Brain Jogging.
Your brain and memory are like your body; they respond to exercise. Our newest book is the book you didn't know you were looking for! It shows you quick, easy and practial ways to stimulate your "gray matter" to help you remain sharp and alert well into the future. By Selma Myers, Intercultural Development and Mera Kelley, Adventurous Aging. Order

Trainer's Diversity Source Book. A comprehensive guide to diversity training filled with activities that foster inclusive envronments, allowing trainers to hone their diversity facilitation skills. This book brings new concepts and usefulness to the proven tools of activities and icebreakers. The book includes an activity matrix, 50 activities with handouts and diversity quotations. A CD-ROM is also included, which allows rapid and easy reproduction and customization of the book's materials, including ready-to-use templates. Order

Conflict Resolution Across Cultures: From Talking it Out to Third Party Mediation. This 91 page paperback book offers an approach to resolving conflicts that involve a cross-cultural component, whether in a one-on-one situation or a more formal third party mediation. It contains specific scenarios about cross cultural conflicts and explores various approaches to their resolution. Order

Global Competence: 50 Training Activities for Succeeding in International Business. This guide is a compilation of training activities contributed by some of the foremost names in intercultural human resources development, classified into six parts that include icebreakers, culture-general activities (consisting of cultural dynamics, communication, and time), culture-specific activities, language and interpretation, leadership and team development, and expatriation and acculturation. Order

Cross Cultural Awareness and Activities for Children. This 38 page teacher's guide offers activities designed to develop greater awareness, sensitivity and positive appreciation of cultural, religious and other differences. Each activity is self-contained and establishes a non-threatening environment in which students can explore cross cultural issues. Order

Diversity Icebreakers: A Trainer's Guide. This guide is designed for all trainers, especially diversity trainers, that needsimple, effective and ready to use Icebreaker activities. This guide can be used to introduce the diversity topic, warm up a group or lead into more in depth discussions. 60 pages of activities that address informal cultural introductions, effective cross cultural communication, personal awareness and perception, values and assumptions. 40 interactive activities, most under 20 minutes. Out of print

Managing Cultural Diversity: A Trainer's Guide. This guide provides trainers and managers with skills and exercises to use in dealing with diversity in the workplace. The guide offers practical approaches to increase awareness, identify cultural issues. 62 pages of 13proven exercises, sample agendas, 19 charts, sample lecturettes, handouts, and hardcopy for transparencies. by Selma Myers, Intercultural Development and Jonamay Lambert, Lambert Associates. Out of print

Beyond Awareness: Skills for Managing a Culturally Diverse Workforce: A Trainer's Guide. This guide provides additional skills beyond basic intercultural awareness training. It focuses on the next step, skills for managing a culturally diverse workforce. The guide offers a variety of exercises that will help participants understand the impact of change, learn skills for dispute resolution, promote multicultural team building. 80 pages consist of 12 proven exercises, sample agendas, 32 charts, sample lecturettes, handouts, and hardcopy for transparencies. Out of print

Culture & Career Transitions: A Trainer's Guide. This guide was developed to assist trainers and counselors who provide career development services for a diverse workforce. 50 pages of exercises that help participants understand the influence of culture on career choices, learn more about themselves, their own culture and organizational culture, recognize obstacles they face and begin to develop strategies to overcome them.10 proven exercises, sample agendas, 20 charts, sample lecturettes, handouts, and hardcopy for transparencies. Out of print

More Diversity Icebreakers: A Trainer's Guide. This 77 page guide is a logical extension of our original highly successful Diversity Icebreakers publication. These activities are an excellent way to create awareness of multicultural and diversity issues in a wide variety of situations. This guide is designed for use by both diversity and other trainers, and contains 35 new user-friendly stand-alone warm-up activities including addressing assumptions, stereotypes and beliefs; cross-cultural energizers and team building; impact of expectations, all with diversity components. Out of print

Gender at Work: Improving Relationships: A Trainer's Guide. This guide provides exercises that increase awareness about gender issues in the workplace. It will help participants understand how personal influences impact perceptions about the opposite sex, become more comfortable and reduce anxieties among men and women, reduce stereotypes that both men and women often have about each other. 56 pages long with 11 proven exercises, sample agendas, 20 charts, sample lecturettes, handouts, and hardcopy for transparencies. Out of print

Customer Relations and the Diversity Challenge: A Trainer's Guide. This 60 page guide was developed to assist trainers, managers, and supervisors who are responsible for meeting the challenges of a diverse customer base having different beliefs, customs and basic values. This guide consists of activities which can be used in workshops or seminars, and will help participants recognize the importance of understanding diverse customers. 12 exercises, samples agendas and 23 charts, sample lecturettes, handouts and hard copy for tranparencies. Out of print