The textbooks in The Workplace Skills Series teach three skills highly valued by all employers:
Interpersonal Communications
Teambuilding
Problem Solving
The authors are Dan Farley, a Silicon Valley Human Resource Training Manager, and Cindy Donaldson, a Northern California teacher. Three features make the material especially powerful and versatile:
Practical skills
Down-to-earth language
Real world situations and exercises
Features and Benefits of The Workplace Skills Series
Practical, powerful curriculum increases student motivation and enrollment.
Readable, concise explanatory text promotes skill development.
Real-world situations increase student attendance and participation.
Extensive exercises ensure skill attainment and retention.
Modular chapters permit flexibility for different scheduling needs.
Unique graphics and innovative delivery methods appeal to ESL and limited literacy students.
Over 150 educational organizations use The Workplace Skills Series. Because the curriculum is so versatile, it is used by a wide variety of schools and training organizations:
Interpersonal skills are crucial to obtaining and retaining employment. This book provides powerful and practical skills for communicating with others. Its extensive exercises provide ample practice for mastery.
Topics include:
Understanding the four basic personality styles
Maintaining effectiveness and influence with different styles
This edition is for high schools or any training organization that teaches both high schools and adult students. The concepts are similar to the college edition, but the exercises are divided evenly between teenage-oriented and workplace-oriented situations.
High school students can use both the teenage and workplace-oriented exercises, and adults can use the workplace-oriented situations.
Topics include:
Understanding the four basic personality styles
Maintaining effectiveness and influence with different styles
Listening actively
Providing positive and negative feedback
Dealing with difficult people
Understanding workplace assignments
Managing conflict
160 pages, softbound
Price: $14.95
(Minimum order 20 books)
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220 pages, softbound
Price: $15.95
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Employers use teams for almost every work task, so employees who understand how to solve problems in teams are highly valued. This book teaches powerful and practical team problem solving skills.
This book is designed for students at any level. All team issues and problem situations are workplace-oriented and age-independent.
