and hands-on resource provides a set of 50 individual learning opportunities and over 600 ideas, techniques and activities for making the most of the learning opportunities. Each module begins with an overview of the subject and moves on to exercises in easy-to-use categories:

• Individual tasks and reflections
• Working with others – a peer, colleague or partner
• Working with a mentor
• Developing others – exercises for facilitators to use in groups
• Useful Web sites

You can pick up this book and start wherever you like. You’ll be amazed at how many opportunities you face each day to learn with and from your co-workers, facilitate the development process in others and travel purposefully through your life.

These 50 topics/competencies are covered:

• Achieving Ambitions with Goal Setting
• Balancing Life and Work
• Basics of Transactional Analysis
• Building Positive Work Relationships
• Career Planning
• Changing Interpersonal Behavior
• Coaching Others
• Conducting Interviews
• Counseling in the Workplace
• Creating a Wellness Program
• Critical Thinking
• Delegating
• Developing Emotional Intelligence
• Developing Leadership
• Empowering Others
• Facilitating Learning
• Generating Creative Solutions
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Increasing Self-Esteem
• Increasing Your Power at Meetings
• Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Listening Skills
• Making Decisions
• Managing Change
• Managing Your Anger
• Mentoring
• Motivating Others
• Networking
• Performance Management
• Physical Stress Management
• Planning Skills
• Presentation Skills
• Psychological Stress Management
• Recognizing and Expressing Your Emotions
• Resolving Conflict
• Responding to Negativity in Others
• Rethinking Your Values
• Returning to Learning
• Self-directed Learning in the Workplace
• Skills and Strengths Analysis
• Speaking Skills
• Surviving Downsizing
• Tactics for Negotiation
• Tapping Your Personal Power
• Team Building
• Time Management
• Using Effective Questioning
• Valuing Diversity
• Verbal and Nonverbal Language
• Working with Gender Differences