David Pollitt

Biography

Currently writer of Christian and secular Science Fiction with 17 books. With three-book Christian nonfiction series on the new covenant species. Additionally, writes educational training books for management and universities. Big sailboat buff spending spare time when not writing restoring old sail boats. Spends time doing editing projects for publishers and authors. Spent years as a finance and business professor. Works for the AT&T Corporation in Nashville, Tennessee and has for the last 15 years. His three newest writing projects are The Noah Clan: Dark Nephilim Seeds followed by Floaters, Black Ice, Musterion: The 13th Disciple, White Wings and The Merlin.

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Books

The Merlin
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,230. Language: English. Published: January 16, 2023 . Categories: Nonfiction » Literary criticism » Science Fiction & Fantasy
In the world of science fiction, the future is able to send back in time those to their young selves to change events that need to be changed: Saving Robert Kennedy's life, Bobby Kennedy's life, Martin Luther King's life, stop the Bay of Pigs and a nuclear disaster from an attack from Russia. Just those things and many more change and save the lives of millions. A 17-year-old teenager does it all.
Training Sales Professionals in Building Trust, Rapport, Better Listening Skills, Better Questioning Skills, and Building Value
Price: Free! Words: 12,670. Language: English. Published: August 30, 2019 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Starting up
This training manual trains sales professionals in the art of building trust, rapport, value, and better listening and questioning skills. It can be used in jigsaw learning techniques in collaborative learning teams or direct presentation. The original has PowerPoint presentations to go with it.
Module 6: Building Value for More Sales
Price: Free! Words: 2,440. Language: English. Published: August 4, 2019 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Sales
There is no better way to increase sales than through building loyalty. This is the six module of a group that is coming out prior to the others. Enjoy reading or use in collaborative learning teams using jigsaw learning methods.
Module 2: Building Trust to Increase Sales Two of Six Modules
Price: Free! Words: 2,340. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2019 . Categories: Essay » Business
MODULE 2 BUILDING TRUST TRUST: GOT TO HAVE IT There is nothing as great for customer interaction as the ability to build trust. Let’s face it. If a customer does not trust you, they will not be willing to buy today. If a customer does not trust you, they will not be willing to give you even a simple dollar. What they are saying to you is, “I don’t trust you.” This training can assist you in p
Module1: Overview of Educational Context Sales Training one of Six Modules
Price: Free! Words: 1,070. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2019 . Categories: Essay » Business
No training is complete without an understanding of learning concepts and practices of collaborative learning teams with jigsaw instructional practices. This Module 1 goes with each of the forthcoming modules as a standard introduction of each independently or as a inclusive training with all six modules.
Fundamentals of Teamwork with Leadership: Student Version
Price: Free! Words: 3,860. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2018 . Categories: Essay » Business
This training project is to assist employees in understanding the benefits of teamwork with leadership. It describes the best practices of working in a team as well as the leadership. The project uses collaborative and cooperative learning teams. The learning method describes how learning teams learn from professional and scholarly resources and materials.
Fundamentals of Teamwork with Leadership: Instructors Version
Price: Free! Words: 4,260. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2018 . Categories: Essay » Business
This training program is designed to assist and promote leadership in teamwork using practical guidelines promoted from the best experts in the field using professional articles, YouTube Videos, and scholarly textbooks. It promotes collaborative and cooperative learning in jigsaw learning format. This module is designed for an instructor to use learning teamwork methods and best practices.
White Wings
Price: Free! Words: 62,570. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
The Lord of Glory is all about strategic games in the affairs of man. He loves aggravating and playing games that mess with Apollyon. Now, the games begin. The Lord Jesus uses His announcements to predict the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. Jesus wants Apollyon to believe his time is over. He calls for an invasion of millions of angels to walk the streets of the United States.
A Better Education for HIgher Ed: Career Readiness and Leadership
Price: Free! Words: 1,730. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2018 . Categories: Essay » Business
What can higher education do when retention is falling for traditional and non-traditional student enrollment? What can they do when students are not ready for the workplace and don't even know what they want to do with their lives after college? How can a college plan for better student results while addressing more promising online formats to go with current classroom-only formats. How about bui
Fundamentals of Leadership Training: Student Version
Price: Free! Words: 7,460. Language: English. Published: July 22, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Leadership
This leadership series has been designed for classroom as well as online studies. The content contains detailed resources from professional articles and educational YouTube links. It covers the essence of what real leadership involves, emotional intelligence, transformative leadership, and servant leadership. The instructor's manual for this training is published separately.
