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Introduction

Hi!

The idea behind this ebook is to give you a quick and easy entry to the wealth of FREE business learning material that‟s available

in the year 2011 on this amazing phenomenon we call the

Internet.

I‟ve selected what I consider to be the best 100 sites on the

Internet today for management and personal development,

based on one simple criterion: the quality and quantity of FREE

material they offer.

The material you‟ll discover ranges from something as simple as

a personality questionnaire, to something as detailed as a 383-

page book -full of ideas and advice.

If you‟re a manager, trainer, or learner, and you‟re interested in

developing your own skills, or those of your team, this book is like falling headfirst into an Aladdin‟s cave.

At a rough count, I reckon there‟s over 1000 hours of training and development here. All waiting for you to explore and use.

And the great thing is, it‟s all FREE!

Of course, my problem has been not on what to include (that was

relatively easy) but what to leave out. So, here‟s how you can help. If you know of a great management, training, or learning

site that I‟ve missed out, just email me and let me know at my address below.

Who knows, together we could produce a 1000-resource book. Now that would be something!

Best wishes and good reading,

Eric Garner ManageTrainLearn




Table of Contents

Introduction

Table of Contents

1. 1000Ventures

2. 12Manage

3. A Better Workplace

4. Accelerated Learning

5. Accel-Team

6. Action Leadership

7. Aimm Consulting

8. All Business

9. Anecdotage

10. Be a Better Manager

11. Basic Learning Systems Inc

12. Better Workplace Now

13. Big Dog and Little Dog's Bowl of Biscuits

14. Body Language Expert

15. Brain Connection

16. Business Balls

17. Business Marketing

18. Business Simplification

19. Changing Minds

20. Citehr

21. Coaching2grow

22. Customer Service

Manager

23. Customer Service Training

24. Discovery Health

Channel

25. DWM Beancounter

26. Easy Training

27. Empowering Messages

28. Entrepreneur

29. Evan Carmichael

30. Everyone Negotiates

31. Executive Coaching

Studio

32. Executive Planet

33. Ezine Articles

34. Fast Company

35. Fenman

36. First Steps Training

37. Games2Train

38. Get More Done

39. Harvard Business School

40. Harvey Mackay




41. Hello, My Name Is Scott

42. Human Links

43. Human Resources

About…

44. Institute of Silly and Meaningless Sayings

45. Leadership Now

46. Leadership Tools

47. Leader-Values

48. Leading Today

49. Lessons in Lifemanship

50. Management Help

51. Manager Wise

52. ManageTrainLearn

53. Marshall House

54. Mind Power System

55. Mind Tools

56. MIT OpenCourseware

57. mp3motivators

58. National School Board Association

59. Negotiation Enterprises

60. Negotiator Magazine

61. New Conversations

62. Office Diversions

63. Patricia Fripp

64. People Alchemy

65. Penn State Psychology

66. Personal Development

67. Philip Humbert

68. Positive Club

69. Presentation Helper

70. Proven Models

71. Robin Sharma

72. Roger Dawson

73. Ron Kaufman

74. Salad Ltd

75. Silicon Beach Training

76. Skills Converged

77. Stressbusting

78. Success.bz

79. Self Growth

80. Test Café

81. The Change Agent

82. The Leadership Hub

83. The Improvement

Encyclopedia

84. The Logic of Success

85. The Manager




86. The Workplace Doctors

87. Thiagi

88. Thinking Managers

89. Tickled By Life

90. Tom Antion

91. Tom Peters

92. Trainerbubble

93. Trans4Mind

94. Value-Based

Management

95. Vark Learning Styles

96. Wilderdom

97. Workforce Online

98. Work Worries

99. Xage Consultancy

100. Zig Ziglar




1. 1000Ventures

New Wonder of the

World

What a great way to start this compilation!

This site is the brainchild of Vadim Kotelnikov who describes his

Ten3 Business E-Coaching site as “the world‟s number 1

inspirational business e-coaching resource”. It links to two of his other sites at www.1000advices.com and www.success360.com.

The first impression you get of each site is the bright primary colours of the different models and the huge amount of

fascinating information packed in. It reminded me of an

interactive mind map.

Don‟t ask me what‟s here because the answer is, Everything. And

lots of fascinating original stuff too. I was particularly attracted to models called “The Jazz of Innovation” and “The Tao of Business

Success”. In fact, there‟s so much that it‟s the sort of site you

reserve for a rainy Sunday afternoon when there‟s not much else to do. It‟s sure to brighten up your day.

Brilliant!

Summary of Free Resources: Colourful and original models of management

Series of colourful hyper-slides

Original ideas, connections and advice

Site Home Address:

http://www.1000ventures.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.1000advices.com/

http://www.success360.com/

http://www.1000ventures.com/

mailto:[email protected]



2. 12Manage

Rigour and Relevance

I ferreted about on this site for quite a while trying to work out

why it was called “12Manage”. At first, I thought it was because

you can translate any page into any one of 12 languages (including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Only after

more wandering around did I realize that in fact it‟s due to the 12

hubs around which the site is built. These hubs are 12 management disciplines ranging from change through human

resources and leadership to supply change and quality.

This site is a formidable resource. At its core is an A to Z

dictionary of management methods, models and theory. When I

last looked there were over 1500 easy-to-access entries. Since you can add your own entries to the dictionary, the chances are

the number is much higher by now.

In addition to the dictionary, there‟s also a management news

section giving links to all the latest management gossip; a list of

courses being run (to which you can add your own); and a forum.

It‟s like an internet in an internet just for managers.

Summary of Free Resources: an A to Z dictionary of 1500 management terms

forum

news links.

Site Home Address:

http://www.12manage.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.12manage.com/




3. A Better Workplace

Making Workplaces Work Better

I love this website which is the brainchild of Daniel Robin. It‟s not fancy, colourful, or trendy, but it is

full of great content for anyone interested in making their

workplace a better place.

Where to start? Well, there‟s a 13-part series on leadership with sections such as “Knowing when to get out of the way”, “Nature‟s

Leadership Lessons”; and “Measuring the Mirth”. Then there are

toolkit, tips, and tools sections.

But what makes me pop back to this site regularly is its

irreverent series of Laugh At Work features. Daniel lists the things you shouldn‟t say at work, (my pick of which is the

phrase: “That is so not going to happen”); senseless acts of

immaturity (eg “Skip rather than walk”); and Ways not to describe your boss (eg “The elevator is on the ground floor and

he‟s pushing the down button”).

Who said that work should be too serious anyway?

Summary of Free Resources: forum on workplace issues

e-letters and archive

huge selection of articles self-evaluations

laugh-at-work features (add dontsayit.html;

describe_coworkers.html; and dysfirmations.html to the site address)

massive list of resource references.

Site Home Address:

http://www.abetterworkplace.com

Email:

[email protected]


http://www.abetterworkplace.com/




4. Accelerated Learning

Free Learning Styles Test

This is a lovely site. It‟ll introduce you to the concept of Accelerated Learning for both adults and children and offers a

free Personal Learning Style test based on the theory of Howard Gardner that each of us has one of 8 intelligences. (Linguistic,

Mathematical, Visual, Musical, Inter-personal, Intra-personal,

Bodily, and Naturalistic).

There are 35 questions in the test which is very well-designed

and shows the effect of your answers as you proceed. The questions are all straightforward, eg “I keep a personal diary”

and “I am a good talker with a well-developed vocabulary”.

I know that I am linguistic and so was curious to see whether the

test would come out right. It did!

Summary of Free Resources:

learning style profile.

Site Home Address:

http://www.acceleratedlearning.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.acceleratedlearning.com/




5. Accel-Team

Advancing Employee

Productivity

There are some nice

features on this site. There‟s a history of

employee productivity

that will take you all the way back to the Pyramids. (For example, did you know that the base of this huge structure is

only 7 inches from being a perfect square?). Then there are

detailed features on teambuilding, motivation, and employee development, plus some well-presented explanations of time

management, self-appraisal, and coaching.

One thing that‟s a bit different here is a set of Checklists. They

include Time utilization, Machine utilization, Space utilization, and

Interpersonal relations.

Summary of Free Resources: pdf articles on coaching, productivity and team development

excellent and well-illustrated modules on teambuilding and

motivation.

Site Home Address:

http://www.accel-team.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.accel-team.com/




6. Action Leadership

Brent Filson’s Leadership System

It‟s funny how some management writers just do it

for you while others don‟t. For me, Brent Filson does

it and this is his website where you‟ll find his collection of management and leadership articles.

I‟m not too sure exactly why I like his writing. It could be because he always seems to come up with a refreshingly new

angle that just makes me think “but of course…”

Take his article “Elephants Can Jump” for instance. Here Brent

makes the point that, unlike management which involves simply

the care and feeding of the organisational elephant, leadership makes the elephant jump. He goes on, “From now on, see every

leadership challenge as a way of having people increase their

knowledge, skills, courage, tenacity, and leadership abilities. And to cultivate that perspective you need kindness.”

I like the concept that management trainers and management training should be kind. And that‟s why I think I like Brent Filson.

Yes, I‟d willingly jump through hoops if he asked me.


insightful leadership articles.

Site Home Address:

http://www.actionleadership.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.actionleadership.com/




7. Aimm Consulting

Performance Based Assessment Questionnaire

One of the most attractive features of many management and

personal development websites is the chance to assess your

skills. The website of Aimm Consulting gives you the chance to find out how good you are at influencing and leading. There are

14 questions covering areas like “I explore with others different

ways to accomplish goals”. You‟re offered some examples of “always doing” this, or “rarely doing” this. Then you score

yourself. The final score will give you a feedback on areas such

as Delegation, Motivation, and Conveying Credibility, which are great starting points for further self-development.

I took the test and was honest (I really was!) and this is how I scored: good at conveying credibility but improvement could be

made in all other areas.


personal flexibility skills test

situational judgment tests articles

quotes

newsletter.

Site Home Address:

http://www.aimmconsult.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.aimmconsult.com/




8. All Business

Champions of Small Business

This is an amazing site for anyone running a small business.

There‟s everything you could possibly need to help you run an

efficient business. There‟s advice on managing every aspect of your business, including employment and HR and business plans.

There are news reports, blogs, guides and tips. And there are

special campaigns such as the one I followed called “6 for 06” where six businesses are followed for a period of six months.

Of course, many of the products on the site are only available through purchase, but there is a huge amount of free material.

One that particularly caught my eye was a search directory of

over 700 business publications containing over one million (yep, that‟s one million!) articles. I couldn‟t resist it so I looked up at

random a leadership publication and chose Journal of Leadership

and Organisation. This led me to a number of articles from which I chose Empowerment in the Context of Organisational Change.

And sure enough there it was. One in a million.

Isn‟t the web amazing?


blogs

tip of the day database of business periodicals.

Site Home Address: http://www.allbusiness.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.allbusiness.com/




9. Anecdotage

Famous People, Funny Stories

If you‟re looking for an amusing story to

add to a presentation, illustrate a learning point, or just to

entertain friends at the pub, then this is the place to visit.

It‟s absolutely crammed with anecdotes, aphorisms, and amusing

stories, perhaps more than you‟ll ever need to get to grips with. Fortunately, there‟s a useful search button that allows you to

fine-tune your search according to a category, name or keyword.

