Product Description: A practical collection of 50 "activities" focusing on team building and team training, providing facilitators, trainers, managers and meeting planners with a variety of tools to increase team effectiveness. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book is intended both as supplementary reading for courses and as a practical guidebook for individuals and programs interested in reducing prejudice and improving intergroup relations. It provides the only comprehensive review and compilation of techniques of improving intergroup relations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Zastrow's book is a rich resource and hands-on guide that students like to keep for future reference. This ten-part book has each chapter module broken down into a particular format. First, the goal of the chapter is stated; then the chapter provides the theoretical material for the class; and then, exercises are given to illustrate the key concepts in the chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents everything trainers need to design and deliver a two-day workshop that covers listening, assertiveness, resolving conflict, and conversations for co-ordinating action. The trainer will learn about the most current trends in interpersonal-communication training, including: task-by-task processes for training; proven methods such as accelerated learning and action learning; a "performance" orientation; and a focus on communication skills for collaboration and organizational learning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Conducting the Experiential Group: An Introduction to Group Dynamics is designed to provide a basic reference for both the group member and the group leader who might be in need of understanding and conducting a small group experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Human Resource Development, 3rd Edition, is the revised and expanded version of a book that has helped launch many successful training careers.With a clear and concise blending of learning theory and field-tested procedures, Human Resource Development provides an up-to-date self-development guide for the new trainer—and a handy reference for the seasoned professional...read more

This is a practical guide to when and how to use small group work in a range of healthcare settings. It provides a practical summary incorporating healthcare, educational, social and management perspectives.

Product Description: This introduction to leading group therapy takes an experiential approach to the discipline, and is written with the beginning group practitioner in mind. The experiential aspect of this book reflects the needs of both the seasoned and novice counselor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Project sponsors can have a tremendous impact on the success of key projects. However, in reality, they miss the mark and are often uninvolved or over-involved and confused about their roles. The purpose of this guide is to help managers add value as sponsors of cross-functional projects; including development projects, information system projects, organizational change projects, and process improvement projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Leading a meeting? giving a presentation? Heading a workshop? Icebreakers are great for lightening up the atmosphere at the beginning of a meeting or event, and encouraging everyone to participate fully. This collection of 50 icebreakers is organized around common business situations and is designed to help leaders start every session, meeting, presentation, or workshop with a burst of energy and fun...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book is filled with fun and interactive group games to help groups bond and get to know one another at a deeper level! You can use the activities to lead a group through the stages of team-building that every group must flow through when bonding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Now in its seventh edition, this book provides readers with a careful balance of theory, applications, and skills. This new edition includes expanded coverage of teams and teamwork, ethical collaboration, using technology in groups and teams, as well practical tools, techniques and principles to enhance problem-solving and decision-making. Expanded coverage of critical thinking methods that include the latest research findings. The authors have provided enhanced coverage and examples of business applications, ethics, as well as more significant coverage of leadership and meetings. Research and technology, including group and team deliberation and Internet research, give the reader the most current information available for these evolving topics. A text-specific website, http://awlonline.com/beebe supports the text with activities, links, and other aids related to small group communication, as well as an online Study Guide. Anyone interested in small group communication issues (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book brings together a timely collection of new and important essays by an international group of well-known authors. It provides reflections and insights on the past, present, and future of the 'group relations' approach, as well as its impact on management, organizations, and institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Let's face it, marriage is not an easy, cruise-control kind of thing. It takes work, sometimes very hard work. Have you had those moments in your marriage where it felt so unnatural to be married to your spouse? Do you remember times when your relationship was best described by the bee-bop tune"Where Did Our Love Go...read more

Product Description: This text provides information on facilitating a meeting or conference. It focuses on how a group communicates and performs, and on how to solve such common problems as uneven participation or poor follow-up.

Product Description: Use this powerful collection of experiential learning activities to confront―and eliminate―difficult organizational problems. All the designs are devoted to changing hidden attitudes, assumptions, and values that people seldom even acknowledge, but that often sabotage even successful companies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An immensely valuable resource book for drama leaders, House of Games is a how-to book for building up drama troupes and keeping them creative. House of Games is sure to take its place alongside the most established drama method texts. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Today's organizations are using teams to carry out tasks and solve problems. To get the job done, your managers and team leaders need to communicate and cooperate. Facilitation is the skill that saves the day! This workshop shows your employees how to become effective facilitators, and great facilitators promote employee commitment and satisfaction, and augment team performance and problem solving...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Alexander Berzin introduces a series of techniques for overcoming insensitivity and hypersensitivity. Based on traditional Buddhist sources, they are presented in non-traditional forms suitable for workshops and private practice. The exercises deal with difficult, everyday situations and show how to access our mind's natural talents; dispel nervousness, insecurity, and low self-esteem; make decisions; deconstruct deceptive appearances; and recognize the clear light nature of the mind...read more

Product Description: From the authors of the most phenomenally successful training series of all time comes a second huge collection of ice-breakers, brain teasers, problem solvers, and session closers that have been chosen to train for the skills today's companies are seeking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)