Fundamentals of Leadership Training Program: Instructor's Manual
Price: Free! Words: 8,310. Language: English. Published: July 22, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Leadership
This leadership series has been designed for classroom as well as online studies. The content contains detailed resources from professional articles and educational YouTube links. It covers the essence of what real leadership involves, emotional intelligence, transformative leadership, and servant leadership. The student manual for this training is published separately.
Christian Leadership Training Program: Student Version
Price: Free! Words: 8,490. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Leadership
This student version accompanies the instructor's manual listed in the publication series. There is so much important for Christian leaders to understand the best practices of leadership. This training involves instruction in what leadership is as well as emotional intelligence, transformative leadership, situational leadership, servant leadership, and Christian-based leadership.
Christian Leadership Training Program: Instructor's Manual
Price: Free! Words: 9,710. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Leadership
There is so much need for Christian leadership, or shall we say leadership that is influenced and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This training was modified to reflect on the need to understand what authentic leadership is as well as the need for using emotional intelligence, transformative leadership, situational leadership, servant leadership, and Christian-based leadership.
Training Managers with Emotional Intelligence (Empathy and Self Awareness) in Online Format
Price: Free! Words: 5,790. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2017 . Categories: Essay » Business
This is a training program designed to train assistant managers of a large organization on the use of empathy and self awareness from the emotional intelligence viewpoint in working with employees they manage. It takes into account the use of differentiated instruction through the use of tiered pre-assessment groups and the use of choices to reflect the different ways to address the learning modal
Training on How to Work with Angry Customers: Conflict Resolution
Price: Free! Words: 1,880. Language: English. Published: February 5, 2017 . Categories: Essay » Business
What do you do when you have an angry customer? From this training module you will review an online course that covers two weeks and involves learning about body language, tone of voice, listening skills, and things to not do when dealing with confrontation. It is especially designed for those in a retail-store setting, but can be used in any organization. It is Part I in a new Leadership Series.
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Classrooms: Teacher Training
Price: Free! Words: 7,190. Language: English. Published: January 1, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Collaborative & team teaching
This training program is for teachers in the early childhood education field. It discusses the best practices of using play to help children reach their greatest learning development in the developmental domains: social-emotional; cognitive; language; and perceptual and fine-motor skills. I used collaborative learning teams and relied heavily on McTighe's backward design using his unit frameworks.
Musterion: The 13th Disciple
Price: Free! Words: 66,180. Language: English. Published: July 7, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
When a old soldier saves the President's life in a terrorist attack in the year 2090, he is rewarded with a time-travel trip of his choosing. He decides to go see Jesus. He teaches Jesus to say, Bro, Okey Dokey, and Bubba. Jesus asks him to go forward in time to save Stephen's life, and ask Paul to stop talking about going to see Caesar. He wants to both to live years longer. Surprise ending.
Teaching Teachers to Use Presence in Online Instruction
Price: Free! Words: 2,790. Language: English. Published: December 13, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Distance & online education
These are two modules for use of teachers to learn how to use "presence" in teaching online. It contains pre-and-post assessment Likerts with applicable Rubrics. It is also designed to teach teachers how to use collaborative learning teams with jigsaw learning techniques. This course was published on coursesites.com with its LMS software program. Videos are shown as placeholders only here.
The Good Shepherd Project
Price: Free! Words: 10,060. Language: English. Published: August 30, 2015 . Categories: Essay » Literature
This project was designed to enable The Good Shepherd College and Seminary to teach English Grammar to several Uganda refugee camps by using distance learning through the use of mobile phones and incorporating collaborative learning teams enhanced by jigsaw learning techniques.
Improving Customer Service Experience with Better Listening Skills (Instructional Design and Project Management Processes)
Price: Free! Words: 4,690. Language: English. Published: February 28, 2015 . Categories: Essay » Business, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Evaluation & assessment
Using instructional design (ID) and project management (PM) processes is a balance of ability that any organization would treasure. This project was designed to demonstrate how to improve customer service by training representatives in better listening skills. It lays out the process and the project leaving the individual content of article review materials open for input but ready upon request.
Reflections of Technology and Education
Price: Free! Words: 6,240. Language: English. Published: December 15, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Collaborative & team teaching
This was part of a blog designated by coursework but appropriate for publishing. The content is important to understand the details of how to apply technology to the educational realm. This technology covers presentations and organizational software, then describes the reality of digital natives versus digital immigrants, then finally digital dinosaurs. We all know who we are, don't we?
Project for the Tennessee Department of Education on the Graduate Technical Capstone Projects
Price: Free! Words: 4,010. Language: English. Published: December 6, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Technology
This small project was requested by the Department of Education of Tennessee in regards to addressing a better Capstone level learning projects for three of the major learning clusters of for graduation. It was intended to provide others with a look at David Pollitt's ability to write and discuss education for this technical side of the Department of Education.
