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Masterful Coaching, 3rd Edition

Robert Hargrove — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

When the first edition of Masterful Coaching was published, it quickly became the standard resource for anyone who was a coach, considering becoming a coach, or curious about being an extraordinary coach. In this completely revised third edition of his groundbreaking book, Hargrove presents his profound insights into the journey to of becoming a masterful coach along with guiding ideas, tools, and methods.

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Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement, 3rd Edition

Ruth Colvin Clark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This third edition of the classic resource, Building Expertise draws on the most recent evidence on how to build innovative forms of expertise and translates that evidence into guidelines for instructional designers, course developers and facilitators, technical communicators, and other human performance professionals. Ruth Colvin Clark summarizes psychological theories concerning ways instructional methods support human learning processes.

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Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication that Drives Action

Andrew Abela — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Advanced Presentations by Design overturns much of the conventional wisdom and practice for creating presentations. Based on over 200 research studies from the fields of communication, marketing, psychology, multimedia, and law, it provides fact-based answers to critical questions about presentation design, including how to adapt your presentation to different audience personality preferences, what role your data should play and how much of it you

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Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short) Participant Workbook

Marcia Hughes, James Bradford Terrell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Team Emotional and Social Intelligence

Emotional and social intelligence are key ingredients for success when you are working as part of a team. Empathy, flexibility, and assertiveness are some of the essential skills that you, as a team member, need to foster if you intend to collaborate so you can make the right decisions and ultimately succeed.

Team Emotional and Social Intelligence, Participant Workbook offers a unique set of tools for determining

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Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short)

Marcia Hughes — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This ten-minute assessment is the starting point for understanding a team's Emotional Intelligence. Each individul in the team completes and scores the assessment, and the results are then aggregated to arrive at a team rating. The assessment measures seven dimenions of team behaviour and performance: team identity, motivation, emotional awareness, communications, stress tolerance, conflict resolution and positive mood.

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Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short) Poster

Marcia Hughes, James Bradford Terrell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This poster features a graphical representation of the authors’ proven Collaborative Growth® Team Model. The poster gives you and your team members the ability to visualize the core seven skills and to see the results and benefits a team will experience as it builds its Collaborative Intelligence.^TM

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Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI Short) , Facilitator's Guide Set

Marcia Hughes, James Bradford Terrell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Team Emotional and Social Intelligence, Facilitator Guide Set offers a unique set of tools for determining and developing your team's emotional effectiveness in the seven dimensions that are a prerequisite for high performance. Created by two leaders in the field of emotional Intelligence training, Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell, this workbook package is designed to inform you on the most current information on emotional and social

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Point, Click & Wow!: The Techniques and Habits of Successful Presenters, 3rd Edition

Claudyne Wilder — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

In Point, Click & Wow! you will find the insider knowledge of public speaking that we all need but were never taught. When Point, Click & Wow! was first published more than ten years ago, it quickly became the go-to resource for creating laptop presentations that have the "Wow" factor!

Completely reworked and updated, this new third edition puts the focus on you, the presenter, who must create a winning presentation every time.

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Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth, 2nd Edition

Alan Weiss — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

In this thoroughly revised edition of his classic book, Alan Weiss shows how consulting fees are dependent on only two things: value provided in the perception of the buyer and the intent of the buyer and the consultant to act ethically. Many consultants, however, fail to understand that perceived value is the basis of the fee, or that they must translate the importance of their advice into long-term gains for the client in the client's perception.

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A Coach's Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Developing Successful Leaders

James Bradford Terrell, Marcia Hughes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

A Coach s Guide to Emotional Intelligence is a groundbreaking book that combines the topics of coaching and emotional intelligence in a down-to-earth resource for coaches, facilitators, and consultants. The authors, James Bradford Terrell and Marcia Hughes two experts in the field of emotional intelligence training offer a number of elegant solutions that help coaches and their clients develop the authentic emotional skills needed to meet the challenges

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Mastering the Instructional Design Process: A Systematic Approach, 4th Edition

William J. Rothwell, H. C. Kazanas — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The fourth edition of Mastering the Instructional Design Process has been completely revised and updated and is based on the instructional design competencies of the International Board of Standards of Performance and Instruction (IBSTPI). The book identifies the core competencies of instructional system design and presents them in a way that helps to develop these competencies and apply them successfully in real-world settings.

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A Practical Guide to Training and Development: Assess, Design, Deliver, and Evaluate

Michael Moskowitz — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

To stay ahead of the competition, today s organizations must invest in ongoing training that continuously improves their employees knowledge and skills. A Practical Guide to Training and Development is a comprehensive resource that offers a theoretical, strategic, and practical foundation of the entire training process. The book outlines a step-by-step approach for assessing, designing, delivering and evaluating training.

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The Essential Guide to Training Global Audiences: Your Planning Resource of Useful Tips and Techniques

LuAnn Irwin, Renie McClay — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Essential Guide to Training Global Audiences is a groundbreaking book that offers a much-needed guide for anyone who must design and deliver excellent learning experiences for people from a culture other than their own. The book is filled with proven guidelines for multicultural training, solid techniques for training international adult learners, and advice for the preparation of culturally sensitive presentations.

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Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing

Curtis J. Bonk, Ke Zhang — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (R2D2: read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples,

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Applied Strategic Planning: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

Timothy N. Nolan, Leonard D. Goodstein, Jeanette Goodstein — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

This guidebook provides an overview to the proven Applied Strategic Planning process. Written for the planning team and other key members who will participate in the process, this important resource offers encouragement for the team who must provide data for the planning process and helps to identify questions for further discussion. The Applied Strategic Planning approach helps organizations identify their ideal future and develop a plan to achieve

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Applied Strategic Planning: Consultant's Toolkit, 2nd Edition

Timothy N. Nolan, Leonard D. Goodstein, Jeanette Goodstein — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Applied Strategic Planning: The Consultant's Toolkit is a powerful aid to consultants, facilitators and change agents engaged in implementing strategic planning with organizational- and executive-planning teams. This revised edition of the best-selling toolkit incorporates the most recent theory and research into strategic planning, as well as advances in the ASP model since the first edition was published.

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