How to Design and Deliver Training for the New and Emerging Generations or Humbuggery and Manipulation

How to Design and Deliver Training for the New and Emerging Generations

Author: Susan El Shamy

This much-needed resource helps trainers cut through the jungles of their own generational learning habits and clear a path to the emerging generations of learners. How to Design and Deliver Training for the New and Emerging Generation gives “old-school” trainers the tools they need to change their training style¾from linear to random access, trainer-centered to learner-centered, text-oriented to graphics-oriented, and so forth¾and accomplish this transition with ease. Author Susan El-Shamy, an international training expert, shows you how to create training sessions that will pick up the pace, increase interaction, link to the learner, offer options, and make learning fun. How to Design and Deliver Training for the New and Emerging Generations is an innovative resource that

· Translates generational differences into strategies, techniques, and tips for designing and delivering training

· Describes five key needs of learners from the emerging generations

· Shows how to design and deliver training that meets the needs of younger learners

· Presents hundreds of engaging tips, tricks, and simple techniques

· Contains quotes and comments from the “Nintendo” generation of learners

· Presents user-friendly call-outs, checklists, and quick tips

· Offers twenty invovative games on a variety of topics designed to engage learners of all ages

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Humbuggery and Manipulation: The Art of Leadership

Author: F G Bailey

Must all leaders have dirty hands? Must they all defy the moral and intellectual conventions of their own societies? Building on his earlier books, F. G. Bailey tackles these questions as he takes a hard look at political leadership and concludes that it is a difficult art which inevitably involves chicanery. "My intentions are modest," he writes: "to demonstrate that there is a dark side to leadership; to show that it is found everywhere and at all times; to encourage people to open the closet, whenever they get a chance, and find out what is really hidden in there; and, finally, perhaps even to urge compassion for those intrepid and (sad to say) indispensable people who allow their souls to be corrupted by the exercise of power." To illuminate the moral and social limits of leadership around the world, Bailey draws on examples from his own research in Orissa, Europe, and elsewhere, from his work on bureaucracies, and from political and military biographies, novels, and historical accounts. He carries his controversial argument into two domains: that of the leader and his mass following and that of the leader in his entourage. Dealing with the masses, he asserts, calls for both simplification of issues and falsification of capacities and attainments; the leader's world is a world of image-making and humbug. He explains how these techniques work and why they find an accepting (if not always gullible) audience. He demonstrates how manipulation and intimidation can control an entourage, and he shows how such reputedly decent leaders as Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, and even Gandhi used these strategems just as readily as did other, less reputable leaders. Recent American political scandals only serve to underline the timeliness of Bailey's subject and to support his theory of the persistence of "humbuggery." With its highly distinctive point of view, this book is sure to interest -- and may well outrage -- anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists, an

Publishers Weekly

For the election year comes this study of leadership and its allegedly contemptible methodshypocrisy, lying and manipulationfrom an anthropologist at the University of California-San Diego who believes politicians must violate the ethics of their cultures to do their jobs. Bailey ( The Tactical Uses of Passion , etc.) examines questions at the base of social behaviore.g. what types of followers are there?; why do we routinely let our leaders lie to us? And provocative analysis of current and past political systems, including Communist China, Nazi Germany, colonial India and primitive societies, yields original theories about the true nature of leadership and what function it serves society. Amusing digressions and anecdotes help alleviate the comprehensive study's dizzyingly cerebral monotone. Commendably, Bailey credits his colleagues for ideas that have contributed to his ownespecially those of Gilbert Murray ( Five Stages of Greek Religion ), which are often quoted. While casual readers will be deterred by the dense prose, and the book's main thrust is scholarly, there is here the vision of an insightful and erudite mind. (September)

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
1	Understanding Leadership	1
	The Question of Virtue	1
	Styles of Domination and of Leadership	7
2	The Disposition to Follow	11
	Good and Bad Followers	11
	Loss of Nerve	13
	The Regimented Disposition	20
	The Mature Disposition	25
	Anarchic Dispositions	29
	The Plasticity of Dispositions	33
3	Values, Beliefs, and Leadership	36
	Is Culture King?	37
	The Power of Office and Personal Power	46
	Causes	54
4	Formal Organizations and Institutions	60
	Organizations and Institutions	61
	Formal Organizations	63
	Informal Organization	66
	Incentives and Commitment	72
	Types of Incentive	74
	Levels of Directive Activity	78
5	The Creation of Trust	82
	The Familial Style	83
	The Numinous Style	88
	Numen and Its Contexts	91
6	Disruptive Leadership	100
	Numenification	101
	The Disruptive Style	103
	The Scope of Numenification	116
7	The Creation of Uncertainty	121
	The Need for an Entourage	121
	Moral and Instrumental Techniques of Control	123
	Uncertainty and Discord	125
	The Entourage as a Threat	130
	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	137
8	Political Science and Political Magic	147
	Enchantment	148
	The Disillusioned	154
9	"Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom"	160
	Heroes or Puppets?	160
	Make-Believe or Hard Reality?	162
	Metacultural Heroism	165
	Humbuggery	168
	References	176
	Index	183