This best-selling text presents a broad, integrative overview of group dynamics presented in a well researched, readable, and experiential format. This text introduces readers to the theory and research findings needed to understand how to make groups effective, and it helps build the skills required to apply that knowledge in practical situations ...
This guide offers 50 proven exercises any manager can use without spending lots of money. These group activities are designed with the non-trainer in mind. It features a special chapter on troubleshooting and dealing with unexpected difficulties in team-building.
Working in Groups provides students with strategies for using theory and contemporary research findings to enhance group communication, group productivity, and member satisfaction. Using balance as a framework for looking at how groups work and "how to" work in groups, Working in Groups imparts students with tools for successful communication in ...
A collection of 125 acting exercises that are based on journal excerpts and dialogues from Mr. Morris' classes. These exercises teach the actor to systematically eliminate his or her instrumental obstacles -- tensions, fears, inhibitions -- and explore the "being" state, where the actor does no more and no less than what he or she feels.
How often have you tried to get a training program underway only to be met by silent stares from your audience? Or started a session with a bang and watched it fizzle out as the course progressed? Here's the book that can help you break the ice and get participants to really participate. It's packed with over 100 different exercises, activities, ...
Known for its wealth of relevant, practical, and up-to-date information, Communicating in Small Groups continues to provide a balance of principles and applications of group communication. With additional emphasis on teamwork, technology, and ethical collaboration, Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices helps students enhance ...
This text examines in depth the roles that techniques play in group counselling and provides direction for counsellors and future counsellors on how to develop and use techniques suitable for their own situations. Many specific examples of techniques are discussed, such as dealing with involuntary groups, creating trust and working with conflict. ...
More than ever, effective human relations skills are crucial to business success as organizations grow and compete in a global business environment. Employees must have the knowledge and skill to adapt to a workplace where change is frequent and inevitable. Using time-tested, research-based psychology and management principles, as well as newer ...
When it was published in 1994, Roger Schwarz's "The Skilled Facilitator" earned widespread critical acclaim and became a landmark in the field. The book is a classic work for consultants, facilitators, managers, leaders, trainers, and coaches anyone whose role is to facilitate and guide groups toward realizing their creative and problem solving ...
Written as an interactive dialogue with the reader, Masterful Coaching emphasizes core coaching skills--sponsoring, counseling, acknowledging, teaching and confronting. Provides examples of coaching for breakthrough results from leading companies.
A collection of skill-building and self evaluation exercises, the author's comprehensive, workbook style text promotes his philosophy that students learn group leadership skills best by first practicing then in the class. It will discuss topics central to a successful understanding of group leadership and its key aspects.
Building on the success of the original, "More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers" gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders 50 all-new exercises for bringing teams together and achieving phenomenal results! Readers will find fast, proven, and practical activities for building new teams, finding creative ways to work together and ...
In this thoroughly updated edition of his classic book, Hargrove introduces you to Masterful Coaching, the method, Hargrove draws on his in-depth experience of coaching leaders at all levels gained since writing the first edition. The book provides guiding ideas, tools, and methods that will empower you on your own journey to Masterful Coaching. ...
"Pence and Paymar are right on target again. Their analysis of battering is excellent and their approach...is straightforward, useful and clear. [The book] tells you what to do with abusive men and how to do it well. [The authors] challenge practitioners to do their work in a manner that is compassionate yet never colluding. Accountability and ...
Pfeiffer is actively engaged in publishing insightful human resource development (HRD) materials. The organization has earned an international reputation as the leading source of practical resources that are immediatley useful to today's consultants, trainers, facilitators, and managers in a variety of industries. All materials are designed by ...
Effective Human Relations draws upon the latest research plus the expertise and experiences of the authors to present a comprehensive and critical treatment of human relations in the workplace. Students will gain an understanding of what it takes to be successful in the world of work as we enter a new century. The text's prominent focus is on ...
What strategies and techniques can we teach our students to encourage their growth in human relations success on and off the job? How can students tap into the power that comes from working well in one-on-one situations, in groups, and in organizations both big and small? "Human Relations: Strategies for Success" attempts to provide answers to ...
This introductory text for group communication courses presents both classic and current theories of small group communication. Instructors have praised the authors' attention to balancing theory and practice, and students appreciate the text' s utility and academic focus.Chapter 11, "Motivation and Groups," examines the differences ...
Experiential therapy is used to locate repressed feelings and re-experience them. Once we feel them in the present, we can come to terms with them and put them in their proper perspective. We can use our energies to truly enter into the moment with all our awareness. The quality of our happiness lies in our ability to experience what is around us. ...
"Behavior in Organizations, 8/e", by Shani and Lau, takes a hands-on, experiential approach to organization behavior. The majority of the exercises, role-playing simulations, and cases were developed in and for management training workshops. The cases themselves represent different industries and organizations around the globe with diverse size, ...
When her own husband's unfaithfulness is publicly unveiled, famous relationship expert Lynn Wyman loses her credibility. She decides to regain it by teaching Brandon Brock--recently featured on the cover of Fortune as "America's Toughest Boss"--how to communicate with women. If she can teach this notorious alpha male to be Mr. Sensitive Man, her ...
Presents a summary of the philosophy of the Industrial Arts Foundation by its current leader and an account of its extraordinary founder, Saul Alinsky.
This revision of an important and path-breaking work holds to its central argument that troubled young people can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only through commitment to the positive values of helping and caring for others. The authors contend that the young people who populate our nationas schools are in desperate ...
Get any training session off the ground fast or jumpstart one whenever it lags - with more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling "Games Trainers Play" series. Their names may range from "Tombstone Planning" to "The 'Nobel' Prize Winner," but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission ...
If you are a teacher, counselor, peer helper, or group leader, these books -- designed for groups of all sizes and ages -- are for you. Instill motivation for your group through understanding, trust, and excitement! Create interest in your classroom through involvement, motivation, and interaction! Enhance orientation sessions and increase ...
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