Action Learning Toolkit

53 Tools To Help Your Organization Harness The Power Of Action Learning.Action Learning is a tried and tested way of finding solutions to issues, concerns, opportunities or tasks in the workplace. These issues have no specific right answer, but provide us with opportunities to explore different courses of action, and to reflect on these actions.

Assertiveness Skills Pack

27 Tried And Tested Training Activities For Improving Interpersonal Skills At Work. Making sure your behaviour and communication is assertive is invaluable in the workplace. But there is a fine line between non-assertive behaviour, assertive behaviour and aggression. Learning how to understand the impact of your behaviours on others and yourself.

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...

Induction Toolkit

Get Your New Recruits Off To A Flying Start! Harness their enthusiasm, motivation and fresh ideas by settling them into the organization quickly. This Toolkit gives you everything you need to create a reliable, hassle-free and, above all, effective induction procedure that will work perfectly again and again—on every type of employee. It’s packed with resources to lead you speedily through the planning, design and organizational stages of creating a good induction policy. Checklists, memory aids...

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...

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...

Teams In Action

22 Activities For Developing Team Skills Achieve maximum potential from your team! Help your participants to clearly understand why their team exists and how their contribution affects its overall performance. This pack contains ready-made, fun activities that cover all aspects of team working, including team development and how teams perform in different work situations. Stimulate thought and discussion about issues that are relevant to team performance and facilitate exercises that lead to agr...

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.

Time To Be Effective

Exploring 19 Time Management Techniques That Really Work This toolkit tackles the problem with most time management training - the fact that most people go away with good intentions but fail to implement what they've learned. Time to be Effective doesn't duck these issues. The activities enable you to explore why people haven't used time management techniques in the past—and how to find approaches that really work for them. The secret of these activities lies in the personalization of the learni...

Training Games For Trainers

135 Practical Games That'll Give Your Training The Fun-Factor Help your people learn more effectively through play - and enjoy themselves at the same time! This is our most popular Trainer Pack! Use these 135 confidence-boosting and enjoyable games that will energize, stimulate and liven up any training session. There are pages and pages of confidence-boosting and enjoyable games that will energize, stimulate and liven up any training session. You'll engage your participants' whole brains and bo...

Training That Sticks!

50 Creative Ways To Make The Most Of Post-It® Notes This unique resource gives you 50 creative approaches for using Post-it® Notes to make your training sessions more participative, more effective and more powerful. With Training that Sticks! you'll involve everyone. You'll get everyone contributing. And you'll get evident, measurable results from your training, planning and team working sessions. These are effective, powerful ideas that really do produce positive outcomes. And there are ideas h...

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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