Accelerating Performance: Powerful Techniques for Developing People

✍ Scribed by Sunny Stout Rostron

• Publisher: Kogan Page Business Books
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In training there are two distinct camps emerging - those who cling doggedly to traditional training approaches and those who have thrown away the rule book and are assembling a personal toolkit of techniques drawn from a wide range of training options including storytelling, drama, music, accelerated learning, NLP techniques etc. This vital new book assesses each of the new techniques available and explains their use and impact. Clearly allowing anyone involved in performance improvement and staff development to develop their own blended learning toolkit- where a variety of techniques provide a flexible array of training solutions - the book offers both practical advice and detailed case studies showing each particular technique in use.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: What's Different about this Book?......Page 10
Revolutionizing Training......Page 12
Building Performance......Page 14
Shoes Off......Page 17
Getting Started......Page 22
Where to go for More......Page 24
The Magic is in the Learning......Page 26
Affirm Postive Beliefs......Page 27
Identifying your Professional Coach......Page 31
Your Career is up to you......Page 33
Your Path the Renewal......Page 37
Where to go for More......Page 45
3: Icebreaking......Page 46
Begin before the Beginning......Page 47
Bonding and Team Building......Page 52
Dealing with Learner Anxiety......Page 54
Cut Through the Clutter......Page 60
Where to go for More......Page 61
4: Think like a Star, Act like a Performer......Page 64
Entertainers or Trainers......Page 65
Just Voice......Page 72
Changing Viewpoints......Page 73
On a Role......Page 76
Circle Exercises and Team Building......Page 81
The Importance of Metaphor......Page 82
Trainers take on Hollywood!......Page 87
Where to go for More......Page 92
5: Brain Fitness: Your Mental Tool Kit......Page 96
Building Mental Muscle......Page 97
Learning and Emotion......Page 109
Intuitive Intelligence......Page 122
Memory and Recall......Page 123
Where to go for More......Page 129
6: Real Magic: Motivation and Innovation......Page 132
The Desire to Achieve......Page 133
Innovative Strategies......Page 145
Steps to Creative Thinking......Page 152
Drawing and Handwriting......Page 156
Where to go for More......Page 161
7: Music: The Beat Goes On......Page 164
Music as Anchor......Page 165
Mozart Makes you Smarter......Page 170
Singing and Learning......Page 178
Transitions......Page 183
Where to go for More......Page 187
8: Doing the Dance: Rapport and Communication or Stress?......Page 190
Doing the Dance......Page 191
Communication and Stress......Page 199
Presentation Excellence......Page 202
Where to go for More......Page 211
9: Facilitation Metaskills and Deep Democracy......Page 212
Facilitation Verus Training......Page 213
Facilitation Metaskills......Page 218
The Process of Deep Democracy......Page 223
Your Best Tools......Page 235
Where to go for More......Page 242
Accelerating Performance......Page 244
Become the Architect of your Future......Page 245
Learning from Shakespeare......Page 246
Train your Brain......Page 247
Innovate to Motivate......Page 248
Refining Rapport Skills......Page 249
Facilitating with Metaskill......Page 250
Where to go from Here......Page 251
Index......Page 252