When I keyed in “Business”, the database came up with 493 stories.

How about this one pulled out at random? It‟s about Japanese businessman, Koji Fujii who in 2003 marketed little pieces of

gold-plated excrement as lucky charms. He sold over 2 million,

partly on the basis that the Japanese word for “poo” (unko) is an anagram of the word for “luck” (koun).

Now, tell that down the pub and see if they believe you!


a huge resource of anecdotes including business stories.

Site Home Address:

http://www.anecdotage.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.anecdotage.com/




10. Be a Better Manager

Solve Problems; Seize Opportunities;

Achieve Results

The first thing you see on the Be a Better

Manager website is a spinning wheel that breaks management into 6 key areas. These

are: Strategy; Information; Processes;

Physical Resources; People; and Financial Resources. Click on any of these and you

get a selection of links. Click on a link and

you get a diagram with individual lists of do‟s and don‟ts. If you register and log in, you can build your

own personal collection of checklists.

This website is particularly useful for managers in the UK. It

provides a list of industry sectors with links to their Skills Council.

In the same way, the checklists from the spinning wheel all link to the relevant National UK Occupational Standard, showing how

learning a skill related to levels of performance. There are also

links to local resources around the UK.

Lastly, there‟s an online questionnaire to find out what your

strengths and weaknesses as a manager are. It has 15 questions and delivers immediate feedback.


Checklists on best practice

Good links Management questionnaire

Site Home Address: http://www.beabettermanager.com

Email Address: [email protected]


http://www.beabettermanager.com/




11. Basic

Learning Systems Inc

Do You Know Your Reading Speed?

If you want to find out how quick you read, then spare a minute

or two for this easy test from Basic Learning Systems Inc, a

business communications company run by Gloria Pincu.

The test is designed to measure your English reading speed

which for most people is slightly less than 200 words per minute. All you do is click a start button when you begin to read a

passage and then after 20 seconds a pop-up box stops you. Note

where you got to, and hey presto, you‟ll find out your reading speed.

For the record, I made it to 354. Of course, it doesn‟t exactly test your comprehension, but who‟s counting?


reading test (add /bls/readtest.htm to the site address)

weekly business writing tips.

Site Home Address:

http://www.basic-learning.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.basic-learning.com/




12. Better Workplace Now

Free Buzzword Bingo

Tom Terez is a man with a mission and this is

his website. Tom‟s aim is to create better

workplaces.

I‟ll let him take up the story:” Imagine a workplace where

everyone is fully engaged. Where people eagerly use their brainpower. Where teamwork comes naturally. Where kindness

rules. Imagine the innovative power of such an organization.

Imagine the sense of mission and spirit of fun. Imagine its passion for serving customers. Imagine its ability to attract and

retain talent, to compete, to thrive.”

Yea, just imagine!

One of the fun ideas on this site is Tom‟s set of free buzzword Bingo cards. This is a card of 25 squares on which is printed a

buzzword eg “empower”; “value-added”; “envision”. You simply

take this card to your next meeting and see if you can mark 5 buzzwords in a row. Just be sure you know what reaction you‟ll

get if you suddenly interrupt the chairman‟s speech with cries of

“Bingo!”

Summary of Free Resources: buzzword bingo (add /bingo/index.html to site address)

difficult dozen help zone

instant feedback report awful bosses hall of fame

article reprint centre.

Site Home Address:

http://www.betterworkplacenow.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.betterworkplacenow.com/




13. Big Dog and Little Dog's Bowl of

Biscuits

The History of Training

Don Clark is the mastermind behind this

formidable resource on everything to do with training and learning. It‟s a massive

resource and a lot of it is original. Amongst the goodies are:

current training news; the art and science of leadership; the learning process; definitions of learning terms; and performance

management.

But the one feature I remember from years ago when I first

came across this site, and still look at, is The History of Training.

It‟s the best around. You‟ll take a journey from Lao Tzu‟s Ancient China via Plato and Socrates in Ancient Greece through medieval

guilds to e-learning. It‟s still as good as ever.

By the way, in case you‟re wondering about that title, Don has a

big German shepherd dog and a smaller companion.


a massive resource on performance, learning, leadership and knowledge.

Site Home Address: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/



http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/




14. Body Language Expert

Understanding Body Language and the

Signals

BodyLanguageExpert contains over 60

articles written by experts who continually update and add new content.

There are 7 topic areas: Ask Our Experts; Gender Differences; Parenting

Advice; Personal Interaction; Practical

Applications; The Basics; and The Business World.

So, in one tour of this site, I learnt how to use my body language at job interviews, why mobile phone shop staff don‟t use desks,

and how to convey sincerity and warmth with my face and

gestures.

Cue: open smile, relaxed stance, and friendly gesture.


articles on all aspects of body language

Site Home Address:

http://www.bodylanguageexpert.co.uk

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.bodylanguageexpert.co.uk/




15. Brain Connection

Brain Buzz

This is a fabulous site on everything to do with

the brain.

You‟ll learn curious facts such as why we have to scratch an itch

and why phone numbers in America are 7 digits long.

Then you can view nicely-designed animations which uncover

what goes on in your brain, such as why you conceive a word in

one part of your brain and utter it from another.

There‟s a weekly brain bender to test your knowledge (which I

got wrong!); a series of articles on things like how we remember and why we forget (I now know exactly where a new face is

stored in my head); and a set of 29 images that dissect the brain

as if you were there with a scalpel!

But, to be honest, the thing that always draws me back to this

site is its collection of Brain Teasers. You can play Bumper Cows, Sound Sequence or Dunk Tank.

It‟s like a couple of hours doing press-ups down the brain gym!

Summary of Free Resources: articles, illusions, brain teasers, brain games, quiz, A to Z

glossary

animations free half hour online course.

Site Home Address:

http://brainconnection.positscience.com/



http://brainconnection.positscience.com/




16. Business Balls

Great Balls of Fire

This is Alan Chapman‟s mega site.

It‟s absolutely huge and covers everything you could ever need

on training, management and business.

It has all the familiar, and not so familiar, models like those from

Maslow, McGregor and McLelland; a glossary of training terms; feedback forms; time management planners; appraisal forms;

induction training checklists; the tree swing cartoons; and

Aesop‟s fables. It even has a graphology test, explaining how to read personality from your handwriting. There‟s a fun test that

Alan calls “Big Boys Test” where you have to insert the names of

cars into a story. And templates of resignation letters.

Shall I go on? I‟ve barely scratched the surface. Where Alan got

the time from to produce all this beats me. But while others charge for a fraction of what‟s here, this is all free. So just go

and enjoy it!


teambuilding activities, exercises and icebreakers motivational and amusing posters

file tools and materials

puzzles, quizzes, multiple intelligence tests training models

and much more too numerous to mention.

Site Home Address:

http://www.businessballs.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.businessballs.com/




17. Business Marketing

Free Magazine Subscriptions

Here‟s a free offer of trade magazines in both

professional subject areas like Human Resources

and Sales and Marketing, as well as in categories such as Education, Government, Internet, and

Transportation. It comes from Business Training Media who offer

onsite courses and a big catalogue of training materials.

The free professional trade magazines on offer include: Human

Resource Executive; Corporate Meetings and Incentives; Presentations; Call Centre; and The Deal.

A specific area like the Internet offers 33 different publications ranging from Application Development Trends to eWeek and HP

World Magazine. Take them while they‟re on offer!


free video previews newsletter tips

free magazine subscriptions

management articles.

Site Home Address:

http://www.business-marketing.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.business-marketing.com/




18. Business Simplification

Simple Really

This is Australian David Brewster‟s

site devoted to ways of simplifying business.

This is what David says: “Cost reduction has been a central focus

in most businesses for many years now. Yet there is one hidden

area of cost which has rarely been addressed: complexity. Complexity imposes its price on organizations as a whole and on

each individual within them: managers and staff and even

customers. The only way to deal with it is to focus more effort on simplicity.”

When you register here you get a free toolkit including a meeting planner, a busy manager‟s complexity audit, a Make It Simple

poster, and a set of paperclip templates to keep the campaign

fresh in your mind.

Summary of Free Resources: E-book called “Success with Simplicity”

toolkit of materials

monthly e-zine.

Site Home Address:

http://www.businesssimplification.com.au

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.businesssimplification.com.au/




19. Changing Minds

How We Change What Others Think, Believe, Feel and Do

I am full of admiration for the author of this site, David Straker.

He‟s compiled a huge resource of interconnected websites

covering the whole gamut of learning models and theories.

In David‟s own words, he is first a learning junkie, hooked on the

thrill of discovery; second, an engineer who needs to connect theory to practice, and thirdly a teacher who loves to pass on the

aha‟s of what he knows.

In fact, changingminds is just one of a tribe of sites from David

Straker. The others are: syque, creating minds, quality toolbook,

improvement encyclopaedia, and business articles. They probably account for over 6000 web pages of industrial-strength

knowledge.

David apologises that his creations are done in his spare time. No

need to apologise, David. You‟re what the web‟s all about. Well

done!

Summary of Free Resources: forum

blog (with nice references to his family and friends)

huge collection of disciplines, techniques, principles, and explanations.

Site Home Address: http://www.changingminds.org

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.changingminds.org/




20. Citehr

Improving

Organisations

The CiteMan network is

one of my favourite resources.

It‟s the brainchild of Sidhartha Roy who founded the network back in May 2004 with the sole mission of helping improve

organisational business management.

The network now has hundreds of thousands of members from

India where it is based to every corner of the world. One of the

beauties of the network is that it allows exchanges of real-world business situations rather than just straight theory. When I last

looked there were over 50,000 downloadable resources.

There are 7 networks – Finance, General, HR, Operations, and

Sales/Marketing, Legal, and Jobs. Each is a goldmine of

information, ideas and resources. As Sidhartha says, “everything is available to everyone at no charge; use it well!”

Summary of Free Resources: massive network of management.

Site Home Address:

http://www.citehr.com/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.citehr.com/




21. Coaching2grow

Online Executive Coaching for Managers

Coaching2Grow is an online coaching resource for managers. You can use it as a standalone coaching

tool or as a supplement to working with a live coach.

Coaching2Grow covers most of the topics and issues that

managers discuss with coaches including: Leading others; Working with difficult colleagues; Managing yourself better; and

Influencing a tough boss.

As you work your way through the topics, you can make notes on

your thoughts and plans in a Personal Growth Workbook. One

exercise you can do on your computer screen is to identify your top 10 personal strengths from a long list.

There are also 18 self-assessment quizzes to assess your own performance and suggest areas for change. They range from

Feedback to Musts and Shoulds and Enemy No 1.

Why employ a coach when you can do it all yourself?

Summary of Free Resources: Personal growth workbook

Strengths inventory

18 sets of quizzes

Site Home Address:

http://www.coaching2grow.com/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.coaching2grow.com/




22. Customer Service Manager

Are You Being Served?

Customer Service Manager describes itself

as “the web‟s leading community for

customer service professionals – bringing you news, reviews, articles and resources to help improve

customer service worldwide!” It‟s an e-magazine for Customer

Service Professionals.

