1,001 Ways to Make More Money as a Speaker, Consultant or Trainer: Plus 300 Rainmaking Strategies for the Dry Times by Lily Walters

208 Pages - Item #: 604-068	ISBN: 007142802X
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1,001 Ways to Make More Money as a Speaker, Consultant, or Trainer draws upon best selling author Lilly Walters' lifetime of experience as a top speaker and consultant. She also combed through a recent survey of more than 7,000 speakers, consultants and trainers who were asked to describe their revenue-generating strategies. The result is a priceless compendium of sure-fire income generating tips, tricks, strategies, and techniques that no speaker, consultant, trainer, or seminar leader will want to be without.

• More than 1,300 proven strategies to help speakers, trainers, and consultants to grow their incomes in any economic climate
• Includes the best practices of thousands of successful speakers, trainers, and consultants
• A quick-reference format featuring simple bulleted sentences categorized by topic

How to Measure Training Results by Jack Phillips & Ron Stone

300 Pages - Item #: 604-043	ISBN: 0071387927
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How to Measure Training Results presents practical tools for collecting and measuring six types of data critical to an overall evaluation of training. This timely resource:

• Includes dozens of reproducible tools and processes for training evaluation
• Shows how to measure both financial and intangible/non-financial results

High Performance Speaking by Snyde, M

100 pages - Item#: 796-006	ISBN: 0-7863-0222-4
Retail $10.95	Our Price $8.95 ea.

Covers interactive speaking and presentation skills with the aim of making presentations less lecture-based and more focused on audience-speaker interaction. Through active learning exercises, the author shows how to add zest and action to presentations.

Backstage Pass for Trainers, Facilitators and Publish Speakers by Susan J. Jones

136 Pages - Item#: 606-003	ISBN: 1-4129-15012-5
Retail $22.95	Our Price $19.95 ea.

This little book is a do-it-yourself speaking coach, mentor, and image consultant rolled into one!
Confident and effective communication is a skill every public speaker craves and every exceptional speaker continually hones. Effective presentations require preparation, savvy performance, and sound communication to win audience approval and "buy-in." Inside Backstage Pass for Presenters, Trainers, and Public Speakers you will find strategies to help you do just that, including:

• Designing audience handouts and seating the audience
  
• Maintaining group energy and timing group work
  
• Working with angry and challenging audiences
  
• Structuring breaks for more active audience participation
  
• Quality closers that highlight session gains
  
• Self-evaluation assessments that include feedback from colleagues
  
• Lists of Q&A’s and Do’s and Don’ts

This practical yet humorous handbook demonstrates how to get your point across and win your audience-by zeroing in on the keys to successful communication, whether your goal is to bring a change in ideas, attitude, or performance from your audience.

Top Tunes for Teaching by Eric P. Jensen

80 Pages - Item #: 605-020	ISBN 1-890460-43-5
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Formerly a publication of The Brain Store

Choose the right music every time! Music is a powerful classroom tool that enhances cognition, improves memory, energizes sluggish learners, and makes lessons fun for students of all ages.

This resource offers practical tips, suggestions, and lists of songs all personally tested by Eric Jensen during his own trainings, and based on scientific research that supports music’s beneficial effects.

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

204 Pages - Item #: 607-060	ISBN: 1-57922-000-2
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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.

The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music 5th Ed. by Jeff Green

1569 Pages - Item #: 606-055	ISBN 0-939735-20-2
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Have you ever wondered, "Who sang that song" when you hear it on the radio?" "What year did that song come out?" or "What song would be good to use at a wedding or in the classroom?" Well wonder no more! Whether you are a trainer, educator, presenter, meeting planner, or just someone who wants to know more about songs, this indispensable resource has all your answer. Now in it's 5th edition, The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music gives information about finding songs about any subject instantly. This new music reference book locates songs and album tracks by themes and concepts, representing all genres and eras, with listings including titles, artists, discographies and labels. A must have for anyone needing music or information about music for any reason or environment. 6 pounds of pure music knowledge and trivia!

The Adult Learner by Robin Fogarty

112 Pages - Item #: 207-011	ISBN: 0-9747-4163-9
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The Adult Learner: Some Things We Know addresses the "warrior" who rises to the challenge of teaching the adult learner. The discussion is designed as a catalyst for dialogue about the adult learner and to uncover the complexities of teaching this rare and riveting species.

This book is organized around three interlocking themes: some things we know about the adult learner; some things we know about change; and some things we know about professional development. In the process of reading the book, the reader gets a glimpse into the research that supports the theory of the adult learner, into the principles that guide the learning practices of the adult learner, and into the strategies that "work in the work setting" for the adult learner.

The Assistant Principal by Catherine Marshall & Richard M. Hooley

208 Pages - Item #: 207-014	ISBN: 0-7619-3152-X
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Gain a new perspective for revitalizing the assistant principalship!

While assistant principals play vital administrative roles, little attention has been granted to their training, selection, motivation, and job satisfaction. In this updated edition, Catherine Marshall and Richard M. Hooley focus on understanding the assistant principalship, uncovering problems, and identifying new solutions for these important school leaders.

