Process
Skills in Community Organizations
Process skills define: Understanding, developing, and internalizing
effective personal, group, and organizational behaviors.
For more than 30 years, Jerry W. Robinson, Jr., Ph.D., has used experiential learning methods to teach adults how to apply social and psychological theory to their personal lives and to the communities and organizations where they live and work.
Not only has his critically acclaimed program, Process Skills in Community Organizations, been tested with hundreds of users, but it has been adopted by
Now Professor Robinson is making this educational toolkit available on CDs so that you too can conduct workshops to help your staff and volunteers understand their behaviors and be more effective.
The toolkit cost thousands of dollars to develop, create, and perfect. Now, at a fraction of the cost, you too can lead/guide experiential learning opportunities that integrate theory with practice. This program uses proven materials that make teaching easier, and learning participatory, creative, and fun.
Jerry Robinson does it again! Don't miss this opportunity to take advantage of his Process Skills in Community Organizations educational toolkit. It has a:
CD for workshop leaders - It's state-of-the-art, practical, and flexible. Ten PowerPoint presentations with almost 1,000 visuals and illustrations are designed to communicate abstract concepts in terms anyone can understand.
CD for workshop participants - These PDF documents contain over 600 pages of text and 175 interactive learning activities focused on real-world issues and workplace problems. Learners use these activities to develop specific skills in a framework based on principles from educational psychology.
Process Skills are critical for people in a wide variety of work and volunteer settings, including:
Experiential learning is the backbone of Professor Robinson's program, no matter whether learners take advantage of interactive learning activities in workshop settings or during individual study. All ten learning modules have a common theoretical base, outline, and educational approach to help learners understand, practice, develop, and internalize behaviors that help them become more effective individuals.
Learning Module
1: Introduction to Process Skills in Community Groups
Presents the theoretical and operational framework for the entire program.
Learning Module 2: Organization Styles in Community Groups
Management and leadership philosophy is influenced by organizational culture.
Learning Module 3: Leadership Roles in Community Groups
Leadership is the behavioral process of influencing the activities of an individual or group to accomplish goals in a given situation.
Learning Module 4: Team Skills in Community Groups
A group can be a team or a collection of individuals with conflicting interests.
Learning Module 5: Conflict Management in Community Groups
Conflict is not always bad and cooperation is not always good!
Learning Module 6: Managing Change in Community Groups
Individuals and organizations anticipating change face complex problems.
Learning Module 7: Communication in Community Groups
While communicating facts can be quite simple, communicating feelings is more complex. Facts are often misinterpreted because feelings inhibit understanding.
Learning Module 8: Motivating Other to Achieve Objectives
Motivation is a key factor to organizational success.
Learning Module 9: Prejudice in Community Groups
Prejudice is a learned exclusion behavior.
Learning Module 10: Games in Community Groups
Oh, the games that people play!
Over 190,000
modules sold in various formats!
Read What Others Say:
Bo Beaulieu
President, Rural Sociological Society, 2002
The bottom line is that Jerry's publications have become required reading for any person who wishes to be trained in community development. They come as close to anything I can think of as the "bible" of Community Development work in the U.S.
Dean of Foreign
Services Institute
U.S. Department of State
Foreign service officers in U.S. embassies around the world stated that Professor Robinson's materials improved their ability to handle conflict. Without exception, every person has recommended it to their peers.
Anne Heinze Silvis
Extension Specialist, Program Development, Laboratory
for Community and Economic Development,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
With this new revision, Dr. Robinson continues to provide educational opportunities for diverse groups of adult learners. His goal is always to translate important social science research and theory for the use of lay people...He has perfected the train-the-trainer approach to help learners share information with others. He uses experiential learning methods that help people think about the applications of theory to their personal lives, to organizations, and to communities where they live and work...Jerry's work is known worldwide...because of the appreciation that practitioners and academics have for his work.
Arthur Crosby
Director, Social Science Research Center, and Professor
of Sociology, Mississippi State University
I know of no other scholar who has had such a wide and lasting impact on the practice and application of community development. His numerous books, manuals, and other publications populate the syllabi or practically every community development course conducted worldwide...He is respected for his ability to translate knowledge into practical programs that benefit communities and organizations.
John Van Es
Assistant Dean and Professor of Rural Sociology,
University of Illinois
Years after his departure from Illinois, the footprint of his efforts is still very visible...Many communities have successfully mobilized programs using Jerry's training materials...
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For more information, please call (662) 588-4359 or email to jrobins@deltastate.edu.
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