Business : Training

With increasing demands on our time and resources, it’s impossible to achieve all we set out to do without the help and assistance of others. This Effective Delegation Rapid Skill Builder booklet offers some particular advice on how to make delegation part of your normal work schedule, and identify both the need for assistance and how you can entrust other people with delegated tasks. more...

Price: $9.50

The first book of activities dedicated to developing Emotional Intelligence in the workplace! more...

Price: $34.95

This special issue of the Journal of European Industrial Training is based around the Programme for University-Industry Interface (PUII) located at the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland. The contributors are members of the project team and their associates and the editors are Douglas Weir, Chair of the project Academic Advisory Board and John O’Donoghue of the UL, member of the project Executive Board. PUII stems from an initiative of the Irish Government in 2001 to support company upskilling, postgraduate conversion courses and maintenance of the national IT infrastructure. It is funded for the period 2003-2006 through the Higher Education Authority (HEA) under the Information Technology Investment Fund 2001-2006 (Measure 1.2) from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Although PUII is based at the UL, it depends for its success on a genuine partnership between the university and industry. Although the project is national in character and concerned with one country’s efforts to plan a successful future based on a knowledge economy, the editors believe that such initiatives will find a strong resonance across international boundaries. A project that focuses on reconciling emerging issues between the individual, education and employability in a knowledge-based economy must intersect concerns and interests shared by researchers and practitioners in a number of fields including human resource development (HRD). Background to the project In the 1990s the Government of Ireland set up an expert group to advise on Ireland’s skill needs. In its third report (Forfas, 2001) the group drew attention to the continuing skill shortages and labour shortages in the Irish economy, notwithstanding a trend for rising labour force participation rates and net immigration inflows. That report accordingly recommended a number of further measures to augment labour supply, not only in the area of participation rates, but also including a systematic programme of training a more...

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ENTPs take their energy from the outer world of actions and spoken words. They prefer dealing with patterns and possibilities, and making decisions on a logical basis. Psychological Type Indicator (PTI) booklets provide an easy-to-understand reference for this type (based on Carl Jung’s psychological type theory). Each booklet also includes a one page overview on each of the four relevant preferences. These pages make suggestions regarding time management, conflict, careers and general personality hints. more...

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ESFJs take their energy from the outer world of actions and spoken words. They prefer dealing with facts, and making decisions on the basis of personal values. They like dealing with people, and organize life on a personal basis. Psychological Type Indicator (PTI) booklets provide an easy-to-understand reference for this type (based on Carl Jung’s psychological type theory). Each booklet also includes a one page overview on each of the four relevant preferences. These pages make suggestions regarding time management, conflict, careers and general personality hints. more...

Price: $4.95