There are tons of great information on this site. In a short visit, I

learned that the average European consumer spends 2 hours 3 minutes a week dealing with customer services; that people in

Poland are the most satisfied with customer service; and that

lengthy waiting times are still the top frustration of customers.

What else? Well, there‟s a great free magazine and technical

document subscription service with 16 products offered. There‟s one of the biggest lists of customer service articles I‟ve seen. And

a series of useful aids, such as Customer Service Job

Descriptions, Tests, Surveys, and Scorecards.

Summary of Free Resources: Magazine subscriptions

Articles on customer service

Service topics

Site Home Address:

http://www.customerservicemanager.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.customerservicemanager.com/




23. Customer Service Training

Deliver Today, See Results Tomorrow

This is the Telephone Doctor or Customer

Service Training site. Where you come when you‟re sick of

customers, perhaps?

No, seriously, it‟s a smashing site run by Nancy Friedman, who‟s

put together a library of video programmes on customer service.

On the link below, you‟ll find 16 free previews of the videos.

They‟re all hard-hitting, to the point, and expertly presented by Nancy herself.

Amongst my favourites are: “Exploring the Rudeness Matrix”; “Five Forbidden Phrases”; and “From Curt to Courteous”.

Summary of Free Resources: newsletter

video previews.

Site Home Address:

http://www.servicetraining.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.servicetraining.com/




24. Discovery Health Channel

A Test of Your Communications Skills

If you‟re into self-assessments, here‟s a true feast. You can get

31 free Basic Personality tests on this site, ranging from Your

Anger profile, through Communications Skills, to Perfectionism, Procrastination and Type “A” Personality tests. (They‟re all taken

from the Queendom site, so if you want more of the same, pop

over there).

Here‟s an example of what you‟ll face in one of the set, the Locus

of Control and Arbitration test.

The preamble explains: This test assesses your locus of control

orientation and your attribution style. "A locus of control orientation is a belief about whether the outcomes of our actions

are contingent on what we do (internal control orientation) or on

events outside our personal control (external control orientation)."

There are 10 statements with which you strongly disagree, disagree, partially agree/disagree, agree, or strongly agree.

The first statement is: “Heredity determines most of a person‟s personality” and the last one is: “If you set realistic goals, you

can succeed no matter what”.

Now off you go!


free personality tests.

Site Home Address:

http://health.discovery.com/tools/assessments.html

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://health.discovery.com/tools/assessments.html




25. DWM Beancounter

We Count While You Manage

I‟m a bit of a duffer where accounts are

concerned (thank goodness for a good

accountant!), so a good free course on all things accounting is right up my street.

Dave Marshall‟s Bookkeeping course fits the bill nicely. He has a nice friendly, reassuring

and conversational style. I don‟t feel I‟m being talked down to

and there‟s no jargon.

There are 7 lessons in the course, covering stuff like Debits and

Credits, The General Ledger and Journals, and Financial Statements.

As well as viewing this free course, you can also sign up for Dave‟s other courses (eg Special Journals; Payroll; and

Merchandise Inventory) as a guest and get the first lessons free.

There‟s another great free service that Dave offers: links to free

business software. You‟ll find links to the Open Office suite of

programmes; Onestep Accounting; Big E-Z‟s free trial version; Acemoney Lite; Checkmate Plus; Lazy8 Ledger; and many more.

All this should put you in your accountant‟s good books!

Summary of Free Resources: free bookkeeping course

links to free financial software.

Site Home Address:

http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/moodle/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/moodle/




26. Easy

Training

And You Think

Strawberries Are For Eating!

Most management speeches tend to fall into two types: the

formal ritual, as in the awards presentation or retirement bash;

or the procedural, as in the annual statement to the board.

Prepare then to be captivated by a wonderful presentation from

James Lavenson to the American Marketing Association that fits neither of these categories.

It‟ll have you smiling to yourself one minute and nodding in agreement the next. It works on many levels. It‟s an astonishing

testimony to an inspiring leader, (Lavenson was president and

chief executive of the prestigious Plaza Hotel in New York); it‟s a great template for a superb presentation, (check out the almost

imperceptible presentation techniques that are used); and it‟s a

unique learning experience.

(You guessed: I like it!)

Just read it. And just hope that you have a leader who can

similarly rise to the occasion next time he or she is in front of a

microphone!

Summary of Free Resources: articles

customer service presentation script.

Site Home Address:

http://www.easytraining.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.easytraining.com/




27. Empowering

Messages

Free Empowerment Chats

This is an uplifting site that should put you in a good mood. It‟s

all about empowerment (aka positivity).

There are empowering stories, cartoons, a huge collection of

positive news stories, and some really inspiring articles.

But what is a bit special about this site is the collection of 83

empowering audio messages from some of the top positivity speakers in the USA.

You‟ll be able to listen to Jack Canfield on “The Power of Studying Success”, Lisa Jimenez on “The Power of Conquering Your Fear”

and Greg Reid on “The Power of Now”.

Now, if that doesn‟t brighten your day, there‟s no hope for you!


audio messages.

Site Home Address:

http://www.empoweringmessages.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.empoweringmessages.com/




28. Entrepreneur

Make It Big In Business

The Entrepreneur website is the shop window for the

Entrepreneur magazine which is an American magazine sold off

line from most bookstalls and booksellers. As the title implies, it‟s aimed at start-up and home-based businesses and if it‟s advice

you‟re after, there‟s heaps of it here.

For a start, there‟s everything you could possibly need to know

on starting a business, from finding an attorney to engaging new

staff. There are ideas galore on what kind of business to make money in, from home-based businesses to franchises. And

there‟s a hand-holding guide to managing and growing your

business, from raising money to taking time off. As if all that weren‟t enough, there‟s an A to Z encyclopaedia of small

business terms.

Now all you have to do is count your first million!


newsletters

business tools calculators

an A to Z of small business terms

topics, features, and magazine.

Site Home Address: http://www.entrepreneur.com



http://www.entrepreneur.com/




29. Evan Carmichael

Motivation and

Strategies for

Entrepreneurs

If you‟re an entrepreneur looking for help, training, and advice, this is the site for you.

Evan Carmichael is a Toronto-based entrepreneur who has his own communications group. He succeeded at the early age of 19

with his own software company and now his passion is to pass

his secrets on to others.

On this site, you‟ll find a treasure-trove of resources for

entrepreneurs. These include videos, articles, advice, bios of famous entrepreneurs, and a page of unique resources supplied

by contributing experts. At the start of the year, there were 348

items, including Creating a Mission Statement to Maslow for Entrepreneurs to Start Up Capital Strategies.


Videos on famous entrepreneurs eg Steve Jobs

Blog network Template downloads, eg Partner Questionnaire

Tools and guides

Entrepreneur advice Free downloads.

Site Home Address: http://www.evancarmichael.com/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.evancarmichael.com/




30. Everyone Negotiates

YIKES ,You’ve Got To Be Kidding

This is Peter Barron Starks‟ site, which he calls:

“your premier resource for sharpening your

negotiating skills”. It‟s not hard to see why.

There are lots of free resources here on negotiating, including a

test of your negotiating style, a monthly newsletter, and incisive articles. But what caught my eye was his list of over 60 short

sharp negotiating gambits. They‟ll catch your attention too

because they‟re very much to the point and memorable.

Who, for instance, would forget “YIKES You‟ve Got to be Kidding”

which is about expressing surprise to your opponent, or “Appealing to Mother Teresa” which is a cunning message for

help that only a hard-hearted person could refuse.

If these gambits don‟t turn you into a powerful deal-maker, I‟ll

eat my hat.


articles, newsletters and collection of negotiation gambits negotiating style self-assessment.

Site Home Address: http://www.everyonenegotiates.com



http://www.everyonenegotiates.com/




31. Executive Coaching Studio

Free E-Course for Executives

This is an executive coaching website run by Sean

McPheat. One of the free goodies on offer is a 5-

part email course called “The Top 5 Secrets of the Most Successful Executives”.

The 5 parts arrive in succession in your email box and because of Sean‟s laid-back, friendly style are easy to read and easy to

absorb.

After the first part which is an Introduction, you get “Making

Things Happen”, then “Great Communication Skills are Part of

the Top Executive‟s Armoury”, followed by “Understanding Others” and ending up with “Seeking Good Counsel”.

Beats those long journeys to training courses!

Summary of Free Resources: articles, newsletter

email course for executives.

Site Home Address:

http://www.executivecoachingstudio.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.executivecoachingstudio.com/




32. Executive Planet

Cross-cultural Training

If you do business around the world, this

site is an essential companion to your

airline tickets, suitcase, and hotel booking.

Its main feature is a guide to business culture when negotiating in 49 different countries. For each country, you get advice on:

negotiating tactics; entertaining; making appointments; how to

address people; what to wear; and conversational do‟s and don‟ts.

Plus for each country, you‟ll get advice from an expert along with facts about laws, culture, and etiquette.

The site works like a wiki, meaning you can register and update articles.


Details of how to communicate in 49 different countries from

Argentina to Yemen.

Site Home Address:

http://www.executiveplanet.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.executiveplanet.com/




33. Ezine Articles

Ezine Articles for Authors

I had to include an article directory in

this compilation simply because of the huge amount of material

you‟ll find on any one of these sites. For me, the best article directory by far is Ezine Articles, run by Christopher Knight.

This site is mind-bogglingly massive. Here are a couple of statistics. It has over 100,000 articles (and probably growing all

the time). And over 25,000 authors (also probably growing all

the time).

What makes Ezine Articles the best of a big bunch is that it

doesn‟t just allow anyone to stick any article on its site. It reviews everything that it archives which means you‟ll get only

good stuff. I‟ve spent many a valuable hour or two here and

come away with ideas that would make my head burst.

In the business section, there are all the categories you could

wish for if you are looking to extend or update your knowledge, including: Customer Service, Change Management,

Teambuilding, Presentation, Negotiation, Communication, and

Top 10 Tips. In the Self-Improvement section, you‟ll find Leadership, Time Management, Coaching, Goal Setting,

Motivation, and Creativity. The list just goes on and on.

See you in a couple of hours‟ time!


massive article directory.

Site Home Address:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.ezinearticles.com/




34. Fast Company

How Smart People Work

Fast Company is one of the

original business information

websites. I first came across it many years ago when the Internet was still relatively small and it‟s nice to report that it‟s

still going strong.

Essentially, of course, Fast Company is a monthly business print

magazine that you can subscribe to. But on the site you can see

the current edition for free and read selected articles. You can also browse their massive archive of past copies. But that‟s

nowhere near all they do.

For a start, you can subscribe to some very useful newsletters.

The one I like most is Fast Take, which is a weekly roundup from

the Web. For those of us too busy to spend every day surfing.

Then, there‟s the Fast 50 which are 50 portraits of businesses

that are writing the history of the future; a directory of businesses in your area (States only unfortunately); and a series

of slide shows which includes: Six Jobs That Won‟t Exist in 2016

(I‟m OK, mine‟s not there) and Top 10 Bosses From Hell.

All in all, a fast feast.


newsletters tools you can use

the corporate shrink agony aunt

portraits of the future slide shows.

Site Home Address: http://www.fastcompany.com



http://www.fastcompany.com/




35. Fenman

Your One-Stop Shop For All Your

Training Needs

Fenman is a UK company with a

long and successful record of creating training resources for management and personal development. They are now a

formidable presence on the Web.