This foundational resource provides a comprehensive study of what assistant principals do, who they are, and how these administrators-in-training can take charge of their careers. Unique issues highlighted within include

• Policy concerns in the assistant principal role
• The assistant as gateway to upper administrative mobility
• The importance of support and motivation
• The dependency on principals and their leadership style

This essential handbook supports the intrinsic value of the assistant principalship, while providing direction for improving the current system, evaluating methods of recruitment, and posing new metaphors and models for the position.

101 Stunts for Principals by Frank Sennett

168 Pages - Item #: 307-020	ISBN: 0-7619-8836-X
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“Contrary to popular belief, school can be fun. Frank Sennett's motivational stunts provide examples that make learning an enjoyable experience. These humorous suggestions challenge and encourage students to succeed. Principals can choose a stunt level that they are comfortable with and go from there. Let the adventure begin!”
Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director
National Association of Secondary School Principals

101 creative, fun, and tested ways to help raise student achievement!

Students tend to respond academically when they believe their teachers and administrators are taking a positive personal interest in their education. Many principals and educators often employ motivational stunts as rewards and as learning tools for their K-8 students as one sure way of motivating academic achievement. Frank Sennett’s user-friendly book outlines 101 motivational stunts educators can use to creatively inspire and motivate students to higher academic achievement. He lists scores of ideas that are easy to replicate, and accompanies them with successful case studies from across the country.

After describing each motivational stunt the author offers:

• Suggestions for related cross-curricular activities
• Tips for avoiding problems
• Additional resources worth exploring
• References to complementary stunts to mix and match for students’ delight
• A silliness rating of 1-5 for each stunt to help each educator with their personality and "comfort level" of performing in public

101 Stunts for Principals to Inspire Student Achievement Students is a sure-fire method of achieving great academic heights and producing a closer-knit educational community.

The Principal's Guide to Budgeting by Richard Sorenson & Lloyd M. Goldsmith

232 Pages - Item #: 307-021	ISBN: 1-4129-2532-0
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"I highly recommend this book to budget committees, site-based groups, educational administration professors, and new administrators. There are many examples provided that can be used right now in schools during a budgeting cycle."
—Darin Drill, Principal
Cascade High School, Turner, OR

Align organizational goals with a sound fiscal accountability system!

Effective administrative practices, both budgetary and academic, are continually being redefined at all levels by state, district, and school deregulation, decentralization, and restructuring. Keeping up with all the changes and meeting expectations is a challenge.

This unique budgetary survival guide will enhance your instructional, technical, and managerial skills not only as the school’s leader, but also as the school’s visionary, planning coordinator, and budgeting manager. You will find an overview of school budgeting practices within a collaborative decision-making context, and ways to link educational goal development and resource allocation management.

Special features include:

• Discussion questions
• Case study applications and problems
• Experiential activities
• Budgeting checklist for administrators
• Selected templates, forms, and resources

This valuable desk resource is intentionally organized into brief, single-topic-focused chapters, which will teach you how to develop a budget, monitor funds, manage budget reports, and prepare school action plans that are aligned with a strong fiscal accountability system.

Leading for Results by Dennis Sparks

248 Pages - Item #: 307-022	ISBN: 1-4129-4970-X
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"Sparks rejects simplistic solutions to school improvement, and honors the practical knowledge and expertise of educators."
—Richard DuFour, Educational Author and Consultant

"Dennis Sparks has given us a practical, original, and tough-minded book about what schools need now. An excellent book—but even more, a book to act on."
—Mike Schmoker, Consultant and Author

"In this inventive 'self-help’'handbook for educators, Dennis Sparks challenges and helps us—not to do something but to be something different."
—Roland S. Barth, Author, Lessons Learned

Improve teaching and learning in your school by fostering personal and organizational change!

Authentic or transformational leadership flows from self-awareness regarding intentions, values, and feelings and its influence is reflected in a leader's actions. Leading for Results, Second Edition, focuses on the educational leader's role in actualizing human potential and unleashing individual and organizational energy, while promoting extraordinary performance in "ordinary" people by first changing within oneself.

In this updated edition featuring 18 new interactive essays, Dennis Sparks shows how school leaders can promote extraordinary changes, be accountable, and achieve meaningful results for schools, districts, and their personal lives. Using bold theories about education, leadership, teaching, and student learning, you'll learn how to make change happen, create usable strategies, commit to action, and achieve goals by

• Examining your assumptions and producing results-oriented thoughts, words, and actions
• Deepening your understanding of important issues related to the interpersonal challenges of change
• Engaging in next-action thinking and applying what you've learned

This powerful resource helps leaders to recognize their capacity for making a tremendous difference in their organizations, ensuring ultimate success!

101 Movie Clips that Teach and Train by Rebecca Pluth

207 Pages - Item #: 607-001	ISBN: 978-0-9794103-0-7
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101 Movie Clips that Teach and Train is a time saver for trainers and educators at all levels. Grab your audience’s attention immediately, and take the discussion quickly to the next level through the debrief questions. Questions start out safely asking about the movie clip itself and then move into personal application questions. This design invites learners of all types to be comfortable talking about any topic and gets them speaking openly faster than lecture.

Movie clips provide poignant teaching points without wasting a lot of valuable time viewing the whole film in class. The book provides information on how to get a license, movie plotlines, scene description, cue times, teaching topics and application questions.

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
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"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.