675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People: Strategies, ideas, and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People: Strategies, ideas, and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace

by Laurel Alexander
Released March 2007
Publisher(s): HRD Press
ISBN: 9781599960531

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Book description

We all struggle as professionals to stay on top of our game. Here is a book with hundreds of practical ways to take control of moving your career in the direction you want to go – and of helping your people do the same. 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People reflects the real needs of real people in today's workplace. You'll gain exercises, activities and strategies that will help you develop your ability to build positive work relationships, change an aspect of your interpersonal behavior, come across as powerful in meetings, listen, make decisions, survive a downsizing and much more. The engaging and hands-on resource provides a set of 50 individual learning opportunities and over 600 ideas, techniques and activities for making the most of the learning opportunities. Each module begins with an overview of the subject and moves on to exercises in easy-to-use categories.You can pick up this book and start wherever you like. You'll be amazed at how many opportunities you face each day to learn with and from your co-workers, facilitate the development process in others and travel purposefully through your life.

Table of contents

  1. 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People: Strategies, ideas, and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace
    1. Copyright
    2. Introduction
    3. Chapter 1: Achieving Ambitions with Goal Setting
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    4. Chapter 2: Balancing Life and Work
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    5. Chapter 3: Basics of Transactional Analysis
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    6. Chapter 4: Building Positive Work Relationships
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    7. Chapter 5: Career Planning
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    8. Chapter 6: Changing Interpersonal Behavior
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    9. Chapter 7: Coaching Others
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    10. Chapter 8: Conducting Interviews
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    11. Chapter 9: Counseling in the Workplace
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    12. Chapter 10: Creating a Wellness Program
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    13. Chapter 11: Critical Thinking
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    14. Chapter 12: Delegating
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    15. Chapter 13: Developing Emotional Intelligence
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    16. Chapter 14: Developing Leadership
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    17. Chapter 15: Empowering Others
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    18. Chapter 16: Facilitating Learning
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    19. Chapter 17: Generating Creative Solutions
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    20. Chapter 18: Giving and Receiving Feedback
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    21. Chapter 19: Increasing Self-Esteem
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
    22. Chapter 20: Increasing Your Power at Meetings
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    23. Chapter 21: Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    24. Chapter 22: Listening Skills
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    25. Chapter 23: Making Decisions
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    26. Chapter 24: Managing Change
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    27. Chapter 25: Managing Your Anger
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    28. Chapter 26: Mentoring
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    29. Chapter 27: Motivating Others
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    30. Chapter 28: Networking
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    31. Chapter 29: Performance Management
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    32. Chapter 30: Physical Stress Management
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    33. Chapter 31: Planning Skills
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    34. Chapter 32: Presentation Skills
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    35. Chapter 33: Psychological Stress Management
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    36. Chapter 34: Recognizing and Expressing Your Emotions
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    37. Chapter 35: Resolving Conflict
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    38. Chapter 36: Responding to Negativity in Others
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    39. Chapter 37: Rethinking Your Values
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    40. Chapter 38: Returning to Learning
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    41. Chapter 39: Self-directed Learning in the Workplace
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    42. Chapter 40: Skills and Strengths Analysis
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. TASK CHECKLISTS (1/2)
      7. TASK CHECKLISTS (2/2)
    43. Chapter 41: Speaking Skills
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    44. Chapter 42: Surviving Downsizing
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    45. Chapter 43: Tactics for Negotiation
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    46. Chapter 44: Tapping Your Personal Power
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    47. Chapter 45: Team Building
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    48. Chapter 46: Time Management
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    49. Chapter 47: Using Effective Questioning
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    50. Chapter 48: Valuing Diversity
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
      6. RECOMMENDED HRD PRESS TITLES
    51. Chapter 49: Verbal and Nonverbal Language
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    52. Chapter 50: Working with Gender Differences
      1. INTRODUCTION
      2. INDIVIDUAL TASKS AND REFLECTIONS
      3. WORKING WITH OTHERS
      4. WORKING WITH A MENTOR
      5. DEVELOPING OTHERS
    53. References and Further Reading

Product information

  • Title: 675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People: Strategies, ideas, and activities for self-development and learning in the workplace
  • Author(s): Laurel Alexander
  • Release date: March 2007
  • Publisher(s): HRD Press
  • ISBN: 9781599960531