From the author of the popular Big Book of Flip Charts comes a definitive reference of creative ideas, strategies and techniques guaranteed to enhance any adult learning environment.

Based on the author's three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment. Readers will learn new methods for:

• Setting the right tone
• Uncovering participant needs
• Grouping participants and selecting leaders
• Avoiding and reclaiming turnoffs
• Encouraging and rewarding participation

Filled with checklists, forms, resources, and dozens of "Bright Idea" blurbs, The Creative Training Idea Book will help trainers and trainees achieve maximum learning results.

Training With a Beat: The Teaching Power of Music by Lenn Millbower

204 Pages - Item #: 607-060	ISBN: 1-57922-000-2
Retail Price - $29.95 ea.	Our Price - $26.95 ea.

Music holds amazing power over us. While it permeates and gives rhythm to our lives, most of us take it for granted and rarely consider its impact and potential. Training with a Beat is a lively introduction to understanding that force, and applying it to training.

This practical "how-to" guide is written with the musical layperson in mind. The author reveals in straightforward language why music is a critical learning resource, explains the necessary concepts and terms, and concludes with vivid examples of practice and a list of suggested resources. He provides all the background and tools to enable trainers and educators confidently to use music to improve learning.

A valuable and extensive appendix lists recommended CD's and offers track-by-track examples of potential training applications.

Readers of this book will:

• Discover how music contributes to learning
• Understand music theory principles relevant to learning
• Know how to select music appropriate for different training situations
• Discover effective musical games and activities and how they teach
• Understand the related legal and copyright issues

This unique resource will be welcomed by trainers, facilitators, presenters and adult educators looking for additional tools to add impact to their material and improve learning outcomes.

Cartoons for Trainers: Seventy Five Cartoons to Use or Adapt for Transitions, Activities, Discussion Points, Ice Breakers and More with CD-ROM by Lenn Millbower and Doris Yager

176 Pages - Item #: 607-061	ISBN: 1-57922-055-X
Retail Price - $39.95 ea.	Our Price - $35.95 ea.

"You can use cartoons as metaphors for the subject at hand, help introduce or wrap-up key concepts, and ease transitions between learning segments. But reproduction fees for using cartoons in public can be expensive, and permissions hard to obtain." "Cartoons for Trainers offers a great solution. Here are seventy-five original cartoons - conceptualized by trainers for trainers - with a license that allows you to incorporate them in all your presentations."

"The cartoons focus on the transition points of any training program. Use them for setting objectives, as introductions, or as part of activities, case studies, role-plays, experiential learning, breaks, evaluations, and closings. They make good-natured fun of the everyday foibles trainers encounter, while addressing the fears that learners have toward training. Lenn Millbower also offers practical tips and guidance."

The cartoons are printed twice; once with captions, and once without, so you can create your own. The PC and Mac compatible image files in the accompanying CD also enable you to include and modify the cartoons in your presentation software.