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By Garry Platt (May 2008 Issue)
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http://www.managementhelp.org/

I sometimes come across websites when hunting for content to fill this monthly article that, when I find them, make me wonder why I haven’t located and used them before.
That is most certainly true of the Free Management Library website. In its own words: “The Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organisations.

Content is relevant to the vast majority of people, whether they are in large or small, for-profit or non-profit organizations. Over the past 10 years, the Library has grown to be one of the world’s largest well-organized collections of these types of resources.”

If you go the index link entitled ‘Free Management Library’, located just below the top banner (it doesn’t jump out at you), and left-click it, this will take you to the opening screen containing all the key areas the library covers. It is a significant range, covering everything from advertising and promotion all the way through to volunteers and how to organise and manage them. Somewhere in the middle is interviewing (all kinds).

Following these links will take you to another page, where all the articles and related websites which match against the topic you are these documents is as simple as just clicking on them: the information or referenced website then pops up.

You will occasionally find some of the links have expired or broken but this is generally the exception rather than the rule. You can approach the authors of all the material located at this site and ask permission to reproduce, but blanket ‘free copyright’ permission is not granted. Even so, as a rich source of ideas and suggestions to build into the design and content of your own programmes, it is hard to beat.

http://tinyurl.com/3yhssz

Want to make labels or cards to use in games and activities on training and development courses? I do this quite a lot and would buy a pack of Avery (or equivalent) labels and then struggle setting up my own page so that all my content sat neatly within a label’s margins and borders. Avery has produced a set of Word templates that takes away all the agony of this. By accessing this website, you can move to any number of blank templates which can be downloaded to your PC and used to help format and produce your materials. Magic, and a great time-saver!

http://www.alibris.co.uk/

Looking for an out-of-print book? This is the place to start – it is a kind of nexus of second-hand and used book dealers. A single search engine gives you access to hundreds
of booksellers both in this country and abroad, and their precise grading system for describing the condition of the publications. I have found it to be both consistent and fair.

Garry Platt is a senior consultant at Woodland Grange, specialising in management development and trainer training. He can be contacted on +44 (0) 1926 336621 or at garry.platt@wgrange.com

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