This text offers a comprehensive presentation of the vital aspects of supervision with a focus on practical advice about how to handle real-life, on-the-job situations. In this revision, the author has recognized the ever-changing social and work environment and has updated the text with current trends and situations and the latest professional concepts of supervisory practice. The text is arranged with an emphasis on inquiry learning, which presents the key concepts in a clear and concise manner. A wide variety of exercises, applications, and margin notes help to further the learning process.

Supervision: Managing for Results

Business & Money

BITTEL, Lester R.

Newstrom, John W.

Management & Leadership

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co

Human Behavior at Work: Organizational Behavior (MCGRAW HILL SERIES IN MANAGEMENT)

Davis, Keith

Mcgraw-Hill College

Get any training session off the ground fastor jumpstart one whenever it lagswith the more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from ``Tombstone Planning'' to ``The `Nobel' Prize Winner,'' but these brilliant offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together. Page after page of fun, easy-to-plant tearout exercises help you: break the ice and get particpants acquainted; shake up outworn habits and perceptions; challenge with thought-provoking brainteasers; test learning and retention; develop communication and listening skills; bring out and involve particpant-leaders; win back lethargic, distracted, low-energy groups; encourage creative problem-solving; boost or reinforce a group's self-image; forge cohesive work teams that value group effort; facilitate transfer of training to the job.

Games Trainers Play (McGraw-Hill Training Series)

Scannell, Edward E.

McGraw=Hill

Announcing the fourth and newest edition to the best-selling training games series of all time! Even More Games Trainers Play, Edward Scannell and John Newstrom pick up where they left off in previous Games Trainers Play guides. You'll find fully-explained, ready-to-use icebreakers, brainteasers, problem-solvers and session closers that target the skills you need to teach most--communication, listening, presentation, leadership, creative problem-solving and more. Each game can be played in under 30 minutes and implemented at little or no cost. What's more, this edition focuses in on today's ``hot topics'' of team building, quality initiatives and quality in customer service.

Even More Games Trainers Play

A Contingency Approach to Management: Readings (McGraw-Hill Series in Management)

McGraw-Hill Companies

Get any training session off the ground fast or jump start one whenever it lags with the more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from "Tombstone Planning" to "The 'Nobel' Prize Winner," but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together.
Page after page of fun, easy-to-plan tear-out exercises help you:
<ul>
<li>Break the ice and get participants acquainted</li>
<li>Shake up outworn habits and perceptions</li>
<li>Challenge with thought-provoking brainteasers</li>
<li>Test learning and retention</li>
<li>Develop communication and listening skills</li>
<li>Bring out and involve participant-leaders</li>
<li>Win back lethargic, distracted, low-energy groups</li>
<li>Encourage creative problem-solving;</li>
<li>Boost or reinforce a group's self-image</li>
<li>Forge cohesive work teams that value group effort</li>
<li>Facilitate transfer of training to the job</li>
</ul>

Still More Games Trainers Play

Break the ice at your next meeting with The Big Book of Business Games! In this exciting resource book, two of today's acknowledged games masters serve up a cookbook of activities that you can learn to use, guaranteed to generate a lively discussion, or simply give a group a "breather" from the monotony of a boring staff meeting or presentation. Each of the 75 group games and activities here is adapted from the best-selling Games Trainers Play series and shortened to suit the needs of managers and team leaders to use with their departments, staff, or committees.

The Big Book of Business Games: Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises and Meeting Energizers

Don't let the audience snooze through any of your presentations! How do you keep an audience from becoming bored or restless during a presentation? Find out with The Big Book of Presentation Games. Each game in The Big Book of Presentation Games is fast, fun, creative, and easy-to-read, and easy-to-lead, and costs little or nothing. Categories also include: great session-openers; icebreakers; climate-setting games; practical jokes and tricks; audience brainteasers; motivation activities; memorable closing activities; and much more!

The Big Book of Presentation Games: Wake-Em-Up Tricks, Icebreakers, and Other Fun Stuff

Industries

This revised text includes many new topics and concepts from contemporary organizational behaviour literature and actual practice. In addition to maintaining the style and learning aids of past editions, this edition includes many real company examples. The text covers systems models; employee communication asnd employee attitudes; and empowerment and participation.

Organizational Behavior: Human Behavior at Work

Get any training session off the ground fast-- or jumpstart one whenever it lags--with more than 400 proven activities in the bestselling Games Trainers Play series. Their names may range from ``Tombstone Planning'' to ``The `Nobel' Prize Winner,'' but these brilliantly offbeat, unexpected, disarming, fully reproducible games have one serious mission: to coax even the most reluctant groups to talk, laugh, think, and work together. Page after page of fun, easy-to-plan tear-out exercises help you: break the ice and get participants acquainted; shake up outworn habits and perceptions; challenge with thought-provoking brainteasers; test learning and retention; develop communication and listening skills; bring out and involve participant-leaders; win back lethargic, distracted, low-energy groups; encourage creative problem-solving; boost or reinforce a group's self-image; forge cohesive work teams and value object; facilitate transfer of training to the job.

More Games Trainers Play

Computers & Technology

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