50 Ways to Teach Your Learner: Activities and Interventions for Building High-Performance Teams / Edition 1

by Edwin W. Rose, Steve Buckley

Overview

Practical Exercises + Active Theory = TEAM SUCCESS!Some books showyou how to structure experiential learning. Other books give you ashowcase of experiential initiatives. Few books have effectivelycombined experiential theory and practice. Until now! Ed Roseassembles a framework for learning-by-doing; then he gives youactive, practical exercises you'll use right away.In the past,you've had to struggle to encourage active participation. First,you stumbled through developing your own training design. Then youwaded through game books to find one with suitably dynamic,practical exercises. Now everything you need is in a single source.An active framework complemented by active initiatives — 50 Waysto Teach Your Learner has everything you need!Rose enables youto:
* Evaluate team-development needs
* Build an environment of trust and recognition
* Encourage adaptability and readiness for change
* Use simple and inexpensive props with maximum effect
* Conduct successful post-exercise debriefs . . . and much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787945046
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/07/1999
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

ED ROSE is currently training manager at Harris Semiconductor. He is the author of Presenting and Training with Magic and numerous team-building activities. He has thirty-two years' experience in manufacturing, has served as quality examiner for the State of Florida, and has published numerous papers on the subject of self-directed work teams.

Table of Contents

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the Authors
Part One: How to Use the Initiatives
Chapter One: Introduction to Experiential Learning
Chapter Two: Techniques for Facilitating ExperientialLearning
Chapter Three: How to Use Initiatives
Part Two: The Initiatives
Adaptable: Initiatives that highlight communication, planning, andgroup dynamics
Trustworthy: Initiatives that highlight trust and mutualrespect
Resourceful: Initiatives that highlight creativity, innovation,paradigms, breakthrough thinking, and problem solving
Optimistic: Initiatives that highlight moving beyond perceivedlimits, challenging biases, managing conflict, andbenchmarking
Considerate: Initiatives that highlight creativity, valuingdiversity, cooperation, and collaboration
Debrief and Warm Up: Initiatives that prepare participants forupcoming events
Appendix

Editorial Reviews

"Get off your seat and get active! Use these low-risk, low-costactivities to energize, excite, and build your team." —Sivasailam"Thiagi" Thiagarajan, editor, Thiagi GameLetter; president,Workshops by Thiagi

"Battling for the attention of the adult learner is a war that[Rose] knows how to win. Between the covers of this book there aremore than fifty things to be learned and experienced. Read, share,and celebrate." —Ray Green, CEO, Paradigm Learning

"I was simply blown away by the usefulness of this book inproviding a pathway to building effective teams. 50 Ways To TeachYour Learner is an absolute must-buy for anyone dealing with theissues of teams." —Harvey Robbins, coauthor, Why Teams Don'tWork

"Another home run for Ed Rose. This book is a fresh presentation ofgenuinely useful team development activities." —Tim Rumsey,president, Dynamic Learning; author, Not Just Games: UsingExperiential Learning to Drive Business Results

From the Publisher

Assembles a framework for learning by doing, then gives active, practical exercises for use in evaluating team-development needs, building an environment of trust and recognition, and encouraging adaptability and readiness to change. Material is centered around 50 easy-to-use experiential activities that are designed to facilitate group dynamics and allow participants to experience various levels of interpersonal dynamics in a hands-on learning environment. These activities can be used for a one- or two-day workshop. Activities can be used indoors or outdoors, with a minimum of set up and materials. Rose is a training manager at Harris Semiconductor in Palm Bay, Florida. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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