Drawing on contemporary psychological insights, this book shows how both teaching and learning styles are rooted in the dynamics of personality. By opening the door to a whole range of teaching techniques addressing the personality needs of different students, Effective Teaching, Effective Learning will prove an invaluable aid to classroom teachers, parents, school psychologists, counselors, administrators, and all those concerned with contemporary educational issues. Filled with practical, concrete suggestions, this book: clarifies the strengths and weaknesses of different teaching and learning styles, helps teachers get more satisfaction out of teaching by identifying new ways to reach students with various learning styles, matches the different types of learners with the teaching approaches and materials most likely to work for them, provides specific steps for handling conflict, discipline, and academic and interpersonal issues.

Effective Teaching, Effective Learning: Making the Personality Connection in Your Classroom

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fairhurst, Alice M.

Fairhurst, Lisa L.

Psychology & Counseling

John Murray Business Academic

Hailed by PMA, the Independent Book Publisher's Association, as a "business breakthrough" and "one of the thirty best business books of the year" by Soundview, the first edition of Working Relationships set the standard for managing conflict and developing teamwork while learning to get along with friends and foes at work. Now author Bob Wall is back with the latest research and field-tested knowledge about the critical role emotional intelligence (EQ) plays in achieving workplace and career success.

Working Relationships: Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Your Effectiveness with Others

Business & Money

WALL, Bob

Business Culture

For coaches, corporate trainers, human resources professionals, and career counselors-anyone responsible for facilitating professional growth and development in others-TLC at Work offers a start-to-finish process and a comprehensive fieldbook of hands-on, interactive tools. Drawing on the key concepts of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory and her twenty years of experience working with personality type, award-winning author and consultant Donna Dunning defines and describes-in a measureable way-five core competencies essential for workplace success. She delivers all the practical strategies, assessment tools, and step-by-step advice needed to help employees become self-directed, mindful, skilled communicators, able to learn readily and adapt easily to the challenges of today's workplace.

TLC at Work: Training, Leading, Coaching All Types for Star Performance

Dunning, Donna

Work It Out delivers a dynamic way to simplify the complex--and sometimes chaotic--interactions between people at work. With fresh insights on applying the power of personality type in executive coaching, experts Hirsh and Kise have built a solid foundation for helping individuals tap into their strengths, minimize unnecessary conflict, and learn to work more effectively with others. Dozens of hands-on exercises, intervention descriptions, and case studies put the power to implement these teambuilding and coaching strategies into the hands of any manager, consultant, business leader, or HR professional committed to improving communication, reducing stress, fostering sustainable change, and building strong, effective teams in organizations.

Work It Out: Using Personality Type to Improve Team Performance

Sandra Krebs Hirsh

Jane A.G. Kise

Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work

Gervase R. Bushe one of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers 2016-2020 What happened to that win-win partnership with your boss, colleague, or direct report that suddenly dissolved into mistrust and suspicion? Despite your best intentions, how did hidden agendas, unresolved conflicts, and miscommunication get in the way? With new research, fresh insight, and up-to-date examples of what it takes to collaboratively organize and sustain healthy relationships at work, this newly revised edition of Clear Leadership tackles these issues head-on. Building on the powerful concepts that made the first edition such a success, Gervase Bushe explains why even the most promising partnerships get derailed and what you can do about it. Chosen by Life Changers as one of the 100 books that changed my life.

Bushe, Gervase R.

Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X-Factor in Team eXcellence

This self-study training guide puts the power of participative leadership into the hands of every manager, trainer, consultant, and team member struggling to help teams succeed. Packed with more than eighty new and field-tested tools, Tools for Team Leadership solves the mystery of why some teams-regardless of talent-succeed while others fail and delivers everything you need to master the "X-factor" skills of team leadership.

Tools for Team Leadership: Delivering the X-Factor in Team Excellence

Huszczo, Gregory E.

Management & Leadership

Force-fitting employees to job descriptions leads to unhappy people and substandard performance. For years, HR professionals have struggled with this dilemma. But it doesnâ??t have to be that way. Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes a new model of performance management that matches employee talents to the work that must be done. By focusing on the critical competencies that distinguish star performers, HR professionals can transform the way they recruit, select, train, develop, and compensate top-performing employees.

Competency-Based Human Resource Management: Discover a New System for Unleashing the Productive Power of Exemplary Performers

Rothwell, William J.

Dubois, David D.

Whether you work group stretches from here to Dubai or can easily meet in a conference room down the hall, anger and frustration are easy to come by when others don't do things your way, follow directions, or respond the way you think they should. But when emotions manage workplace relationships, the result is conflict, disengagement, and low morale. Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World delivers a novel prescription for managing effectively in today's workplace: Use the dynamic principles of EQ plus insights from the author's pioneering diversity work to increase your competence in managing emotions and enhance your effectiveness in work, relationships, and life. The book also gives you the know-how to use this approach in coaching and developing others to help them be more successful on the job.

Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World: The Hard Truth About Soft Skills in the Workplace

Cherbosque, Jorge

Gardenswartz,Lee

Rowe,Anita

Distilling the wisdom of the past with an eye toward the future, Great Leadership cuts through the complexity of leading organizations, operations, and people to make leadership development manageable and greatness attainable. Whether you are looking to lay a solid foundation for a lifetime of great leadership or searching for a curriculum to guide your self-development, Antony Bell has mapped out a journey of discovery to help you uncover what drives your leadership style and do what it takes to practice leadership that is both noble and competent.

Great Leadership: What It Is and What It Takes in a Complex World

Bell, Antony

In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective. In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic readings on the topic of intercultural communication, including: "Science and Linguistics," by Benjamin Lee Whorf "The Power of Hidden Differences," by Edward T. Hall "Culture: A Perceptual Approach," by Marshall R. Singer "Communication in a Global Village," by Dean Barlund "Cultural Identity: Reflections on Multiculturalism," by Peter S. Adler

Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, and Practices

Self-Help

Bennett, Milton J.

Relationships

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