This book presents a comprehensive toolkit of the most important topics facing organizations today including managing change, launching organizational initiatives, facilitating teams, goal setting and planning, creative problem solving, building cooperation and trust, and team development.

This title draws on the expertise of top-flight trainers and consultants to present a comprehensive toolkit of the best training activities, group learning exercises, assessment instruments, handouts, and other essential guides for today's busy training and performance professional. The sourcebook offers fully reproducible tools contained on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Here's the ""must have"" reference book for anyone involved in training, human resources development, and workplace learning. Published by the most trusted name in the industry, ""The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals"" is a required tool for all learning professionals. This practical ""go to"" resource is a new contribution to the field, comprising 50+ chapters, each authored by renowned industry practitioners. The handbook offers the most up-to-date methodologies and practices covering the entire range of the training and development profession and also includes valuable worksheets and tools on a companion CD-ROM.

Contains tools needed in areas such as e-learning, communication skills, diversity and cross-cultural awareness, performance improvement, and management development - Back cover.

This comprehensive companion volume to the bestselling ASTD Training and Development Handbook (Craig, ed.) helps trainers design classroom, self-study, or technology-based training programs. Delivering the latest information on how adults learn best and human performance technology, it shows trainers how to prepare lesson plans, create visual aids, and deliver highly memorable presentations.

Eleven classroom-tested games that can be mixed, matched, and modified for any training objective. Facilitate and evaluate your learning game play with the right combination of paper exercises, card games, board games, and unconventional activities that require a variety of unique props. Training Games provides a convenient game-use matrix to help you select the best games for your objectives. Templates and worksheets, included on the CD-ROM, allow for immediate classroom application.

Within the context of higher education, teamwork and collaboration have become integral to organizational success. While there remains inherent complexity to developing high performing teams in higher education, many institutions have prioritized the integration of collaboration efforts, goal attainment, and student support. Academic excellence achieved through teamwork prioritizes improved student engagement, innovative teaching methods, and collaborative research environments. Developing Effective and High-Performing Teams in Higher Education explores the strategies, best practices, and case studies for developing effective higher education teams. It brings together diverse insights on effective academic collaboration to achieve a myriad of higher education goals. This book covers topics such as student culture, education psychology, and information sharing, and is a valuable resource for educators, administrators, policymakers, academicians, and researchers.