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A top business consultant presents an eye-opening guide to fast, effective corporate change, based on successful experiences of organizations such as Marriott Hotel and Seattle Metro. "This approach made a real difference when we needed to move fast".--Donald Petersen, retired CEO, Ford Motor Company..
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This book has more ideas on how to add involvement in learning than any one trainer could ever use. Your students and workshop participants will increase their understanding and retention when you design training activities using 'The Winning Trainer'.

This updated and expanded edition is richer than ever before. It provides:
* more than 100 ready-made handouts, learning instruments, and worksheets... all you do is photocopy
* numerous examples, model dialogues, and sample answers
* hundreds of exercises, games, puzzles, role plays, icebreakers, and other group-in-action techniques
* samples of each technique and ways to effectively use them
* advice on subjects such as unwilling participants, use of the outdoors, breaks, program endings, and storytelling

Significant new additions to the book include materials on the following topics:
* new, easier to accomplish approaches to evaluation – ROE (Return on Expectations) and Customer Satisfaction as a business indicator
* a methodology to secure group feedback at the end of the program, concerning the trainer/facilitator's role and participation in the course
* an instrument for the early screening of likely obstacles when transferring training
* added techniques to ensure that training transfers to the job
* a demonstration of how to conduct a quick assessment of needs when under pressure to do so
* keys to successful training in other cultures
* several new instruments including how to assess one's prowess as a facilitator, how to assess trust in a team, and how to measure one's CQ (creativity quotient)

Two new chapters have been added to treat new material on intelligence and learning, principles of adult learning and distance learning. In addition, numerous new group-in-action techniques and conceptual materials have been added to the existing chapters.

This is the one-stop source book every trainer needs.

One of the top-selling resource books for HRD professionals and trainers.

An easy to use guidebook providing tests, tools, and exercises to improve employee education and performance by one of the leaders in the field..
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A humorous collection of the most clever college pranks ever committed describes how Harvard students hoisted the Soviet flag over the U.S. Supreme Court building during the Red Scare and other pranks and includes documentary photographs. .
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Formerly a SkyLight publication.

Educators recognize that making a connection with families can have a postive effect on student performance.176 Ways to Involve Parents is packed with realistic and ready-to-use ideas to help both teachers and administrators transform passive parents into eager educational partners. This resource presents:

• New and innovative ways to sustain ongoing communication with parents
• Ideas for making parents feel welcome
• Strategies for getting parents involved in school governance
• Techniques for developing parent volunteer programs, and more

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"This very accessible book is filled with practical, doable activities and ideas that will enhance the learning of students by involving parents in respectful, meaningful, and productive ways."
-Judy Chapman, District Principal, Curriculum
Instruction & Assessment, School District #34, Abbotsford, BC

"Dr. Boult has written the ultimate guide for helping school administrators and teachers create an effective partnership with parents. Any educational stakeholder (parent, teacher, administrator) will benefit from its content." -Connie Brownell, Teacher
Lester B. Pearson School Board, Montreal, QC

Use these practical strategies to engage parents and create more successful outcomes for students!

Would you like to see children score significantly higher on reading tests? Stay in school longer? Excel in academics? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you’re not alone! These goals, obtainable and achievable, are directly linked to parent involvement. By taking a committed role in their children’s education, parents make a direct, positive impact on academic achievement. With decades of research to support this claim, 176 Ways to Involve Parents, Second Edition, presents ready-to-use ideas to fully engage parents in the school community.

Containing numerous new strategies for building bridges between schools and families, this updated edition provides practical ways to:

• Welcome parents as vital members of the school community
• Sustain ongoing communication with families
• Include parents in school governance
• Develop parent volunteer programs
• Foster shared ownership of the educational process

By including parents as educational partners, schools can create a rich environment that fosters positive student self-esteem and academic success.

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Send these delightful activity sheets home with your kindergarteners and watch their skills and confidence grow. Based on the letters of the alphabet, these reproducibles give young students a chance to practice reading, writing, and math skills while getting families involved in their children`s learning. Engaging activity sheets are perfect for quick, ongoing assessments and for helping students meet state and federal standards. Includes a reproducible letter to parents, plus a chart that lets you quickly identify which activities reinforce which math skills..
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Mike and Amy Nappa provide an all-new collection of 70 active and interactive Bible-based illustrations to help pastors, speakers, and teachers spice up their Bible teaching by involving their adult listeners..
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Well-written, mercifully jargon-free and packed with knowledgeable advice, this is a primer for every 'new manager'.--Director.
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