If you deal with difficult participants in your training sessions,you know the destructive effect they can have on their ownlearning, as well as on the group's learning process. This helpfulguide book provides you with the knowledge and skills needed todeal with almost any difficult participant. You'll learn first how to identify the types of difficultparticipants, and then how to decide which technique (127 in all)is best suited for dealing with that individual. Finally, you'lllearn the steps of each technique and how to achieve maximumresults. Learn to deal with "difficult participant" types such as: * The Latecomer * The Preoccupied * The Introvert * The Domineering . . . and more! Don't let difficult participants get the best of you. Maximize thelearning potential in all your training sessions with Dealing withDifficult Participants!

Dealing with Difficult Participants: 127 Practical Strategies for Minimizing Resistance and Maximizing Results in Your Presentations

Business & Money

Bob Pike

Arch, Dave

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

Go out with a BANG! They'll forget you as soon as you walk out the door . . . unlessyou make your training memorable. This essential resource is yourway to make your mark. Fifty ways to close your training sessionsand presentations so they won't forget you--or your training. Each activity lists the necessary time and equipment, a suggestedgroup size, and an intended purpose. You'll have no problem findinga closer that's just right for your needs. You'll get activities great for: * Making action plans * Reviewing material * Celebrating success * Motivating participants . . . and more! Solem and Pike show you all the essentials, and preparation isquick and easy. This book is training dynamite: make it your secretweapon today!

50 Creative Training Closers

Lynn Solem

Reinforce your content and message with Red Hot Handouts! 
No longer do training sessions have to be boring. Now you can use these fun and clever reproducible handouts to create optical illusions, puzzle participants and add elements of wonder. You can modify and adjust the graphics, interactive activities, and templates to enliven your next presentation. These templates are so flexible that you'll be able to find a tool suitable for any setting! You'll get 75 reproducible handouts including: <ul>
<li>Optical illusions to challenge perception</li> <li>Word puzzles to perplex the mind</li> <li>Magic tricks to evoke imagination . . . and much more!</li> </ul>
"Handouts are an integral part of our training to reinforce learning back on the job. They are a valuable tool to involve participants during the training program--and keep them coming back afterwards!" --Bob Pike, CSP president, Creative Training Techniques Press

Red Hot Handouts : Taking the HO HUM out of Handouts

Dave Arch

Pfeiffer & Co.

Go straight to the source and solve the problem! More and more often, trainers are expected not only to provide training as a solution to a problem, but to indentify the problem in the first place. This book is your guide to meeting this increasing demand. You'll learn how to train one-on-one using: <ul>
<li>Role Plays</li> <li>Case Studies</li> <li>Videos</li> <li>Games</li> <li>Field Trips...and much more!</li> </ul>

One-on-One Training: How to Effectively Train One Person at a Time

Open your next training session with a BANG! One of the hardest tasks you'll face as a trainer is pullingparticipants' thoughts away their daily duties long enough toengage them in your training. According to training master BobPike, two of the most important learning concepts are "primacy" and"recency." People don't remember middles; they remember beginnings("primacy") and ends ("recency"). That's why, if you want yourtraining to be a success, you have to gain their attention as soonas they walk in the door. Following up on the success of 50 Creative Training Closers, themost trusted and recognized names in training bring you 50 CreativeTraining Openers and Energizers. These lively, interactive sessionopeners, ice breakers, and attention grabbers are what you need toinspire continued application, learning, and skill development. Andyou don't have to be a professional trainer to use thiscollection--business presenters and educators of all kinds canimmediately incorporate these creative designs into their work.

50 Creative Training Openers and Energizers

Job Hunting & Careers

Don't leave money sitting on the table! So many trainers open with housekeeping details or close with an off-hand remark about running late. Yet the opening and closing of your workshops are critical training real estate! Time is money and wasting opportunities like this is like leaving money on the table. This latest edition of the SCORE! series brings you more than 50 new, never before published exercises for opening your trainings with impact, closing with action planning, revisiting content in ways that increase retention to at least 80 percent, and energizing your learners to ensure they stay fresh and attentive. Maximize impact in your sessions without starting from scratch! You can immediately use these activities. You will want this book in your library for quick reference.

SCORE 3: Super Closers, Openers, Revisiters, Energizers

Becky Pike Pluth

Rich Meiss

Karen Carlson

Scott Enebo

Janice Horne

Ayako Nakamura

Jaime Pylant

Marc Ratcliffe

Adrianne Roggenbuck

Priscilla Shumway

Creative Training Productions, LLC

Powerful Presentations, Volume 2 contains 52 graphic organizers, audience-centered learning activities and bounce-back strategies for increasing retention in teaching and training.

Powerful Presentations: 52 Strategies Guaranteed to Make Your Message More Memorable

Betsy Allen

Skills

Creative Training Techniques Pr

Meet Bob Workman. Bob likes his job. Bob likes his employees. Bob considers himself a good manager, but senses low morale among his immediate staff members. In this easy-to-read business fable, a chance encounter transforms Bob’s work life as he sets out to discover how fun can revolutionize a worksite and pay big dividends in both morale and return on investment. Bob discovers that a fun work environmentone that lifts people’s spirits and reminds them of their value to their managers, their organization, and to each otheris a primary need for employees. He sets off on a quest to find ways to create a fun environment and develops a method to produce convincing evidence that creating a fun work environment is worth the time and effort for the company.

The Fun Minute Manager

John W. Newstrom

Robert C. Ford

Human Resources

Creative Training Techniques Press

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