The beauty of this site is that you can access all Fenman‟s offline

products and at the same time instantly download free samples.

There‟s so much information that if you downloaded everything

that‟s available, you‟d have a huge library of valuable material.

As an example, this is what I did. I clicked on just one of their 25

categories, Recruitment, Selection and Induction. That took me

to a page with 8 big products of which I was able to download samples from 4. As a result I had free access to over 70 pages of

really excellent material including an exercise on Tackling

Bullying, How to run an Assessment Centre, an Induction Toolkit, and an exercise on identifying employees with talent, called

Danger – Talent Zombies!

Thank you, Fenman!


huge range of training products with many free samples.

Site Home Address:

http://www.fenman.co.uk

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.fenman.co.uk/




36. First Steps Training

Put Life Back Into Your

Employees

I‟m a sucker for new team games and I‟ve included this site

because many of the free activities listed here I‟d never come across before.

For example, how about “The Great Mississippi Lizard Egg” or “Moonball” or “Wampum” ? Even the names are original.

I won‟t tell you what you have to do in these games (they‟re far too complicated). Just pop on over and try them for yourself.

Incidentally, First Steps Training also provides a (paid) service where they will email you an exercise within 3 days to suit any

specification you give them.


team games performance builders webcasts

free training activities

team effectiveness questionnaire.

Site Home Address:

http://www.firststepstraining.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.firststepstraining.com/




37. Games2Train

Serious Training In a Game

Environment

Wouldn‟t it be fantastic if we could get kids to be

so enthralled with learning that they missed mealtimes, TV and other distractions? That‟s the aim of Marc

Prensky who‟s authored a book along these lines called “Don‟t

Bother Me Mom – I‟m Learning” and has created this website where the main form of training is playing games.

There are 6 categories of games: Video games, Multiplayer games, Certification games, Quiz shows, Flash games, and Phone

games. You can try out all of the categories if you have Flash

installed.

I gave Quiz show a go and chose Sexual Harassment as my

subject. I then got to choose who I wanted to be and who to play against and the game started. The questions are the usual range

of multiple choice and true or false but the graphics, audio, and

design makes you really believe you‟re on a TV quiz show. I scored quite well and I certainly learnt.

Great fun! Could this be the way our kids really will learn?

Summary of Free Resources: samples of Flash-based training games.

Site Home Address: http://www.games2train.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.games2train.com/




38. Get More Done

A Free Time Tabulator

In case you don‟t know what a time

tabulator is, here‟s one from Pace

Productivity. It‟s a way of working out how much time you spend on the

11 main areas of your life: from employment, to family, sleep

and TV and so on.

When you‟ve allocated your weekly hours, you can see a pie

chart of how well you do compared to others. You can also enter your ideal profile to see where you want to be.

In addition to the time tabulator, the site offers 10 time tamer tips; some research into the top time wasters; and interesting

time management quotes.

That‟s, of course, if you‟ve got the time to read them!


time tabulator

quotes, tips, and research on time management.

Site Home Address:

http://www.getmoredone.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.getmoredone.com/




39. Harvard

Business School

Are These the Greatest Ever Business Leaders?

Here‟s a run-down of 1000 of the greatest American business

leaders of the 20th century.

For non-Americans, there will be some unfamiliar names on the

list, but most people will recognize people like Elizabeth Arden, Clarence Birdseye, Gilbert Colgate, and Hugh Hefner.

There are brief but fascinating bios of each leader. Did you know, for example, that Thomas Watson of IBM brought out the

company‟s first computer as early as 1952? Or that Henry J.

Heinz started peddling his family‟s home-grown produce at the age of 8?

Work hard and you might be in next century‟s list!

Summary of Free Resources: biographies of 1000 business leaders.

Site Home Address: http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/index.html



http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/index.html




40. Harvey Mackay

Survive A Swim With the Sharks

There aren‟t too many gurus in this list of

the top 100 Management and Personal

Development websites. But I keep a special place for Harvey Mackay. It‟s just that he

tells such a good story.

If you want to know what I mean, read the articles on this

website. For a start, just like the titles of his books (one of which

“Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” is behind our sub-heading above), the headings of these articles are

immediately grabbable.

There‟s “The heart of education is the education of the heart”. Or

“Some squares are really sharp”. Or how about “Say thanks

before it‟s just a memory”.

Then there‟s the content. Many of these articles kick off with

fascinating stories of successful business leaders or managers. (Harvey knows we‟re all curious deep down). And then he draws

some universal truths out of these stories that help us take home

the message.

Finally, he‟s just a great writer. You just have to read his stuff.

And he packs a big message in the shortest possible space. Yep, I reckon you‟ll learn a lot from this site. Enjoy!


management articles.

Site Home Address:

http://www.mackay.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.mackay.com/




41. Hello, My Name Is Scott

Stick Yourself Out There

In my review of this site, I was going

to say that a great future awaits Scott

Ginsberg. And then I realised that this isn‟t true. He‟s already got a great

present!

OK, Scott is still young, but he has already written 7 books,

launched his own interactive TV, is a regular columnist, has a

suite of websites, and has made a brand out of a nametag. (Apparently, he also has a nametag tattooed on his chest.)

The theme behind Scott‟s ideas is Approachability. It underlies his Hello, My Name is Scott website. Here you‟ll find what must

be the biggest selection of articles related to Approachability

anywhere. There are over 700 of them.

Many of Scott‟s themes really chime with me. One of them is the

idea that you shouldn‟t create customers; you should create fans. Another is his comfort around using modern technology to build

customer relations.

If you can‟t get enough of Scott on this site, take a look at his

other video site and consultancy site.


Over 700 articles on making an impact

Site Home Address:

http://www.hellomynameisscott.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.hellomynameisscott.com/




42. Human Links

The Only Indian Portal

On HR Development

This is a lovely Indian website that provides a wide range of

services for human resource professionals.

Amongst the many free goodies on offer here (along with the

articles, links, forum, news and jobs) are a wide set of personality tests, a wide range of managerial tests (eg Manager

in a Fix), a range of audits, (from training needs to climate,

thinking skills to job satisfaction) and some general knowledge tests.

Wherever you are, use it.


management articles tests

forum.

Site Home Address:

http://www.humanlinks.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.humanlinks.com/




43. Human

Resources About…

Free Learning Styles Test

If you haven‟t yet become acquainted with the About concept,

then you‟re in for a great treat. About – as the name suggests – is a multi-channel site that gives you an encyclopaedic tour of a

wide range of topics. They start with 19th Century History and

end up with Zoology. On the way they tackle Human Resources with guide Susan Heathfield.

Susan takes you through 4 main areas: HR Basics; Employing People; Managing People; and Success at Work. Throughout the

channel, you‟ll find topics on Change Management,

Communications, Employee Recognition, Management/Leadership, Motivation, Performance Management,

and Teambuilding.

To help you through this wealth of material, there are links to the

most popular sections, the “must reads”, and the latest updates.

As with all About sites, there are free 5-week email classes, here

including “Recruit and Hire the Best”.


Learning style profile Free policy samples, checklists and forms

Interview tips

Job descriptions Free email classes.

Site Home Address:

http://humanresources.about.com



http://humanresources.about.com/




44. Institute of Silly and Meaningless Sayings

Bullshine Generator

Here‟s some light relief, albeit with a serious

purpose. It‟s the website of the Institute of Silly and

Meaningless Sayings (author unknown but probably someone by the name of R Pottinger!)

Part of the spoof is that it is set up as a legitimate institute and thus lampoons some professional institutes that take themselves

far too seriously. For example, you can become a member of the

institute and learn about the institute‟s history and purpose. There‟s a coat of arms (motto: Back to Quo Vadis), roll of honour

and list of “bored” members.

The purpose of all this fun is to highlight some of the silly things

we do and say in the workplace. There‟s a swipe at management

models, a list of hilarious workplace clichés, a Bullshine generator for producing management speak, a way to curse colleagues

using pirate-speak (I kid you not!) and a Babel translator telling

you what various professional people really mean behind the words they say.

For a flavour of each of these, here‟s my favourite cliché: “He was in and out like a yo-yo”; my favourite bullshine phrase: “Has

anyone seen my random data-stream analyser?”; and my

favourite pirate curse: “What care I, thou plump, black-spotted pigeonfoot!”

Odd, but great fun.

Summary of Free Resources: bullshine generator, ISMS curser, ISMS Babel translator

carparktivity stickers.

Site Home Address:

http://www.btinternet.com/~rpottinger/index.htm

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.btinternet.com/~rpottinger/index.htm




45. Leadership

Now

Building A

Community of Leaders

There are a number of familiar features on this site such as

leadership quotes, articles and a newsletter.

But there are 2 features that make this site just a little bit

different. For a start, there‟s a feature called Leadership Minute.

This is a series of short one-minute reads on leadership subjects. They include: “Thirteen Mistakes of Leadership” and “First Class

Noticers”.

The other valuable feature is a reading room where you can read

excerpts from some of the best management books around. They

include: Brian Tracy‟s “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success” and Blaine McCormick‟s “Ben Franklin‟s 12

Rules of Management”.

Take a daily dip.


leadership articles

newsletter book excerpts.

Site Home Address: http://www.leadershipnow.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.leadershipnow.com/




46. Leadership Tools

A Free Thank you

Here‟s something free that nobody else offers! An ecard message

service for team members who‟ve done a good job or who need

cheering up on a tough assignment.

This site gives you 20 e-cards to choose from. There‟s one on

Achievement, Integrity, Great Job, down to Well Done. All you have to do is jot down who you want to send the card to with

your message, and bingo! off goes the card.

It might be a bit cheesy for some, but there‟s no excuse any

more for not letting your people know how much you appreciate

them!

Make sure you check out all the other free items on this site,

such as a free copy of Oliver Swett Marden‟s success book, “Pushing To The Front”, interviews with top leaders, e-zine, and a

range of leadership tools.


success e-book tools for leaders, eg business planning toolkit

coaching course

articles and quotes teambuilding exercises

ecards.

Site Home Address:

http://www.leadership-tools.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.leadership-tools.com/




47. Leader-Values

Valuing Leadership

This is a very useful site. It‟s been put together

by Mick Yates and is built around the idea of 4

E‟s of leadership: Envision, Enable, Empower, and Energize.

You can watch various slide shows explaining this framework and learn how they apply to 5 leaders of the 20th century, including

Gandhi and Pope John XXIII.

On top of all this, there are 300 themed articles on leadership,

350 links, 200 magazine features, 400 book references, and 500

quotations.

Now that should keep you quiet for a few days!


slide shows leadership self-assessment

leadership articles

quotations book references.

Site Home Address: http://www.leader-values.com



http://www.leader-values.com/




48. Leading Today

Web Enhanced Leadership Education

and Development

This is a wonderful online magazine

resource for leaders and managers that, with regular visits, will change the way you manage and lead for good.

It‟s run by Greg L. Thomas as a non-profit organisation dedicated to the understanding and education of organisational and

personal leadership.

