Photo Jolts!: Image-based Activities that Increase Clarity, Creativity, and Conversation - Softcover

Hughes, Glenn; Thiagarajan, Sivasailam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989465519 ISBN 13: 9780989465519

Publisher: SAH, 2013

Synopsis

Looking to increase clarity, creativity, and conversation? Photo Jolts! shows you how to leverage the power of photographs to improve yourself, your team, or your organization. Master trainer Thiagi and SMART as Hell.com founder Glenn Hughes share 51 activities (with over 300 variations) that are tested and proven to help participants think, talk, and take action. Written for trainers, teachers, coaches, managers, HR professionals designers and artists, Photo Jolts! provides step-by-step recipes for effective activities in the areas of problem-solving, team building, communication, emotional intelligence, design, creativity, sales/marketing, and global culture. Each of the 51 ready-to-play Photo Jolts! activities includes: - A short overview - Recommended topics for the activity. - Recommended number of participants and timing. - Advice for running each activity in a virtual setting. - A step-by-step script for the activity. - Recommended variations. - A sample of the activity. Photo Jolts! also includes: - A template for creating your own activities. - Advice for running each activity in a virtual setting. - A resource guide for buying or choosing your photographs. - Links to videos and downloadable worksheets. If you want to improve your thinking while having fun, get Photo Jolts!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Glenn Hughes and Thiagi Thiagarajan are two of the most creative practitioners in the learning field, and when they collaborate, magic happens. That magic is evident throughout their new book, Photo Jolts!  Now you have access to the same 'recipe book' they've been using so successfully to increase individual or team performance. With their energizing, insight-producing, and highly engaging photo activities you'll enable your teams to connect, click, and create. In The Leadership Challenge, we stress the importance of enlisting others in an image-based shared vision. With Photo Jolts!, we finally have a collection of activities that help us all use photographs to see that vision in new and uplifting ways."
- Jim Kouzes 
Co-author of The Leadership Challenge 
The Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
----------------"Thiagi - the Grand Master of Interactive Learning Strategies - meets  Glenn Hughes - the Grand Master of Goal-driven Instructional Design. The result, Photo Jolts!, is a work that belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who facilitates groups. You'll be glad you bought this book after the first use.  After the 100th, you won't remember how you got along without it."- Edward MuzioCEO, Group HarmonicsAuthor, Make Work GreatCo-author, Four Secret to Liking Your Work---------------- "Over years of working with thousands of people in workshops, facilitations and coaching interactions, I've used many helpful instruments. Photo Jolts! is now at the top of my list. If serving your clients is truly your focus, you'll want to give them a jolt... a Photo Jolt!" - Robert ThompsonExecutive CoachAuthor, The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable

About the Author:

Glenn Hughes is an award-winning author, facilitator, photographer, and learning leader. Glenn is the Senior Director of Learning & Development at Silicon Valley-based KLA-Tencor Corporation, a leading provider of process control and yield management solutions. KLA-Tencor's learning organization was recognized in 2008 as a charter member of TRAINING Magazine's "Training Top 10 Hall of Fame" after placing in the world's Top 10 Training Organizations for 5 consecutive years. Glenn is also the founder of SMART as Hell, a company that helps individuals and organizations 'change their world one goal at a time'. SMART as Hell researches and shares tools and best practices in goal writing and achievement - including the groundbreaking "SMARTometer", a tool for measuring the effectiveness of goals. While living in Asia for more than 10 years, Glenn worked with many of the largest electronics companies in the world while managing multi-million dollar operations in China, Singapore, and Japan. Glenn holds a Master's Degree in Adult Education and Training and a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. His instruction design credits include:

• Duarte Design's "slide:ology" workshop
• Group Harmonics' "Make Work Great" workshop
• Power Speaking's "Speaking Up" workshop and web-based training
• Robert Thompson's "The Offsite: A Leadership Simulation"
• The Thiagi Group's "Practical Advice Cards" series

Glenn is the recipient of five Facilitation Impact Awards from the International Association of Facilitators, recognizing the world-class results that he and his clients have achieved. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as the American Society for Training and Development's Conference (ASTD), the International Society for Performance Improvement's Conference (ISPI), Lakewood's TRAINING Conferences, the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), the National Association of Simulation and Gaming (NASAGA), and Fort Hill's Learning Transfer Conference.  

About this edition

• Publisher: SAH
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0989465519
• ISBN 13: 9780989465519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380