Using Virtual Worlds for Educational Purposes-Feedback Article
Price: Free! Words: 2,030. Language: English. Published: November 30, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Technology
Is the use of virtual worlds in education an interest to you? You might want to read this short feedback on using virtual worlds from an instructional designers perspective. There are some pros and cons and this short article includes a peek at Second Life solutions.
How About Them Digital Apples: Gamification or Not
Price: Free! Words: 1,780. Language: English. Published: November 23, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Technology
Reviewing the educational gaming experience
Conflict Resolution Training for Elearning Using ADDIE Instructional Design Processes
Price: Free! Words: 10,800. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Distance & online education
This project is designed to use eLearning in collaborative teams using solid instructional ADDIE design theory to train retail sales reps how to deal with conflict resolution situations with empathy, positive body language, positive verbal communication, and better listening skills. It details the types of instruction, then goes into detail for pre-and-post assessments and researched documentation
Black Ice
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 61,990. Language: English. Published: October 15, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » Adventure » Action
This is an action thriller and romance book. Here two individuals get stuck together under protective custody as really pigeons and bait so they can catch Angelo Malone a kingpin of a Bahamiam syndicate. Doc, who lives on a 50 foot sailing schooner saves a targeted model, Kiana, from being killed, but she was able in a ferious fire fight to kill Angelo's brother. Both of them are being hunted now.
Training Project Designed for the State of Tennessee on Literacy and Professional Development
Price: Free! Words: 5,930. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Technology
This project was requested by the State of Tennessee for the purpose of increasing the literacy scores and assisting teachers to improve their teaching abilities. There are five main initiatives promoted by the training.
Instructional Design Using ADDIE Design Concepts: Project
Price: Free! Words: 6,080. Language: English. Published: August 19, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Technology
This is a extensive project using the ADDIE Instructional Design concepts. It consist of an actual project to assist a major organization resolve poor willing-to-recommend scores. The resolution was to create billing training for those representatives assisting customers of this organization. The project involves all phases of ADDIE design as well as all levels of the Kirkpatrick model.
Teaching with Project-Based Teams and Emotional Intelligence
Price: Free! Words: 3,810. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Adult & continuing education
How does a teacher create the whole game of learning in order to teach the hard parts of the curriculum? Maybe a good start will be by creating project-based learning teams and understanding how to use emotional intelligence. This project discusses just how to do that backed by the theory and resources to back it up.
Applying Cognitive Theories to Learning in Team-based Environment
Price: Free! Words: 4,160. Language: English. Published: March 30, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Literature, Nonfiction » Education & Study Guides » Teaching
To use jigsaw (cooperative) learning techniques in teaching is only part of the job in regards to differentiated instruction. When you consider the cognitive theories for learning, then team-based learning groups becomes even more exciting. This paper opens up cognitive theories with valid research and applies the learning to a real classroom.
Training Teachers about Differentiated Instruction
Price: Free! Words: 7,080. Language: English. Published: March 1, 2014 . Categories: Essay » Technology
This training program is designed to help teachers understand how to identify the learning preferences of students. This project supports jigsaw (cooperative) learning techniques as well as using CoPs with peer coaching to assist each other with teaching and learning. Technology is center-point in this project as well as the learning theories that connect practice to end results.
Floaters
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 42,880. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
This book is about a new evolution of mankind (the EvoS) that gives the younger generation abilities from everything from levitation, telepathy, and body extension based on intellect. Suddenly, those very same abilities become a threat to others as terrorist EvoS realize how they can use their own children as weapons against their enemies. EvoS band together to fight against other other EvoS.
Article: Do No Harm
Price: Free! Words: 940. Language: English. Published: November 3, 2013 . Categories: Essay » Business
Understanding how communication works means understanding how to listen with heart and soul. Listening is the tool that can prevent numerous organizational difficulties as well as cost.
How to Tell Team Differences: Edition 3 Management Research Resources
Price: Free! Words: 750. Language: English. Published: July 21, 2013 . Categories: Essay » Business
Short research paper on how to identify the personal preferences of team members and how to use that information effectively in mentoring and team development
Better Team Fit: Management Research Resources Edition 2
Price: Free! Words: 2,010. Language: English. Published: July 14, 2013 . Categories: Essay » Business
Edition 2 of research resource papers. Better Team Fit is all about understanding how best to put together a successful performing team.The team leader selects and manages the team towards the organizational goals by understanding team member differences.
