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Dynamic Induction Susan El-Shamy

Dynamic Induction By Susan El-Shamy

Dynamic Induction by Susan El-Shamy

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This is a practical guide to upgrading your employee induction process. It is designed to make it easy for you to take action and repair, revitalize, or even rebuild your entire new-hire orientation and assimilation procedure.

Dynamic Induction Summary

Dynamic Induction: Games, Activities and Ideas to Revitalize your Employee Induction Process by Susan El-Shamy

Dynamic Induction: Games, Activities and Ideas to Revitalise Your Employee Induction Process is a practical guide to upgrading your induction process and actively facilitating the new employee's becoming a positive, productive member of the organization as quickly as possible. This informative, straightforward book has been designed to make it simple for you to take action and repair, revitalize or even rebuild your entire new-employee orientation and assimilation procedure into a dynamic and engaging process that will improve communication, co-operation and group cohesiveness. Using a series of assessments, quizzes, charts and checklists, this instructive handbook presents more than 200 ideas and suggestions for enhancing and energizing your complete induction process, starting from the moment a new employee accepts the job. Dynamic Induction also provides you with 50 games and structured activities that can be used to impart work-related information to staff embarking on a new job. These games and activities can be used in all of the instruction-related aspects of your induction process, including planned actions taken to welcome and help the new person as well as specific learning events designed to accelerate the integration of the new employee into the workforce.

Dynamic Induction Reviews

'Dynamic Induction not only makes a strong case for the importance of a comprehensive induction program, it also provides a treasure trove of ideas on how to do it effectively. The author's grasp of sound learning theory translates into a book full of checklists, exercises and games to promote skill building and ensure effective induction. It transforms training into learning and, best of all, shows that learning can be fun. This practical, creative book belongs on every trainer's bookshelf - not just as a guide for induction programs, but as a valuable collection of interactive learning exercises.' Susan Gastony, Indiana University, USA 'This book is a very useful and instructive book ... (it) is dynamic, it is an accumulation of the experience, and learning, about induction the Susan El-Shamy has built up during her 20 years as a training professional. It is an invaluable addition to any trainer's bookshelf. It will enable trainers to develop their own dynamic induction processes, by choosing the appropriate games and activities to meet the needs of their organisations and new recruits.' Institute of Training and Occupational Learning, Nov. 2003 ' I can recommend this book to anyone considering planning induction programmes, experienced trainers who are seeking new approaches or different activities within their active approaches, and managers without trainer back-up who will find the activities in many cases are almost stand-alone and can be used directly. Ratings: Innovation **** Content **** Clarity ***** Overall recommendation **** Value for money ****' Training Journal, Nov. 2003 'Overall, the book is immensely informative and instructive and can be described as a compendium on induction containing a straightforward how-to agenda. ... The prescriptions in the book, if followed, will help in the direction of improving communication and cohesiveness. It impressed me immensely, as it contains a very rich source of ideas on induction. I read i

About Susan El-Shamy

Dr Susan El-Shamy is Senior Partner at Advancement Strategies, Inc., a training and development resources company based in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. In her 20 years as a training professional, Susan has worked with a variety of clients including Berlitz, Corning, Mattel, Motorola, Thomson Consumer Electronics and various government agencies. She is a regular guest lecturer at the Indiana University School of Business and a frequent speaker at national training conferences. Susan has a BA in Radio and Television, an MA in English, and a Doctor of Education degree in Counselling and Guidance.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; About this book. Part I: The Induction Process: Introduction to the induction process; The new employee's four firsts; Induction training programmes; Induction companion programmes; Induction instruction materials. Part II: Dynamic Induction Games and Activities: Games for Inclusion: Games and Activities to Get Acquainted: Start the music; Hello, my name is ...; Induction round robin; Let me give you my card; Get acquainted 4 x 4. Warm-ups and Ice Breakers: Three degrees of connection; Teacups and coffee mugs; Finding the words; The first job I ever had; How I found this job. Reassurance and Initiation Games: I'm happy to be here, but ...; The new person in a group is like ...; Reasons I'm happy to be here; Caption competition; A picture says it all. Games for Sharing Information: General Information Games: Pay attention; A maze of information; Divide and conquer. Games on Getting to Know the Work Environment: A walking tour; Treasure hunt; The best of everything; Where's where? Compliance, Safety and Security Games: It's the law; In case of emergency; A sense of security; Safety tips; Where's the first-aid kit? Human Resources Information Games: Money matters; What's a person to do?; Overt and covert; What to do; All for you; Employee development opportunities. Understanding the Organization: Once upon a time; Where in the world is ...?; The big picture frame; What we are famous for; Who's who?; The teamwork puzzle; Quality and customer service game; TLAs are everywhere!; Company quiz bowl; The company board game. You and Your Job: Adjusting to the New Position: Where do you fit in?; What you do and how you do it; Measuring up; The good, the bad and the ugly; Now, then and some day; Putting it all together; Celebration station; Index.

Additional information

GOR007561251
9780566085444
0566085445
Dynamic Induction: Games, Activities and Ideas to Revitalize your Employee Induction Process by Susan El-Shamy
Susan El-Shamy
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20030828
204
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