Counselling Skills At Work

20 Activities For Developing Practical Counselling Skills This pack outlines the practical benefits of using counselling skills in a work context using a straight forward, jargon free approach.   Participants learn how counselling skills can be applied in a variety of different situations, such as coping with change, managing stress, giving and receiving feedback and conducting performance reviews.

Developing People: The Manager’s Role

20 People Development Activities for Managers This pack highlights the pivotal role managers and supervisors play in developing their people. Use the activities to help them view 'developing people' in the context of their own objectives and results. Get them to see the bottom line benefits and the enhancement of their own management skills. Show them how they can develop others and themselves in the process.

Developing Teams: The Leader’s Role

20 Tried And Tested Activities For Promoting And Maintaining Team Learning Team leaders are vital in any organization—they help build successful teams, which in turn builds organizational success. The activities in this training resource have been specifically designed for trainers to develop highly motivated team leaders; team leaders who confidently lead team learning and development; team leaders equipped with all the skills and knowledge they need to develop team building and whole-team lear...

Evaluation Toolkit

The Complete Guide To Assessing The Effectiveness Of Training And Learning In Your Organization. These days, being able to demonstrate your contribution is more important than ever. You can use this pack to build a strong argument for investment and resources. Learn how to set objectives, measure improvements and evaluate results. There are case studies and working examples, and an impressive array of over 70 tools for instant use. The pack is based on the four-stage model of: assessing reaction...

First-Time Leadership

22 Tried And Tested Activities To Explore And Develop Appropriate Behaviours And Skills As more and more organizations move towards a flatter, team-based structure, team leaders are having to learn to combine a leadership role with full-time operational responsibilities. This pack is aimed at developing core leadership skills in people who are new to this demanding role. It encourages your people to focus on what leaders do, rather than who they are, so they can break their new responsibilities ...

Learning Needs Analysis

The Complete Guide To Getting Everyone Involved In Learning Needs Make a clear case for Learning Needs Analysis and use this knowledge to promote its many organizational benefits. Discover dozens of practical techniques for getting 'buy-in' from colleagues. Designing and using questionnaires jargon-free, with clear descriptions and explanations, this activity pack gives you the confidence you need in this key subject. Before long, you'll be winning commitment from senior managers and getting eve...

Light Bulb Learning

49 Energetic Activities To Invigorate Your Training Sessions Light Bulb Learning delivers 49 invigorating nuggets of learning—at your fingertips and ready to use. You can rely on these exhilarating training activities to foster an inspiring new climate of learning in your workplace. You'll find yourself dipping into this pack again and again, for proven activities that encourage the self-development of your people. These activities will provide increased insight into their own capabilities—skill...

Managing Change

19 Process Activities For Managing Change This activity pack will enable you to devise a program for facilitating change in your organization. Through a mixture of discussions, structured questioning and practical exercises, participants work toward reaching their own change solutions. Employees will learn that change is an opportunity to be welcomed, not ignored or resisted. They will be able to plan for, and manage the changes that they and their organization must make to ensure and enhance bu...

New Trainer’s Toolkit

Tools, Techniques And Tips For The New-To-The-Job Trainer This Toolkit is the training resource for anyone new to training. It will guide you, support you and inspire you from the moment you open its pages. It provides exactly what so many new trainers have been asking for: key training techniques, clearly explained—and thoroughly tested by an experienced trainer. You'll want to use this pack again and again to dip into the ideas and tips it contains. You'll quickly learn how to deliver any type...

Storytelling For Trainers

50 Short Stories And 175 Related Activities To Aid Memory And Enhance Learning. Learn how to use story-based activities as catalysts for learning with this superb training resource. As well as containing tips and tricks on choosing, using and delivering stories, you’re also provided with 50 versatile stories to augment virtually any training session. Each story covers a number of different training topics and key learning points so you can choose the ones that are most appropriate to your messag...

The Facilitation Toolkit

24 Self-Study And Group Sessions For Facilitators Anyone who wants to understand more about the role of facilitation in organizations will benefit from working through this toolkit. It provides you with a collection of activities to assist group processes. Designed to be flexible, this toolkit can be used as a self-study guide or for developing others in all the skills and techniques they'll need to facilitate more effectively. The 24 sessions cover all of the core skills, tools and techniques y...

The Performance Management & Development Toolkit

15 Sessions For Establishing An Effective Strategic People Development System This resource takes you through the procedure of establishing an effective performance management and development process for your employees. The 15 sessions provide you with a clear framework and structure to guide you through this process. Designed to be used with senior managers, as well as team leaders and team members, the messages in this pack encourage the involvement of people throughout the organization.

The Team Working Activity Pack

23 Activities To Enhance Team Performance Stuck for ideas to get your teams really working effectively? Well, this activity pack is just your answer. This resource takes a fun and games type approach, but with a serious purpose, to help team members practice a wide range of skills. It's a rich mix of highly practical exercises, including role-plays, and hands-on team working activities to stimulate ideas, get teams planning, communicating, evaluating and monitoring performance. Most of the activ...

Trainer’s Treasure Trove

An Inexhaustible Goldmine Of Ideas To Spice Up Your Training! Do you collect useful ideas? You know the kind of thing: an energizer you've just seen that you'll use for your next customer care course, a role play you use for communication skills courses, a team challenge ready to fill a planned or unexpected space in a session. Now imagine the value of having someone else's great collection ready at your fingertips too! The Trainer's Treasure Trove is a remarkable collection of ideas, tactics, t...

Using Emotional Intelligence At Work

17 Tried And Tested Activities For Understanding The Practical Application Of Emotional Intelligence How confident are you on the subject of emotional intelligence? Are you already committed to the concept but need help in putting it across in your organization? Or perhaps you don't feel that you know enough to be competent to train people in it. Whatever your knowledge of Emotional Intelligence, you could soon be delivering its benefits. These activities need your skills as a facilitator, but d...

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