At the heart of Leading Today are a set of archives that cover 10

years from 2001 to 2010. Browsing back through the early years,

I found a Powerpoint show on Colin Powell‟s “Leadership Primer”; a wide range of original articles, including one called “What Is the

Right Way to Peel a Banana?”; interviews with successful

leaders; and excellent book reviews.

I can‟t speak too highly of this site. Maybe it‟s because it‟s a non-

profit organisation, but I sense a real joy in sharing information on Greg‟s part. To show you what I mean, there‟s even a section

on Classical Historical Writings and Speeches, seen from a

leadership perspective. They range from “Politics” by Aristotle, to “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, to the inaugural addresses of

American presidents.


10 years of archived articles, reviews, interviews

Full sets of classical writings MP3 recordings on leadership tips

Leadership terms.

Site Home Address:

http://www.leadingtoday.org

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.leadingtoday.org/




49. Lessons in Lifemanship

A Course in Lifemanship

This is an interesting site in which Bryan Bell

attempts to explore what the meaning of

lifemanship is.

Bryan says that Lifemanship is like seamanship. Just as

seamanship is defined as the ability to navigate the seas, so lifemanship is about navigating human relationships. It‟s about

getting the skills that strengthen our relationships, making them

more enjoyable for us and avoiding the self-defeating actions which make life a struggle.

The course is split into 7 parts, including: How to improve relationships; how to get a job; how to find potential employees;

and how to share success and motivation.

It‟s like a compass to sail the seas of life (groan!).


online course.

Site Home Address:

http://www.bbll.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.bbll.com/




50. Management Help

Free Management Library

I first came across this website some years ago

when there was little else on management

development on the web. I was astounded then and still am now. It‟s an amazing resource, the

work of one man, Carter McNamara.

Carter calls the site a “complete, highly integrated library of

management material”. And it‟s hard to argue with that.

There doesn‟t appear to be anything left out. It covers everything

in business from A, Advertising and Promotion, to Z, well V,

Volunteers. (By the way, it has a bias towards non-profit organisations.)

Let‟s see what happens when you explore one topic, say Group Skills. You start with an introduction and a set of links to outside

sites. Then you move through Icebreakers and Group Matters, to

General Resources and Related Library Links. And of course when you go elsewhere you have other links to explore.

It‟s a real web of information, a true management help.

Summary of Free Resources: encyclopaedia of management.

Site Home Address: http://www.managementhelp.org

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.managementhelp.org/




51. Manager Wise

To Work is Human, To Manage Divine

This is nothing short of a management supersite.

Where to begin? Well, there‟s a massive collection of articles in the Knowledge Bank, neatly categorised into sections such as

Coaching, Culture, Innovation, Motivation and so on. The one I

checked on Motivation has some really well-chosen subjects, such as “Climbing the Mountain on your Terms” and “Feedback is

the Breakfast of Champions”.

Then there‟s an A to Z glossary of management terms. For

devilment, I selected “Q” and got “Quick Ratio” and “Quality of

Work”.

There are also links to universities, business schools,

management publications, portals, and employment law sites around the world.

As a bonus, you can buy the T-shirt with that slogan on (“To Work Is Human, To Manage Divine”) and hand it out to your

delegates on your next training course.


massive collection of management articles glossary of management terms.

Site Home Address: http://www.managerwise.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.managerwise.com/




52. ManageTrainLearn

Free Software Downloads

I hope you‟ll forgive this

bit of self-indulgence since this is our site.

ManageTrainLearn (MTL) focuses on the 20 skills that you need

for professional and personal success in the 21st century. They

range from Appraisal and Assertiveness to Teambuilding, Thinking Skills, Time Management and Training Skills.

To help you and your organisation learn these skills, MTL provides a range of online products, including E-learning courses,

Step-by-Step pocketbook guides. Manuals for Trainers, 1-day

Course Plans, and a library of free e-books.

You can download free evaluation versions of all these products

from the site and enjoy them without limit at your leisure.

Summary of Free Resources: Free daily management tips, e-courses, and e-books, plus

samplers of all MTL training products

prize quiz newsletter

articles on management and development.

Site Home Address:

http://www.managetrainlearn.com

Email Address:

[email protected]






53. Marshall House

Your Free Daily Affirmation

This site is run by Jeanie Marshall and

each month of the year she offers a theme which is then

translated into a daily affirmation. For example, in the week I checked it out, the theme was Balance, and the affirmation for

the day was “I act with purposeful awareness of equanimity and

balance.”

It‟s a nice way to do some useful self-improvement each day

and, the best bit is, it‟s free.

Other resources on this site include Jeanie‟s guided meditation

tapes. When I looked, the two available were: A Meditation for Centering which lasted 12 minutes and Your Source of

Abundance which lasted 27 minutes.

Peace and prosperity be with you!


daily affirmation

3-monthly e-zines online guided meditations.

Site Home Address: http://www.mhmail.com



http://www.mhmail.com/




54. Mind Power System

Free Relaxation Programme

This is one of the websites of Jose Silva,

founder of the Mind Power System. If

you‟re interested in getting more out of your subconscious mind and reaching a

truly relaxed creative state of awareness,

this is the site to come to.

The free part of the programme is a 9-part email course which is

the result of Jose Silva‟s 25-year research into how human beings can reach their full potential. You‟ll learn how to reach

deep levels of meditation like a Buddhist monk, pull creative

ideas out of thin air, and accelerate your own healing.

Plus, you get a free 30-minute mp3 audio programme called

“How To Reach The Alpha Level”. This programme shows you how to reach the alpha level of relaxation, an optimal state of

being in which your right and left brains are working together

and you are in a state of total, creative and deep relaxation.

Go on, open up your mind, and discover possibilities you never

imagined!

Summary of Free Resources: mp3 relaxation programme

email course.

Site Home Address:

http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/




55. Mind Tools

Online management and leadership training,

instantly available

Each year, MindTools.com helps more than

10,000,000 visitors learn the essential skills they need for an excellent career.

Here you can learn hundreds of essential management skills, free of charge, and

develop yourself on an ongoing basis with the Mind Tools‟ popular e-newsletter.

One recent addition to MindTools are 2 self-assessment

questionnaires on “How Good are Your Management Skills?” and “How Good are Your Leadership Skills?”. Each has a set of

questions that cover all the key skills in both functions. When

you‟ve finished, you review what your score means and get pointers in how to develop yourself further.

Another new addition is a poll of the top 20 articles as voted by

readers. Currently top is “How Good is Your Time Management?”

There is also a members‟ area, called Career Excellence Club, for access to all the materials, interviews with experts, and a forum.

Summary of Free Resources: free skills-builders

Over 450 articles with a top 20 list of the best

Self-assessment questionnaires 140 articles downloadable as an e-book

personal development plan workbook.

Site Home Address:

http://www.mindtools.com/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.mindtools.com/




56. MIT OpenCourseware

Sloan School of Management

When it first announced that it was opening up all its course

material free to the world, the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology made newspaper headlines. Now a few years on, here are the results: MIT Opencourseware.

This is how it works. There are some 34 departments ranging from Aeronautics to Writing Studies. The most relevant to anyone

interested in business is the Sloan School of Management with

over 100 programmes.

Programmes are courses run in any particular semester. Let‟s

take as an example “Practical Leadership”. What you‟ll get on this course is a syllabus, calendar, reading references, lecture notes

and assignments, both in pdf. What you don‟t get, obviously, is

the actual lessons.

It‟s up to you how you might use this information. You could be a

trainer and use the plan as a structure for your own courses. Or you could use the references as the basis for your own self-paced

learning. It‟s up to you.

Other programmes of interest to managers are: Advanced

Managerial Communication; Listening to the Customer;

Negotiations and Conflict Resolution; and Communications for Management. Now you can turn yourself into a MIT graduate!


online courses

trainer‟s resources.

Site Home Address:

http://www.ocw.mit.edu

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.ocw.mit.edu/




57. mp3motivators

Free mp3 programme

This site supplies the top audio programmes

from the world‟s best personal development

speakers.

The free gift offered on the site comes when

you recommend the site to a friend. When I did this, the free mp3 I got was Bob Proctor and Jim Rohn talking about Goal-

setting. It lasts all of 25.45 minutes and can be played straight

from your PC or an mp3 player.

Considering what you‟d pay to hear either of these two speakers

in person, that‟s not a bad deal!


motivational mp3s free copy of As A Man Thinketh by James Allen.

Site Home Address:

http://www.mp3motivators.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.mp3motivators.com/




58. National School Board Association

Professional and Leadership Development

This site contains a useful professional and

leadership programme.

Although it‟s aimed at school governing bodies, the lessons have

universal appeal to managers and leaders in any organisation.

There‟s good stuff on the qualities that make up a leader, the

different ways to communicate, and quite a big section on

dealing with conflict.

Maybe they have something in mind?


leadership course.

Site Home Address:

http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/PandLDev.html

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/PandLDev.html

http://www.nsba.org/

http://www.nsba.org/




59. Negotiation

Enterprises

Empowerment Through

Negotiation

Here‟s a tricky negotiation skills test called “So You Think You

Know How To Negotiate?”

There are just 7 questions and you‟re given 5 minutes to

complete them. All the questions are case studies.

The first case is as follows: “A client walks into your office and is

exceedingly angry and difficult to talk to. How do you approach your client so as to make your meeting as productive as

possible?”

You have 5 possible options for each answer.

After submitting your answers, you get the correct versions and a rationale, which is quite instructive.

Summary of Free Resources: negotiating skills test.

Site Home Address: http://www.sabonline.com



http://www.sabonline.com/




60. Negotiator

Magazine

The Most Comprehensive Resource On Negotiating Today

This is probably the biggest database of negotiating material on

the web. It‟s absolutely massive. And it‟s all the work of one man, John Baker.

John has compiled everything to do with negotiations ranging from Crisis Negotiation to Gender Negotiation to Salary

Negotiation and Travel Negotiation. There‟s no fee so it‟s a

resource you can wander around at will.

One feature that took my eye was a page on Outstanding

Negotiations in which readers are asked to submit their nominations for the best negotiating performance ever carried

out. Two entries are currently topping the list. The first was what

John calls the King Solomon Maternal Claims Dispute, in which King Solomon had to choose between two women who claimed to

be the mother of a baby boy. The second is the Louisiana

Purchase by James Monroe and Robert Livingston in 1803, in which these two men doubled the size of the USA overnight for

the price of $15 million.

Cheap at twice the price!


huge database of negotiating material.

Site Home Address:

http://www.negotiatormagazine.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.negotiatormagazine.com/




61. New Conversations

The Seven Challenges

This is Dennis Rivers‟ site which he

calls a cooperative communication

skills community. He offers a range of free ebooks, articles and exercises to help visitors communicate more creatively,

successfully, and compassionately; to encourage dialogue and

resolve conflict; and to build a more co-operative life at home and work.

There are 5 free e-books including:

The Seven Challenges written by Dennis himself. It goes into

subjects such as Listening; Expressing yourself clearly; and Focusing on learning.

Compassionate Listening by Gene Knudsen Hoffman, which explores how to transform conflict

Human Becoming, an anthology of works by David Richo on our journey toward becoming whole and human, (look out for his

excellent affirmations on overcoming fear)

The Geometry of Dialogue, again by Dennis, which uses

mandala-like flow charts to map and facilitate human interaction.


communication skills e-books a set of resources on forgiveness, including a bumper sticker.

