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Book Review: PERSUASION IQ - The 10 Skills You Need to Get Exactly What You Want

Effective advertising, marketing, and sales professionals convince consumers to buy.

Winning defense attorneys sway juries to acquit, and winning politicians urge constituents to vote for them.

Trusted doctors counsel patients, and trusted clergy enlighten congregations. Respected teachers, trainers, and mentors advise and motivate students. Good parents guide their children. These and countless more examples show how successful people use persuasion every day.

“Regardless of our actual job title, we all persuade for a living,” notes Kurt W. Mortensen, who makes his living as an authority on the psychology, art, and distinctive intelligence of persuasion.

 In PERSUASION IQ: The 10 Skills You Need to Get Exactly What You Want (AMACOM 2008), Mortensen shares what he has learned about the talents, traits, habits, and mindset of top persuaders—people who stand out as exceptionally successful and prosperous—over nearly 20 years of wide-ranging research.

Book Review: Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers

Just because your team doesn't have the time or the budget to embark on a full-scale training program doesn't mean you have to abandon the idea of team-building exercises altogether.

Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers presents 50 fun, practical exercises to choose from, and you don't need any special facilities, expensive products, or previous training experience to get great results-in minutes! These great activities will help you:

• Build new teams and help teams assimilate new members
• Deal with change
• Recognize individual efforts and team accomplishments
• Find creative ways to work together and solve problems
• Increase and improve communication
• Leverage diversity and individual differences to meet team goals
• Keep competition healthy and productive

Whether you're a rookie manager or a veteran, you'll build great teams with these simple and engaging exercises!

Book Review: Preventing Death By Lecture! by Sharon Bowman

Preventing Death by Lecture! is rich with terrific tips for delivering any kind of speech, presentation, class, or training!

This is an easy-to-use, high-energy book that will give you great tips you can use in your personal and professional life. If you want to be successful at teaching, training, parenting, communicating, public speaking, or presenting information to others, this book will help you do just that.

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Book Review: 101 Games for Trainers - by Bob Pike

"Learning is directly proportional to the amount of fun you have." - Bob Pike's "Law #3 of Adult Learning"

If your participants are going to learn and retain information, injecting fun into your classroom is imperative. 101 Games for Trainers is your source book for making that fun happen.

In it, you'll find dozens of games, exercises, and activities specifically designed to..

• Develop communication skills.
• Promote teamwork.
• Break the ice and grab participants' attention.
• Bring a weary group back to life.
• lead an audience through a spirited, comprehensive review session.
• Address the special concerns of certain topical courses, including orientation training, diversity training, customer service training, sales training, and more.

Training Games that Make Learning Fun

Stamp out boring training sessions and meetings.

Do your employees fall asleep during your training sessions. Need some creative ideas? Here are some places to get them.

One of our subscribers to our newsletter, Employee Morale Tips, wanted some customer service training games for an upcoming training session, so I asked professional speakers and trainers to send in their ideas.

Here are some exciting ideas and sources of information to spice up your training sessions.

Presentation Skills: Amazing PowerPoint Tips

If you train, teach, present, or ever use PowerPoint, YOU MUST WATCH this slide show. It will revolutionize your presentations.

I promise you won't be bored.

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