Carolyn Nilson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Finally--the next generation of team training games is here! Now that teams have been around for a few years, what have top training professionals learned about facilitating teams? What causes teams to fail, and how do you train to make sure that your teams don't? How can you keep your training exercises fresh, entertaining, and engaging when working with advanced teams who think they've ``seen it all''? You'll find out in this long-awaited sequel to the bestselling manual, Team Games for Trainers. Based on a sophisticated new understanding of team dynamics gleaned from nearly a decade of experience with all sorts of workplace teams, this cutting-edge collection of training games draws on all the important changes and advances in the work teams movement since the publication of the first book. Here are 100 stimulating and easy-to-facilitate games, activities, and exercises you can use to: align individual and team goals; make diversity work; turn learning into doing; unleash team creativity and spark innovation; build teams that cope well with change; and much more!

More Team Games for Trainers

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Daniel R. Meier

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Undertaking, Supporting, and Learning from Early Childhood Teacher Research(ers)

Inspiring and supporting innovative thinking Young children have great capacity for creativity that thrives when it is nurtured. Early childhood teachers have the opportunity to inspire children's innovative thinking and doing by - Including creative opportunities across all domains of learning - Designing a beautiful space that encourages children's experimentation and play - Extending children's learning and challenging their thinking - Documenting children's thought processes and displaying their work - Involving families and the community in children's creative endeavors - Reflecting on your beliefs and practices about creativity and nurturing your own creativity Learn how to support children as they problem-solve, explore and share new ideas, and collaborate with others, and watch their confidence and capableness grow.

Our Inquiry, Our Practice

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Bernard Ross

Clare Segal

Creative Strategies for Extraordinary Results

This groundbreaking book will help nonprofit managers think in newand creative ways about how they define and meet the challengesthey face--and how to rise above standard practices to lift theirorganizations to greater performance levels. Using examples of bestpractices from innovative organizations in both the corporate andnonprofit worlds, Breakthrough Thinking for NonprofitOrganizations offers a mix of "how-to" advice and case studiesthat will guide readers on a new road to creativity. This book willfundamentally change the way nonprofit professionals think abouthow they do their work--and usher in a new era fornonprofits. 2003 Terry McAdam Book Award Winner http://www.allianceonline.org/publications/mcadam_past_winners_1.page

Breakthrough Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations

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Emily R. Foster

Karyn Hartinger

Katherine A. Smith

Physical Education

85 games and activities for children  

Features 85 games and activities to help teachers maximise fitness in their students and find activities that they'll enjoy.

Fitness Fun

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Roger Fisher

Daniel Shapiro

Using Emotions As You Negotiate

"Written in the same remarkable vein as Getting to Yes, this book is a masterpiece." --Dr. Steven R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

* Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for Excellence in Conflict Resolution from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution *

In Getting to Yes, renowned educator and negotiator Roger Fisher presented a universally applicable method for effectively negotiating personal and professional disputes. Building on his work as director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher now teams with Harvard psychologist Daniel Shapiro, an expert on the emotional dimension of negotiation and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. In Beyond Reason, Fisher and Shapiro show readers how to use emotions to turn a disagreement-big or small, professional or personal-into an opportunity for mutual gain.

Beyond Reason

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Max Lucado

A Guided Journal to Genuine Joy





Did you know that you can increase the number of smiles on our planet Did you know that you have the power to help people sleep better, laugh more, hum instead of grumble, and walk instead of stumble The unexpected path to joy is what Happy Today: A Guided Journal to Genuine Joy by New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado is all about.

In this 52-week guided journal, each week includes:

 * An excerpt of Max's writing, primarily from How Happiness Happens
 * A scripture that aligns with the week's focus
 * A guided prompt alongside journaling space
 * Photos and beautiful illustrations

This beautiful guided journal can be worked through independently or used when reading Max Lucado's How Happiness Happens. The journal will help you discover:

 * What happiness is...
 * How to find that deep, lasting, heart-brimming-over kind of happy
 * How to find peace with the things you cannot control

Max equips you with an overarching way of living and practical day-to-day actions that produce a life of happiness and moments of true joy.