Site Home Address:

http://www.newconversations.net



http://www.newconversations.net/




62. Office Diversions

The Productivity Reduction Discovery

Centre

Don‟t tell your boss the subtitle for this site or he/she will

seriously think you‟re wasting your time here. However, if you do get caught, then just quote the subtitle on the home page, which

says: “Important survey reveals long-term medical importance of

active on-the-job stress reduction”.

Because that‟s what this site will do for you: reduce your stress

and give your fun hormones a real boost. There are tons of great material here: office jokes galore; lists of phobias; games of

concentration; world clockwatching; office pranks; timewasters;

2035 headlines (eg “Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in 7th largest country in the world, California”); brain

twisters, and jigsaw puzzles.

When a bit jaded, I‟ve often whiled away a half-hour doing a

jigsaw puzzle on this site and come back to my duties refreshed.

(Really!) Perhaps the first of the 10 Office Commandments on this site is reason enough to play around here from time to time:

“Thou shalt have no other life beside work”!

Oh, and in case your boss does catch you looking at this site,

there‟s a panic button called Yikes It‟s The Boss which will take

you to a page on… well find out for yourself!

Summary of Free Resources: jokes, games, pranks, puzzles on office working

forum

poll free office clipart.

Site Home Address: http://www.officediversions.com



http://www.officediversions.com/




63. Patricia Fripp

Confessions of an Unashamed Relentless Self-

Promoter

Patricia Fripp is an award-winning coach and

speaker, and by her own admission, an unashamed relentless self-promoter.

I don‟t mind that because I like her style and tone and enjoy what she offers.

For example, she has a huge list of articles covering the whole raft of management and personal development topics. For

example, in Presentation skills, she offers “Put Your Audience in

the Opening” (good advice); in Marketing Skills, she offers “Power Pitching”; and in Leadership, she offers “Make Your

Presentations Fun”.

But there‟s more free stuff on this site. There‟s a whole set of

videos taken from Patricia‟s presentations. Try “Life is a series of

Sales Situations” for starters. Or how about “The Story Behind Awesome Storytelling”. And what better than “Quantum Leap

Performance”?

You certainly get your money‟s worth here. After all, it‟s free!


management articles

ezines on public speaking and business videos of presentations.

Site Home Address:

http://www.fripp.com



http://www.fripp.com/




64. People Alchemy

Turning People into Gold Dust

The guys at People Alchemy

claim that, if you‟re a manager

who‟s stuck, overwhelmed, making mistakes, or under

pressure (OK, OK, who isn‟t?), then you don‟t need training. You

need answers.

And their answer is their online (and offline if you want) portal of

over 100 topics on management with lots of information on each.

It‟s a great resource and they offer a Free Trial for 15 days. This

enables you to access the full version and wander all over the place, using their search facility or just going where the mood

takes you.

Everything possible is included from 360 Degree Assessments to

Diversity, Empowerment to Violence and Aggression. Everything

I saw was superbly written and presented. A nice touch was also that you can bookmark pages and add your own notes.

Oh, and if this wasn‟t enough, the portal is offered free to charities, just because they want to!


Trial of a refreshingly different leadership manual

Site Home Address:

http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/




65. Penn State Psychology

What Do You See?

If you‟ve ever been on a personal

development programme, the chances

are you‟ve been shown an ambiguous picture showing 2 images which change

according to how you look at them. Some

trainers use the famous “old hag-young queen” image. Others use the Necker

cube. And others mix numbers and

letters as in the “Is it 13 or B?” picture.

This site has a huge number of links to different optical illusion

sites (though, being rather old, some of the links are now dead).

You‟ll find the 3 just mentioned plus other well-known ambiguous

illusions such as the Eskimo/Indian chief; the rabbit/duck; and the facing vases/faces.

They‟re fun to play with or just to work out for yourself. And you can use them in a wide range of change programmes as great

icebreakers, or quick power learning interludes.


optical illusions.

Site Home Address:

http://psych.la.psu.edu/clip/Perception.htm

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://psych.la.psu.edu/clip/Perception.htm




66. Personal

Development

Homespun Philosophy

If homespun philosophy is your thing (and I have to confess to a

certain weakness in this neck of the woods), then you‟ll love Chuck Gallozzi‟s articles and free e-book “Roadblocks to

Happiness” on this site.

There are nearly 250 articles to choose from, neatly arranged in

A to Z fashion according to personal development themes. So we

start with Abstinence, move on to Change and Complaints, steer right through Learning and Leaders, and end up with Wisdom

Words and Worry.

As an example of the folksy nature of these writings, here‟s the

subheading to the article on Wisdom: “Some folks are wise and

some otherwise”.

Aaah. Say goodnight, John-Boy!


articles and e-book free My Life Planner software.

Site Home Address: http://www.personal-development.com



http://www.personal-development.com/




67. Philip Humbert

Coaching to Achieve Your Goals and Live

Your Dreams

Dr Philip Humbert is my kind of guy. He‟s a

coach who says he‟s never worked in his life: what he does couldn‟t be described as

work in the conventional sense. He does things that bring him

joy and contribute value to others.

I suppose there‟s no better definition of a trainer or coach than

when he says: “I love to pass on what I‟ve learned and help others enjoy their own brand of success.”

Philip shares a lot of his philosophy and ideas on this website of his. The free goodies include 3 free e-books: Goal-Setting 101;

Personal Eco-Systems; and Making Money, Creating Wealth;

audio tapes and top 10 lists. One of the best features is Philip‟s newsletters and you can get copies for every month back to

2002.

Oh, and I also like Philip because the most important stuff on his

bio is his dog, Kodiak.


3 e-books Audio tapes

Hundreds of quips and quotes on personal development

Newsletter archive.

Site Home Address:

http://philiphumbert.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://philiphumbert.com/




68. Positive Club

Free Inspirational Books

If you‟re really interested in personal self-

improvement, then this site will shower you with great

motivational literature, including some classic self-improvement books.

You can get Napoleon Hill‟s “How to Overcome Failure and Achieve Success”, Kahlil Gibran‟s “The Prophet” and Wallace

Wattles‟ “The Science of Getting Rich”. And many more besides.

All free.

In addition, there‟s a lovely relaxing slideshow from Kahlil

Gibran, a really neat little positive boost trick that only a computer can deliver, Emile Coue‟s relaxation formula that‟s a

must whenever you‟re feeling down, a free 7 Eternal Laws CD,

and a massive dictionary of self-affirming quotations from Abundance through to Youth.

Now if none of these don‟t put you on cloud nine, there really isn‟t any hope for you!


self-improvement e-books

positive boost tests and quizzes

inspirational slide show from Kahlil Gibran

relaxation formula dictionary of self-affirming quotations.

Site Home Address:

http://www.positive-club.com



http://www.positive-club.com/




69. Presentation

Helper

Help For All Your Presentation Needs

I‟ve seen quite a few sites that teach

presentation skills but this is my favourite. Where to begin?

Well, first off, there‟s some great advice on how to deliver your

presentation, told in an easy-to-read, conversational style. Topics

include What to Wear and Dealing with Investors.

Then there‟s a range of free excellent Powerpoint templates

under different headings such as business, seasonal, and a template builder. There are also quick links to the free

Powerpoint viewer and trial version of the real thing.

Next, you‟ll find a collection of famous speeches and examples of

what to say on special occasions such as weddings, funerals and

retirements.

And lastly, a really interesting forum from which you can see

some of the presentations people have made such as “The Life of a Potato”, “Ancient Egyptian Mummification”, and “The Future of

the Pork Sausage Market”.


Slideshows

Advice from famous presenters Templates

Speeches

Sound clips.

Site Home Address:

http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/




70. Proven Models

Models on the Cat Walk

Although Provenmodels is primarily a

resource for researchers and students, it

can also be of value to those who want to develop their knowledge of management

ideas.

It comprises a collection of 64 models which can be accessed be

a search of the model name, the author name, or the topic.

Alternatively, you can browse the model book.

In the top ten of models are favourites like Maslow‟s Hierarchy of

Needs, Theory X and Y, and Fayol‟s 14 Principles of Management.

The models themselves are displayed graphically with details of

their characteristics, descriptions, pros and cons, and references. You can add your own comments.

Summary of Free Resources: Collection of management models

Site Home Address: http://www.provenmodels.com



http://www.provenmodels.com/




71. Robin Sharma

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

I don‟t believe that Robin Sharma is

for one second the monk who sold his Ferrari, but as the name of

his bestselling book, that‟s the person I‟ll always think he is.

Robin Sharma is the ex-lawyer turned motivational speaker who

has created a brand out of himself and uses this to promote a wide range of business and personal development material. You

can‟t help getting infected by Sharma‟s enthusiasm and success

aura. Everything he touches seems to turn to gold.

The chief free resource on this site is a collection of audio

podcasts. In all there are nearly 40 broadcasts in the archive, ranging from Lessons on Leadership from U2 to The Five Forms

of Wealth to Ambidextrous Leadership and Be A Renaissance

Person.

These will really motivate you as you walk or drive along.


free podcasts video segment on “The 8 Things that Billionaires Do”

video excerpt on “Lead Without a Title”

“Extraordinary Leadership” audio programme (60 minutes).

Site Home Address:

http://www.robinsharma.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.robinsharma.com/




72. Roger Dawson

You’ll Never Make Money Faster than When

You’re Negotiating

Roger Dawson was one of the first speakers

I ever heard on the subject of Negotiating Skills. He‟s practical, entertaining, and tells a

very good story.

This site will show you Roger in action both on audio and video.

Plus, you‟ll also get a set of 23 articles on power negotiating,

including: “Ask For More”, “Flinching”, and “Money is not as important as you think”.

Summary of Free Resources: audio and video excerpts

articles on negotiating.

Site Home Address:

http://www.rdawson.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.rdawson.com/




73. Ron

Kaufman

Uplifting the

Power of Service Worldwide

Ron Kaufman must surely be the most dynamic advocate of

customer service in the world. He has reached more than 3

million people with his high-energy and high-content presentations.

He has two websites: his own at ronkaufman and his customer service college at Up Your Service.

Both sites will give you access to some of Ron‟s excellent free material. There are great videos which will show you why Ron is

such a draw when presenting. There are audio presentations with

intriguing titles such as “How to make a wrong customer feel right”. There are 2 really creative Powerpoint slideshows called

Service With a Smile and Up the Loyalty Ladder which you can

download. And, as if this wasn‟t enough, a free Customer Service Training Library.


Videos and audios on customer service

Slideshows Articles and tips

Site Home Address: http://www.ronkaufman.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.ronkaufman.com/




74. Salad Ltd

Do What You Love

Salad is a UK training company specialising in

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

It‟s run by Jamie Smart who is the author of

most of the articles in the tips archive. There are

over 80 articles here and they are really one of the best introductions I‟ve come across to NLP.

They‟ll enhance your communications and make

you a stronger influencer.

To get a feel for some of the tips, here are some

titles: “Put some fizz in your physiology” (about the state of your body and the state of your

mind); “Wave goodbye to hesitation”; and

“Power chunking”.

