Training Skills for Supervisors by Robert W. Lucas

92 pages - Item#: 995-502	ISBN 0-7863-0313-1
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More than ever, today's supervisors are assuming the key roles of trainer and coach to their staff. As today's employees are increasingly expected to learn new skills, take on additional responsibilities, and continue to help increase bottom-line profit, their managers are being asked to lead and train them. Many supervisors shy away from training because they feel unprepared or uncomfortable making group presentations and providing one-on-one coaching. Training Skills for Supervisors shows supervisors new to training-or ones who want to expand their knowledge of adult learning and training - techniques to better transfer knowledge and skills to their employees. Whether making group presentations or coaching one-on-one, this book provides the information and insights your need to make your job as a trainer easier and more effective.

High Performance Speaking by Snyde, M

100 pages - Item#: 796-006	ISBN: 0-7863-0222-4
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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.

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.

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.