675 ways to develop yourself and your people : strategies, ideas and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace

We all struggle as professionals to stay on top of our game. Here is a book with hundreds of practical ways to take control of moving your career in the direction you want to go and of helping your people do the same. 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People reflects the real needs of real people in today s workplace. You ll gain exercises, activities and strategies that will help you develop your ability to build positive work relationships, change an aspect of your interpersonal behavior, come across as powerful in meetings, listen, make decisions, survive a downsizing and much more. The engaging and hands-on resource provides a set of 50 individual learning opportunities and over 600 ideas, techniques and activities for making the most of the learning opportunities. Each module begins with an overview of the subject and moves on to exercises in easy-to-use Individual tasks and reflections Working with others a peer, colleague or partner Working with a mentor Developing others exercises for facilitators to use in groups Useful Web sites You can pick up this book and start wherever you like. You ll be amazed at how many opportunities you face each day to learn with and from your co-workers, facilitate the development process in others and travel purposefully through your life. Contents......Page 3 Introduction......Page 5 1 Achieving Ambitions with Goal Setting......Page 7 2 Balancing Life and Work......Page 11 3 Basics of Transactional Analysis......Page 16 4 Building Positive Work Relationships......Page 22 5 Career Planning......Page 27 6 Changing Interpersonal Behavior......Page 32 7 Coaching Others......Page 36 8 Conducting Interviews......Page 39 9 Counseling in the Workplace......Page 44 10 Creating a Wellness Program......Page 48 11 Critical Thinking......Page 53 12 Delegating......Page 58 13 Developing Emotional Intelligence......Page 64 14 Developing Leadership......Page 69 15 Empowering Others......Page 75 16 Facilitating Learning......Page 80 17 Generating Creative Solutions......Page 85 18 Giving and Receiving Feedback......Page 90 19 Increasing Self-Esteem......Page 95 20 Increasing Your Power at Meetings......Page 100 21 Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming......Page 108 22 Listening Skills......Page 112 23 Making Decisions......Page 117 24 Managing Change......Page 122 25 Managing Your Anger......Page 126 26 Mentoring......Page 130 27 Motivating Others......Page 135 28 Networking......Page 139 29 Performance Management......Page 142 30 Physical Stress Management......Page 145 31 Planning Skills......Page 151 32 Presentation Skills......Page 155 33 Psychological Stress Management......Page 160 34 Recognizing and ExpressingYour Emotions......Page 166 35 Resolving Conflict......Page 170 36 Responding to Negativity in Others......Page 174 37 Rethinking Your Values......Page 179 38 Returning to Learning......Page 182 39 Self-directed Learning in the Workplace......Page 186 40 Skills and Strengths Analysis......Page 189 41 Speaking Skills......Page 197 42 Surviving Downsizing......Page 201 43 Tactics for Negotiation......Page 207 44 Tapping Your Personal Power......Page 212 45 Team Building......Page 216 46 Time Management......Page 221 47 Using Effective Questioning......Page 226 48 Valuing Diversity......Page 229 49 Verbal and Nonverbal Language......Page 233 50 Working with Gender Differences......Page 238 Increase your understanding of facilitation and learn interventions and exercises you can use with others. This resource manual provides managers, trainers and consultants a format based on the core skills facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will face at work. The Fast Facilitator shows the difference facilitation skills can make in helping people learn, be more self-aware, be more flexible in their thinking and behavior and build their self-confidence. The manual is organized into three parts covering a huge amount of groundwork: Essential facilitation, group and team faci Offers readers with practical ways to take control of moving a career in the direction they want to go - and of helping their people do the same. This book includes exercises, activities and strategies that help develop the ability to build positive work relationships, and change an aspect of interpersonal behavior.