Signing up to Jamie‟s tips means you get a

whole host of NLP-related resources free.

Summary of Free Resources: articles on NLP

free NLP videos

hypnotic language course irresistible influence language course and ebook

free 1 year hypnosis course and ebook.

Site Home Address:

http://www.saladltd.co.uk

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.saladltd.co.uk/




75. Silicon Beach Training

Training that Makes a Difference

Silicon Beach Training are a Brighton (UK)-based company that provide both online and

offline training. They care about effective

training and that means listening to their clients and course participants.

What makes them really outstanding, though,

is the range and depth of free resources on

their site.

To start off, they offer 13 courses that can be accessed from

their website pages. These range from PRINCE2 to Six Sigma,

Photoshop, and Social Media; as well as more familiar management courses.

On each of the topics in their courses, you can follow up on tags (to see related items), share the topic on your social sites, or

submit a comment of your own.

Because they are also promoting their own offline courses, they

also run a monthly prize competition with the winners receiving a

free course.

Summary of Free Resources: Free courses from their website

Free monthly competition.

Site Home Address:

http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/




76. Skills Converged

Training Material on Productivity, Soft Skills and Personal Development

Skills Converged is a great little training shop which provides off-

the-shelf content for trainers. These include trainer‟s notes,

workbooks, exercises, slides, all of which can be customised to

suit your own particular training needs.

What makes this more than a training shop, however, is the wealth of free material on offer. These range from energisers and

icebreakers to exercises and teambuilders. You get all the

instructions along with the item which are usually well-illustrated.

A great giveaway for training and learning.


Free training resources on exercises, games, and role plays

Icebreakers Quiz

Teambuilding games

Free download pack with guidelines and useful materials for running courses.

Site Home Address:

http://www.skillsconverged.com/Home/tabid/229/Default.aspx

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.skillsconverged.com/Home/tabid/229/Default.aspx




77. Stressbusting

Wellbeing Solutions for Your Workplace

This site has got everything you need to relieve you of stress. You can hunt for

stressbusting ideas either via 12 zones like

Workplace Stress and Money and Debt; or via the type of remedy eg a link to another area or product.

There are really interesting articles. I liked in particular the idea

of “Firebreaks” around your busy day, from Dr Roger Henderson.

Then there is the Stressbusting channel with a variety of short programmes on relaxation, meditation, and stretching.

Therapies cover 13 remedies from Yoga to Colour Therapy to Shiatsu. And the Directory offers a good set of links to more

specialised areas.

The one irresistible feature is the Stress Test which will let you

know how vulnerable to stress you are.

Send me to the relaxation couch now.


Articles, advice and tests on stress busting.

Site Home Address:

http://www.stressbusting.co.uk

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.stressbusting.co.uk/




78. Success.bz

Your Path to Success

If success is important to you in life, (and who doesn‟t have some kind of desire for their

own success?), then this is the place for you. The focus on this

entire site is success; in fact, developer Robert Stuberg‟s mission can be summed up in this simple statement:”our goal is to help

you experience more success!”

You‟ll find products from the well-established success authors

here such as Jim Rohn and Wayne Dyer. Plus audio programmes,

coaching courses, software and videos.

But what about the free resources? Well, these are pretty

amazing. For a start you can download a free CD and MP3 of “The Secret”. Then there‟s an amazing article directory, to which

you can add your own items. Plus a demo of a Life Organizer that

plans your personal success. And email tips, quotes, and powerwords. Oh, and I forgot, there‟s a great selection of e-cards

that you can send to your contacts too.

Success guaranteed, I think.

Summary of Free Resources: Free CD and MP3 on Robert Stuberg‟s “The Secret”

Free coaching session

Free newsletters, quotes, Massive personal success article directory

Free tour and demo of “Life Organizer”

E-cards to send to your contacts.

Site Home Address:

http://www.success.bz/



http://www.success.bz/




79. Self Growth

The Online Self-improvement

Encyclopaedia

Selfgrowth is reputedly one of the largest

self-improvement sites on the Internet. It

is a resource, a community, and a place to learn.

The site has 6 areas: Success Skills; Love and Relationships;

Health and Fitness; Money and Careers; Mental Health;

Spirituality; and Lifestyle. You can access experts in each of

these areas; sets of articles; events; blogs; newsletters; and products.

Once you‟ve registered, you can develop your own member pages and connect to others through chat, instant messaging,

and discussion boards. As an encouragement to participate,

members can earn user points for all their activity on the site, including adding an expert page (100 points), adding an article

(50), or simply daily logging in (5). As a reward for gathering

points, you can be featured on the site and offered prizes.

It‟s a very well-managed resource and the links alone will set you

on a personal development adventure that may take you anywhere.

Summary of Free Resources: A choice of 13 free newsletters

Links to online IQ and EQ tests Huge directory to specialist sites dealing with self growth

Access to experts.

Site Home Address:

http://www.selfgrowth.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.selfgrowth.com/




80. Test Café

Brain Tests

This is one of the best sites around for taking

tests. You can take them on your IQ, on your

career choices, on teamwork, on time management, on assertiveness, and on your

personality.

As an example, there‟s a free Brain test that has 32 questions

and will take you 12 minutes to complete.

Other free tests include…

How Smart Are You? How Smart Are Your Emotions?

Are You Left-Brained or Right-Brained?

Teamwork Are You A Leader?

Are You Organised?

Are You Self-Confident? Half-Full or Half-Empty?

Are You Assertive?

Enneagram Test What Color Is Your Aura?

What Kind of Person Are You?

OK. Testing, testing.


tests and self-assessments.

Site Home Address:

http://www.testcafe.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.testcafe.com/




81. The Change Agent

Are You A Change Agent or A Change Victim?

Patti Hathaway is a consultant who specialises in

helping organisations manage change, or, in her

words, detect change. That‟s why she calls herself “the change agent” (get it?)

This site is a showcase for her very interesting articles on change, ranging from “Change Is A Many–Splintered Thing” to

“When You‟re At the End of Your Rope, Let Go”.

That‟s not all. You can also listen to Patti talking about some of

her work assignments and you can download one of the best pdf

brochures I‟ve ever seen, about Patti and her work. It‟s in the form of a spy file.

Summary of Free Resources: articles on change management

audio excerpts.

Site Home Address:

http://www.thechangeagent.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.thechangeagent.com/




82. The Leadership Hub

The World’s Online Leadership

Community

The Leadership Hub is claimed to be the world‟s first online

collaborative leadership development community. Think MySpace

or Facebook for Leaders and you‟re in the right kind of territory – a leadership collaboration and development site that uses social

networking principles and tools.

The site is based on Web 2.0 tools with members writing their

own leadership diaries, blogs, messaging each other, emailing

within the platform, uploading their own video clips, documents and other useful tools to share with the rest of the community.

This means that leadership experts and practitioners from all

over the world can collaborate with each other.

Some of the groups on the site include: Professional Voice, Be

Inspired, Be Entertained, and one I particularly like, Disney Leadership, which aims to inspire people with Walt Disney‟s

leadership style and show them how to be a “connoisseur of

talent”.

Move over Mickey!


60-second leadership book extracts Blogs, videos, documents on leadership

Site Home Address: http://www.theleadershiphub.com/



http://www.theleadershiphub.com/




83. The Improvement

Encyclopedia

Brief Descriptions of Quality Terms and Tools

Here is another one of learning junkie David

Straker‟s sites, a companion to changingminds, creatingminds,

and qualitytools (which you‟ll find elsewhere in this book).

This one is “a long list of around 400 items, each with a page

containing descriptions of tools and terms about improvement and quality, ranging from original Japanese terminology to Six

Sigma frameworks.”

So, you can start with the “A-O Diagram” and journey through

“Bell Curve”, “Chumbo Chart”, and “Fault Tree Analysis” and, if

this is your sort of thing, end up with “Z-Chart” and “Zenbara”.

Hats off to David for another amazing encyclopaedic resource.


articles on quality and improvement.

Site Home Address:

http://www.syque.com/improvement/a_encyclopedia.htm

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.syque.com/improvement/a_encyclopedia.htm




84. The Logic

of Success

Motivation with

Intelligent Content

This is Victor Gonzalez‟s site. Victor is an American motivational

speaker who is very entertaining. (You can see him in action on

this site in 4 video excerpts.)

What makes the site worth a visit is the special collection of

articles on success. There are 62 of them and they‟re all written the way Victor speaks: highly personal, conversational, direct,

and instructive.

They range from “My First Trophy”, a bitter-sweet story of how

nobody sees you when you really succeed; through “The Winning

Mindset of a True Leader”, which is summed up as: “never try to win”; and ends with “The 10 Steps to Overcoming Public Enemy

No 1: Fear”.

Read and be entertained!


video excerpts

articles, newsletter, and free e-book on success.

Site Home Address:

http://www.thelogicofsuccess.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.thelogicofsuccess.com/




85. The Manager

The Knowledge Intermediary

“The Manager” is a massive

resource focusing on management

issues. Warning: only attempt if you‟ve got an hour or two to spare as you‟ll almost certainly get absorbed in its fascinating

meanderings.

For a start, it has a wonderful glossary, sending you off in all

sorts of explorations. There are Finance, Marketing, HR, and

other categories that will shoot you off to even more resources elsewhere on the Net. Which makes this section alone a great

research tool.

Then there are links to Publications, a Knowledgebase, and a

Daily Knowledge Special.

In fact, if you ever need to look something up about

management, this is as good a place to start as you‟ll find.


glossary of management terms articles galore on management.

Site Home Address: http://www.themanager.org



http://www.themanager.org/




86. The Workplace

Doctors

Dear Doc…

This is an off-beat work-related website

run by William Gorden, Dan West, and Tina Rowe.

The main part of the site is a Question and Answer section in the style of an Agony Aunt column which responds to all sorts of

workplace issues.

Here you‟ll find answers to questions that really bother people at

work, such as “Help! I Can‟t Spel”, “How Can I Combat

Tardiness?” and “I Work With A Jerk!”.

In addition, there‟s a very amusing section that includes: some of

the crazy things managers say, in “Management Without Logic”; Lists to Hang Up at work; and a comparison between work and

prison.

Hint: prison wins out!


workplace question and answer

amusing things that managers say.

Site Home Address:

http://www.workplacedoctors.com/

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.workplacedoctors.com/




87. Thiagi

Improving Performance Playfully

This is the site of Sivasailam

Thiagarajan (or Thiagi, for short).

Thiagi was born in Madras (now Chennai) and became an

instructional leader devoted to making learning fun.

And there‟s a lot of free fun training on the site, including…

104 training games from “$20” to “Zoom” 36 interactive lecture styles

webshell games like Hangman, Project Life Cycle, and Tic Tac

(Noughts and Crosses) “About the World” a glossary of 66 strategies for improving performance

interactive puzzles, eg on facilitator characteristics, TV game

shows, and e-learning, to name just a few. trivia puzzles

email games.

Just go and play!


games, quizzes, puzzles and guides

training resources.

Site Home Address:

http://www.thiagi.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.thiagi.com/




88. Thinking

Managers

Expand Your Thoughts

The two Thinking Managers who edit this site are Robert Heller

and Edward de Bono, both outstanding writers, consultants and thinkers in their own right. Heller is the founder of the magazine,

Management Today and de Bono is one of the world‟s leading

authorities on creative thinking.

