Brian Miller – författare

Most managers, supervisors, and team leaders realize the importance of team-building, but just can''t seem to find the time in their busy schedules. This book provides the solution!

More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers contains 50 all-new exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, and which require no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Each activity is presented in just a few short pages with all the relevant information including a list of materials needed, the purpose of the exercise, and handy tips for success, all highlighted for easy reference.

You will find fun and effective activities for:

The book also includes special guidance for "virtual teams," whose members are in different locations but must work as a unit. For anyone charged with the task of bringing teams together, More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers is the answer.

Eliminate the need for time or resources on formal training and get your teams up and running themselves--with only minutes of prep.

Between workplace personnel being more culturally diverse than ever before, a generation of employees being raised attached to technology while avoiding human interaction, and an increasing culture of competitiveness that is constantly raising tensions between cubicles, it has become absolutely essential for managers to focus more on camaraderie and building team spirit.

Now in its second edition, Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers addresses the problems that drag down group productivity and helps teams:

Each of the 50 team-building activities in this invaluable resource takes only minutes to prep and uses only everyday office items to get its point across. In just 15 minutes a day, the results will be immediate: sullen teams find sparkle, nervous teams gain confidence, teams of strangers get to know one another.

There are even activities to help the virtual team! No one will be left out, and all with leave the activity feeling better about their team and their individual role within it.

This useful resource gives time-pressed managers the proven, practical information they need to help their people accomplish more.

All managers want to hold their employees accountable for results, but few know how. Moving far beyond the typical annual performance review, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results provides simple ways to build teams by engaging participants in learning about themselves and their team players. 

The book gives busy managers quick, step-by-step advice on:

Light on theory and heavy on practical application, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results contains checklists, templates, techniques, and other tools to manage performance on an ongoing basis.

There''s more! You''ll learn how to integrate iCloud with Core Data based applications. Besides technical advice, you''ll find suggestions and best practices to design the interaction of iCloud-driven applications.

According to many industry sources, analysts, and shows, Apple will rely more and more on iCloud or web apps in the cloud to store and stream data-intensive media and other kinds of apps. As the majority of apps use some sort of data—and that only will grow as apps become more complex with rich and streaming media—this book shows developers how to create apps for iCloud, Apple''s new cloud computing storage and data service.

Mary hummed as she bustled about the kitchen. There is no one in the world like a young lady in love, and Mary was very much in love.

Marriages at that time were usually arranged between families. Yet Mary''s parents had told her they prayed for wisdom to choose a good husband for her.

When they told her about Joseph''s family and that both sets of parents believed he was the one for her, she was thrilled. Mary knew Joseph. He was a carpenter. He was a gentleman, worked hard, and loved the Lord. She could also tell he was interested in her.

Mary gathered the ingredients for a honey cake. Joseph would stop by later. Honey cake was his favorite. As Mary prepared, she thought about their many conversations.

After they became engaged, they talked about what it would be like when they married. These conversations were always fun. They talked often about having children. Mary thought about strong young boys doing carpentry like their father or girls cooking and making clothes.

As Mary prepared the honey cake and looked forward to married life, she suddenly felt uneasy. Someone else was in the room with her.

She turned to see a large, powerful-looking man standing in the middle of the kitchen. He wore a dazzling white garment. Mary instinctively backed away.

"Who are you?" she asked fearfully.

The man spoke:

Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. (Luke 1:28)

Who is this man? Mary thought. And what does he mean that I''m highly favored?

And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. (Luke 1:29)

The time of the first Christmas was one of mighty miracles in the lives of ordinary people. Stories of the First Christmas is a dramatization, based on Scripture, of that wonderful time.