Happy Today

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Kindra Hall

The Power of Storytelling to Captivate, Influence, and Transform

The moment you take control of your stories, you take control of your business and your life.

Stories That Stick

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Cy Wakeman

Things Don't Have to Be Perfect for You to Be Content

A simple shift in thinking can change everything you believe about your own happiness. By the time we become adults, most of us have joined the religion of suffering, which preaches that unless circumstances are controlled, life will be a mess. We compare ourselves to others and speculate about an impossible-to-know future, holding out hope for an improved life through getting ahead, fulfilling passion, or finding true love. But the idea that happiness comes from putting effort toward altering one’s circumstances is harmful and backward. What if we instead learned to understand that circumstances can rarely be controlled, and that life is, and always will be, messy? From that starting point, we could learn to use our minds to create happiness despite life’s ever-changing circumstances and events. Life’s Messy, Live Happy by Cy Wakeman is about dramatically changing the level of happiness you feel in your daily life, by learning to disconnect happiness from external forces, stop worrying about the future, and realize that most of your negative feelings are about things that never even happened. Wakeman is a credible, relatable teacher—a business owner, mother, and community member who has lived her philosophy and achieved profound happiness and success in a crazy, messy life. Filled with concrete daily practices and true stories that are hilarious, painful, and poignant, this book will change everything: your perspective, your focus, and your energy level for everyday life.

Life's Messy, Live Happy

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Marie Kondo

Just cup stain on the cover. Rest is perfect

The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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Connecting with What Really Matters

Unlacing the Heart is a book of true-life stories that capture moments of deep personal connection between people living very different lives. Of Alfredo, a homeless man who invited Henry Freeman into his life; of Jane, a Yale student who needed help coming out from under the burden of a high society family; of Sister Margaret, a Franciscan nun who joyfully shared her gift for uncovering the good in people we often fear and hate; of Mary, a person trapped in the body of a bag lady with only one true friend; and of an elderly woman also named Margaret who found in a meal of Omaha steak and asparagus a safe space to share her joys, her fears and the news of her pending death. Henry Freeman shares with us a rare gift that extends far beyond his professional expertise as a fundraising consultant. It is a gift he, a Quaker, received from his mentor and friend Henri Nouwen, an author and Catholic theologian whose writings on spirituality and the human condition touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Indeed, the author's most powerful stories-the ones that lead readers on an inner journey and exploration of their own vulnerable spaces-reflect the presence of Nouwen in the author's life and the words he shares in this book's pages. In his Foreword to Unlacing the Heart noted author John Stewart reminds us that for thousands of years Jewish scholars have lifted up the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes as wisdom literature because they contain important reflections on the human condition and clarify how we as human beings are to live in the world. He then goes on to embrace Unlacing the Heart as a modern-day example of wisdom literature. What more compelling introduction could be offered to a first-time author's work?

Unlacing the Heart

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Fundraising, Philanthropy, and a Spiritual Call to Service

Fundraising is ministry--a transformative ministry that challenges all people to realize their own gifts and how they can be used for the benefit of the church. In Imagining Abundance, Kerry Robinson focuses on reasons why each of us are called to be stewards. We act because we're excited about what it is that we do for the church and where we're called by God to be, we want others to be just as excited about what that is, and we want people to be partners with us in that ministry.
In Imagining Abundance, Kerry Robinson offers an inspirational and practical guide to effective fundraising that is ideal for anyone invested in a faith community. Bishops, provincials, pastors, ministers, executive and development directors and trustees of faith-based organizations will benefit from this healthy approach to the activity of fundraising that situates successful development in the context of ministry and mission.

Imagining Abundance

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