As you would expect from two such luminaries, there is a wealth

of material on this site, much of it available in the Letter to Thinking Managers newsletter which is free for the first two

months. There is also a huge library of management material.

Unusual and original features of the site are various newsfeeds

on management topics. These include a Guru Watch which

follows the latest work on over 70 of the world‟s top management gurus; a Media Watch which summarises the

headlines of the world‟s top business publications; and an update on the world‟s top companies.

Finally, there is a Resources section linking to a big database of other sites and companies.

Summary of Free Resources: Management library

Blog watch

Media watch Links library.

Site Home Address:

http://www.thinkingmangers.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.thinkingmangers.com/




89. Tickled By Life

Productivity and Life Enhancement

Does life excite you? Are you blown away by the newness of every moment? Do

you tap your creativity to the full? Are

you passionate about your goals? Does playfulness come naturally to you?

In short, are you tickled by life?

Tickledbylife.com will surprise you, provoke you, inspire you and

wow you with a host of free articles, stories, anecdotes, puzzles, jokes, discussions, interviews, games, comments and much

more.

The objective of this site is to enable you to live your life

creatively and joyfully in your own way so that you can

experience goose bumps of success in all areas of your life.

Cor, wish I‟d had an intro like that!


Terrific collection of “Tickles” (thought-provoking articles) Poll of the week.

Site Home Address: http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/



http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/




90. Tom Antion

Wake ‘Em Up Business Presentations.

Tom Antion is a business speaker who also

runs a range of seminars on other topics.

On his site you‟ll find a great free ebook on

how to keep your audience awake and

captivated by your business presentations. It‟s huge, 336 pages long, and has some

very interesting ideas and techniques.

Tom‟s title for the e-book is: “Wake „Em Up!” and the subtitle is

“Your A to Y Guide (No ZZZZZs Allowed) to more interesting, fun

and memorable programs”. It‟s printable online reading but if you want to buy the book you can.

If you want to inject more pizzazz into your presentations, try it.

Oh, and don‟t you think that book cover is kinda snazzy?


ebook on presentations free articles on presentations.

Site Home Address: http://www.antion.com/products/freebook.htm



http://www.antion.com/products/freebook.htm




91. Tom Peters

When Exactly Will You Go For Wow?

This is the site of the guru‟s guru,

Tom Peters. Peters is a legend in his

own lifetime. He is far more than a motivational speaker, he shakes up

enterprises to re-think what they do.

Years ago, when I was just a humble HR manager, I dreamed of attending one of Peters‟ seminars – a mix of Deming and

Robbins, I used to think. The thing that stopped me going then

was that Peters‟ seminars were invariably sold out and I could never make out a good enough business case to justify the cost.

But now of course the cost doesn‟t come into it. For here on

Peters‟ site, I can get the next best thing to attending one of his seminars: all the powerpoint slides for free. There are heaps of

stuff here, from seminars in the States, Brazil, the Middle East,

Spain, Romania, and more. Plus, slides and pdfs on Peters‟ thoughts. You can discover what the great man thinks about

interviewing excellence, or transformational change, or

innovation, or the nub of leadership, or dozens more.

Tom implores us to use these resources. “Take them. Use them.

Send them to friends. Spread them around. Have your way with them. Please!”

As if he had to ask! Summary of Free Resources: powerpoint slides of Tom Peters‟ seminars

master and special slides

newsletter and daily quote pdf files covering thoughts and tips.

Site Home Address: http://www.tompeters.com



http://www.tompeters.com/




92. Trainerbubble

Affordable Training Solutions

Trainerbubble sells a range of products for trainers, including

Business Development, Communication, Customer Care, and

Health and Safety. They also provide consultancy and bespoke services.

The site and company is the creation of Andrew Wood whose aim was to develop a website where trainers, leaders and anyone

involved in the development of others could access a set of

simple to use trainers notes that are highly interactive, simple to follow and easy to access, whilst remaining affordable.

As well as this service, Trainerbubble provides a huge list of free samples that are ideal for anyone running courses, seminars and

workshops. Plus, if you are a UK charity, you qualify for a free

training pack.

A great training resource.


Samples of training materials, eg “Leading Effective Teams” and “The Art of Negotiation”

Free energisers, such as “Aeroplanes” and “Ha Ha”

Exit interview questionnaire Meeting planner

Powerpoint games

Quizzes and fun Teambuilding games

Training Models

Training documents Icebreaker, Metaphors, Lateral thinkers.

Site Home Address: http://www.trainerbubble.com/default.aspx



http://www.trainerbubble.com/default.aspx




93. Trans4Mind

Tools for Transformation

This link will take you to a

wealth of free goodies from Peter Shepherd‟s Trans4mind

website.

For starters, there‟s a 30-lesson course called “The Positive

Approach” which is intended to help you become clearer about your own identity, what you want in life and how to consciously

transform your life for the better.

Then you can download a 242-page pdf book called

“Transforming the Mind” and take a range of personality tests

covering extroversion/introversion, stable/unstable, and assertive/unassertive preferences. Plus, you can also download a

107-page pdf book called “The Whole Person Handbook” which

uses a questionnaire to lead you through your key development issues.

And, if that‟s not enough, there are 3 more free courses on Communications, Heart Intelligence, and Nutrition. And that just

scratches the surface.

Phew!


E-book

courses on self-development free coaching

free copy of “Transforming the Mind”

free copy of “The Whole Person Handbook”.

Site Home Address:

http://www.trans4mind.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.trans4mind.com/




94. Value-Based Management

Management Methods

There‟s no room for pretty designs or graphics on this site. You

get what‟s on offer thrown straight in your face.

In fact, it‟s an amazing management portal linking to over 250

management methods and theories in areas like: strategy and

value creation, valuation and decision making, organization, change and culture, communication and marketing, and

leadership and management.

In just a few minutes, I could jump from “Game Theory” to “Six

Thinking Hats” to “Emotional Intelligence” to Covey‟s “Seven

Habits” theory. It‟s like an internet inside an internet.

Nearly every concept on management must be here, and most

importantly... it's all completely free!

Summary of Free Resources: portal for management articles and ideas

free magazines

hall of fame.

Site Home Address:

http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/




95. Vark Learning

Styles

Discover Your Learning

Style

VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinaesthetic, which are the 4 main learning styles (though check out

Accelerated Learning who expand this to 8 multiple intelligence

learning styles).

This site from New Zealander, Neil Fleming, has a questionnaire

of 13 typical learning situations that will tell you what your preferred learning style is.

Here‟s one of the situations: “You have a problem with your knee. How would you like the doctor to explain what‟s wrong?

Would you prefer him to show you on a model; tell you; or

explain on a diagram?”

Once you‟ve answered all the case studies, you‟ll get a page that

explains your learning style.

Summary of Free Resources: learning style questionnaire

helpsheets on the styles

books and software.

Site Home Address:

http://www.vark-learn.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.vark-learn.com/




96. Wilderdom

Gear for Adventurous Learning

This wonderful site is James Neil‟s collection of

classic and novel group games, activities and

exercises. They can be used, or adapted, for any experiential learning course, whether you‟re working with

colleges, corporate managers, or the local scout troop.

I could happily spend hours on this site. For example, there are

all the classic teambuilding games such as Lost At Sea, Survival

On The Moon, and Nuclear Holocaust, any of which could easily account for half a day‟s training. Then there are some of my

favourite icebreakers such as Cheeky Cheeky and Zoom. And

trust activities such as Sherpa Walk and Human Ladder. If you really want to push the boat out, you could even try out some

indigenous games such as the String games of the Navajo and

traditional Hopi games.

For me, this is a treasure trove of training and if there were such

a thing, I‟d award James Neil the Nobel Prize for Experiential Learning!


13 categories of group games

massive store for all things training trainer‟s resources.

Site Home Address: http://www.wilderdom.com/games

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.wilderdom.com/games




97. Workforce Online

Educating You About Your

Workforce

This is a huge resource and it‟s hard to know where to begin.

For a start you can get a free copy of the Workforce magazine

which covers current issues of interest to HR and general

management. Then there are all sorts of additional free features. When I last looked, there were articles, a news poll, a Dear

Workforce agony aunt, a forum, newsletter, topic channels, and

cartoons.

Registration gives you access to the full site and it‟s free so

there‟s no need to miss out on anything.


magazine articles

news poll cartoons

hot list of HR providers and vendors

free sample issue of “Workforce Benefits” forum.

Site Home Address: http://www.workforceonline.com



http://www.workforceonline.com/




98. Work Worries

Help With People Problems At Work

If you have problems at work and need help to

sort them out, then Work Worries is the place

to visit.

It‟s based on the idea that all workplace

problems are caused by people and that, if you‟ve had a problem, then so has someone

else who now has an answer.

There are over 1200 articles and resources to choose from with

headings like Bad Bosses, Bullying, and Office Politics. There‟s

also a discussion forum where you can let off steam.

The original feature that I like about this website is the Vault.

This isn‟t a place where you can drop difficult employees and let them rot but a place to deposit all the articles you like and come

back to in your own time.


links to articles and resources discussion forum

personal vault to collect and store your resources.

Site Home Address:

http://www.workworries.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.workworries.com/




99. Xage Consultancy

Your Very Own Online

Management Consultancy

Xage is a new site for me. It is an international Human Resource

Management Consultancy that helps organisations meet their HR

challenges by developing and implementing actionable solutions. It is run by Karen Davies and Gary Malcolm with, unusually, an

office based in Vietnam.

The free downloadable library on the site is the real draw. Here

you‟ll find a huge list of books under different categories such as

HRM, Recruitment, Performance Management, HR Planning, Job Analysis, Training and Development, Leadership and

Management, Assessment Centres, Policy and Procedures, and

Teambuilding. A large number of the books are MBA notes.

Titles include: The Definitive Book of Body Language, English

Brainstormers, Don‟t Guess Your Way to Success, and The Psychologist‟s Book of Personality Tests.

It‟s a true management library.


large collection of e-books

Site Home Address:

http://www.xageconsulting.com/



http://www.xageconsulting.com/




100. Zig Ziglar

It’s About Being Better

The reason I included Zig

Ziglar‟s website in this book isn‟t

because I liked the idea of an entry under “Z” but because I

liked the idea of how one man can turn himself into a brand.

Zig Ziglar is a motivational speaker and trainer, much like many

of the others in this book. What sets him apart from the rest is

that he knows how to stand out. You don‟t easily forget the name or the clever way in which he uses the name as a brand. For

example, his short training courses are called Ziggets, his forum

is called Ask Zig!!, and every day there is a new Zig Quote of the Day.

There are a few great free offerings to be found as well, including a self-talk card and a performance planner. But if you want to

find out how to turn yourself into a distinctive brand, and all

you‟ve got going for you is you, then you can‟t do much better than copy Zig.

A bit like Zigzagging all the way to success!

Summary of Free Resources: newsletter

self-talk card

performance planner free download of Zig‟s “Biscuits, Fleas and Pump Handles”

when you sign up for the newsletter..

Site Home Address:

http://www.zigziglar.com

Email Address:

[email protected]


http://www.zigziglar.com/




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