How Are You Gonna Keep Them: Management Research Resources
Price: Free! Words: 1,540. Language: English. Published: July 6, 2013 . Categories: Essay » Business
This research paper concerns employee retention. This is Edition 1 of a series of management research papers to help students in their research for their own management research papers. It is done with standard APA Format and pulls from books, articles, and the world wide web. This paper is formatted in APA Sixth Edition.
The Noah Clan: Dark Nephilim Seeds
Price: Free! Words: 39,850. Language: English. Published: July 3, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
Noah, of Noah's Ark, is still alive in modern times, but so are an alien race of Nephilims called the Blue Eli. After thousands of years of no mention of Nephilims, they now become important to help the earth fight against Apollyon's dark forces and his own red-eyed Nephilims, those born between humans and dark angels.
Day of the Dragons
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 57,560. Language: English. Published: January 27, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Futuristic, Fiction » Inspirational
Fourth book in series of five: The Anti-Christ gathers his massive Chinese-Korean, Dragon armies to attack the United States. He partners to deceive the world with the help of the False Prophet and the Harlot of Babylon. They gather in one final effort to turn the tables against the Lord of Host with hell and all its dark angels as they end up fighting against heaven in the Battle of Armageddon
Preparing Excellence for the Excellent
Price: Free! Words: 39,470. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Reference » Handbooks & Manuals
This is a published educational project requested by the University of Bahr el Ghazal in the Wau Province of Sudan. David was requested to redesign the business and finance curriculum to more current educational standards for the University. This is a only "fair use" project that is a great resource for educators in educational settings.
Talking the Talk of the New Covenant Species
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 29,280. Language: English. Published: July 16, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Spiritual inspiration
Words, words, words that speak to us from the Lord and plant deep spiritual principles into our lives. How are we talking? Are we talking in accordance with the Word or in accordance with the world? It's time to change our ways and become the new covenant species that we were designed to be.
Cleft of the Rock: Survival Guide for the New Covenant Species
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 42,190. Language: English. Published: July 15, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Spiritual inspiration
David takes our favorite Psalm, the 23rd Psalm, and turns it into practical application for our everyday lives. This is his way of letting God get to us and us getting to Him in ways that refresh our walk in Him. We need to stop blaming Him for bad things that happen to us and hold to those things that bless us on a daily basis.
Handbook for Better Organizational Training and Communication
Price: Free! Words: 27,750. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Education
This book addresses many organizational needs that involve how employees learn, trainers train, and organizations best communicate. The new needs of organizations involve being able to better use emotional intelligence habits, authentic listening skills, better gender and diversity communication along with expert conflict resolution techniques.
Armageddon Darkness
Price: Free! Words: 83,390. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Fantasy
(4.00 from 3 reviews)
Third book in a series of five: A novel about the times from the rapture into the times of the Anti-Christ. This story carries a reader through cataclysmic, end-time events, the mark of the beast, and tells how a couple of unlikely teenagers with a Holy Ghost dog, Nicodemus, with special angelic assistance, save the United States from a terrible murderous disaster.
With Fear and Trembling: Walking the Walk of the New Covenant Species
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 41,790. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Inspiration » Spiritual inspiration
(5.00 from 1 review)
David continues to emphasize the ultimate need to walk in holiness and under the influence of the direct presence of the Lord. He believes as he speaks in this book that we are to walk in the garden in a fellowship with Jesus just like we were designed to do. He also talks about the holy need to walk in the light where there is no darkness or greys of any kind.
Nephilim Wars
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 87,180. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Fantasy
(5.00 from 1 review)
Fifth book in series of five: A novel about planet earth years after the rapture during the 1,000 year reign of peace. This is a fascinating look how two light nephilims, Day and Star, try to stop a great dark nephilim plot. this plot is an attempt to kill Jesus in Jerusalem and set Apollyon and his dark angels free from the abyss of the Fernandilian volcano.
Children of the Sanctuary
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 114,780. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Fantasy
(5.00 from 1 review)
Second book in a series of five: A novel of how God delivers thousands of children to his protected sanctuary in Sewanee, Tennessee in the last days until the rapture. The Lord's angels with the help of spirit-filled teenagers battle against Apollyon's dark legions to keep the children safe. Sometimes referred to as Christian fantasy
Irish: An Angel's Journey
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 102,130. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Fantasy
(5.00 from 1 review)
First book in series of five: A novel about how Irish, a heir-servant angel, takes a learning journey with Grace, a very naive and sometimes goofy newly created angel, to teach her about human ways. Irish's journey takes her cross-country to Sewanee, TN. There, with the help of Aaron, commander of the angel legions, Irish tries to stop Apollyon's assassin from ruining God's plan for the end times.

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