Games to Jumpstart workplace creativity. Dr. Robert Epstein's Creativity Games for Trainers arms you with 30 innovative, entertaining games guaranteed to enhance creativity in any organizational setting. Use them to develop creativity workshops or to breathe life into any training sessions. Each ready-to-use activity comes complete with lists of required and optional materials, time recommendations, reproducible handouts, follow-up discussion questions, and other essential information. You'll also find simple instructions for customizing exercises to different settings. . .data collection forms to help measure and track success. . .special ``challenge exercises'' that help participants develop their own games. . .and unique ``application exercises'' to assist users in promoting creativity on their own.

Instructional leaders need a wide range of skills and talents to be effective in today's schools, and this text highlights techniques, skills, and strategies for effective performance.

Brainstorming and Beyond describes the techniques for generating ideas verbally, in writing, or through sketches. The first chapter focuses on brainstorming, the foundation method for ideation, which is a complex social process building off of social psychology principles, motivational constructs, and corporate culture. Brainstorming is commonly portrayed as an easy way to generate ideas, but in reality, it is a complex social process that is often flawed in ways that are not self-evident. Chapter 2 discusses Brainwriting, which is a variation on brainstorming in which each person writes ideas down on paper and then passes the paper to a new person who reads the first set of ideas and adds new ones. Since there is no group shouting out of ideas, strong facilitation skills are not required, and more often than not, Brainwriting results greatly exceed those of group brainstorming in a shorter time because ideas are generated in a parallel, rather than serial, fashion. Brainwriting is useful when time is limited, groups are hostile, or you are dealing with a culture where shouting out wild or divergent ideas might be difficult. Finally, in Chapter 3, readers learn about Braindrawing, a method of visual brainstorming that helps practitioners generate ideas for icons, other graphics, user interface layouts, or Web page designs. Each of these methods provides readers with ways to generate, present, and evaluate ideas so they can begin building a strong foundation for product success. - Learn the proper techniques for generating ideas with limited time, hostile audiences, and limited facilitation support - Explores efficient processes for analyzing the value of ideas - Examines ways to generate visual as well as textual ideas

"In the field of social work, qualitative research is starting to gain more prominence as are mixed methods and various issues regarding race, ethnicity and gender. These changes in the field are reflected and updated in "The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods, Second Edition". This text contains meta analysis, designs to evaluate treatment and provides the support to help students harness the power of the Internet. This handbook brings together leading scholars in research methods in social work." --Book Jacket.

Would you like to greatly improve your data analysis capabilities by learning the most critical non-technical skills? Do you want to be more astute and well-rounded when applying your skills as a data analyst and achieve better results? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, keep reading ….. There is an immense focus being placed on data analysis by businesses these days. It is indispensable and helps boil down decision-making to a science. This in turn lets organizations streamline their processes, increase their efficiency, and reduce their operating costs. For this reason, data analysts are in high demand. While technical skills are needed for the job, a salient focus is placed on what soft skills do the incumbent data analysts possess. A lot of data analysts do not adequately acquire these soft skills and therefore fail to realize their full potential. The most impactful work that a highly successful data analyst does comprises non-technical skills. Some crucial skills among these include being able to construct the problem, understand the business context, ask the right questions, find creative solutions, creating visualizations, and presenting the findings. This indispensable book will guide you through these absolutely necessary soft skills that you need in order to excel at your work as a valuable data analyst. Here’s a preview of this fantastic book, and what else you’ll learn: ● The critical contribution of non-technical skills in data analysis ● Using creativity to enable solving more complex problems quickly ● Understanding the business to address the specific needs of enterprises ● Thinking strategically to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of your work ● Knowing how the human mind works to discover the abilities and limitations of various analytical models ● Using alternative techniques compared to statistical analysis such as qualitative data analysis, analytics, heuristics, etc., to gain a deeper perspective ● Acquiring negotiating skills to better deal with external and internal stakeholders ● Learning to better communicate your data analysis insights ● Being a better writer to be able to better express yourself ….. And much more! As a key bonus, included in this book are chapters that extensively elaborate on designing your findings by means of visualizations and public speaking in order to convincingly present your finding to a group of influential people and executives. The author understands your peculiar concerns and has therefore written this book in a clear and concise manner. The work is also thorough, relevant, and up-to-date. You are not required to be an experienced analyst to read this book. However, you do need to have a zeal for the subject and the passion for improving the outcome of your work. So, if you want to dramatically improve as a data analyst and aspire to reach the zenith of your field, click the “Add to Cart” button, and let’s get started!

"The Handbook takes a pracademic approach to creative problem solving in negotiation and mediation. 'Pracademics' used to describe the art and science of translating the theory of creative problem solving into practice, and conversely, converting the practice of creative problem solving into theory. Volume Two of the Handbook is focused on specific creative problem solving techniques and tools that negotiation/mediation practitioners across the country have found to be effective in resolving disputes or making deals. A highly useful feature of Volume Two is its multiple indexing to facilitate identifying techniques or tools appropriate for the problem solving task."--Publisher.

Facilitating Genius: Illuminating Brilliance in Your Organization is a practical guide for leaders, executives, facilitators, and coaches on the art and science of creative problem-solving. This book is the product of 10+ years of research and the lessons learned from providing professional services to clients from private, public, and non-profit organizations. In Facilitating Genius, the author draws on his experience as a certified facilitator and leadership coach. He briefly introduces the theory of multiple intelligences, shares 25 short vignettes of genius achievement, and offers four case studies where the reader can then test their problem-solving skills as they "consult" with the geniuses revealed in this book. Readers are encouraged to identify the type of "smarts" they possess and can easily do so by way of the links provided in this book. Each of the eight intelligences are defined and at least three representative geniuses for each type are offered in this text. This book is well illustrated and has quotes and prompts embedded into each of the 25 sample stories of extraordinary achievement. And as an added bonus there are worksheets provided for the reader to use individually or in small groups within his or her organization.