A unique guide to teaching adults the way they learn best: by doing. Serving both the novice trainer and the seasoned professional, this useful handbook shows how to effectively design and conduct active, experientially-based training programs in private and public sector organizations. For the first time ever in a single volume, active training techniques are illustrated by over 200 actual, real-life designs and case examples culled from more than 35 training topics, including such diverse subject matter as project management, team building, selling skills, and stress management.

Active Training: A Handbook of Techniques, Designs, Case Examples, and Tips

Business & Money

Melvin L. Silberman

Management & Leadership

Lexington Books

This practical book helps parents and teachers to be both firm and caring with children of any age. It shows how to meet challenges to authority without power struggles, intimidation, or confusion.

How to Discipline Without Feeling Guilty: Assertive Relationships with Children

Susan A. Wheelan

Parenting & Relationships

Dutton Adult

Everyone is in the people business, because all of us deal with other people all the time. Thats why its smart to reap the benefits of this eminently practical guide. PeopleSmart details the eight essential skills of interpersonal intelligence and provides a powerful plan for becoming more effective in every relationship -- with supervisors, coworkers, a spouse, family and friends. 
 The authors present a realistic four-step plan for self-improvement. Theyll teach you to see the current depth of each skill in yourself, encourage you to develop it, provide clear suggestions for how to put it into action, and inspire you to live it every day. Nothing short of an interpersonal fitness plan complete with creative exercises, examples, and tools -- PeopleSmart will empower you to become the kind of person who can establish solid relationships, connect with others, and effectively link the their needs with what you have to offer. 
 "As e-commerce commoditizes the world, PeopleSmart is the preeminent intelligence. Seldom do you see scholars become this practical! Theoretically sound. Well researched. Very reader friendly!" -- Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

PeopleSmart: Developing Your Interpersonal Intelligence

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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