Business : Training

Busy trainers rarely have time to read complicated textbooks about the theory of training. They need down-to-earth, practical suggestions that are easy to read and simple to use. This book is designed as a dip-in resource. Over 500 short, sharp suggestions are logically presented from planning through to evaluating, but the text is also accessible for quick reference on these and other topics, including: organizing the venue; motivating participants; running training events; using resources effectively; making the most of feedback. more...

Price: $33.95

Dozens of customizable performance improvement tools. Mel Silberman's bestselling books on ''Active Training'' have sold more than 68,000 copies. In The Active Manager's Tool Kit , Silberman takes his trademarked approach to ''Active Training'' and applies it to ''Active Managing.'' Instead of telling employees what to do and sitting back to wait for results, ''active managers'' conduct team building, motivate, coach, and guide their direct reports to be self-directing, accountable, and team oriented. The Active Manager's Tool Kit is full of work sheets and reproducible tools that can be downloaded from the Web and customized or photocopied. These include reproducible job aids for employees, performance improvement activities that managers can use to train their own teams, and questionnaires that help both manager and employees assess how well they are doing. The tools in this book enable the ''active manager'' to coach and lead effectively. more...

Price: $29.95

Workplace learning and organizational learning as areas of inquiry stem from different and still quite separate disciplinary backgrounds and commitments. Workplace learning has largely emerged as an extension of educational research stepping beyond the confines of schools and other institutions of formal learning. The commitment of studies of workplace learning is commonly pedagogical: improvement of conditions and practices of learning and instruction in work settings. Organizational learning emerged as a sub-field of organization and management studies, trying to find explanatory mechanisms for success and failure in organizational renewal and subsequently organizational knowledge formation. Studies in organizational learning are commonly driven by interests in management, whether utilitarian or critical. The divide between workplace learning and organizational learning has resemblances to the classic divides between micro and macro, between agency and structure. more...

Price: $199.00

This is a new book in The Skilled Trainer series which provides practical guidance for those who've had some exposure to training and would like to take their career to the next level. This book is intended to help begin trainers move their training and facilitation skills to the next level. more...

Price: $45.00

This Benchmarking Skills Rapid Skill Builder booklet explains the benchmarking process in a step-by-step manner and offers a practical action template that can be applied in almost any situation. more...

Price: $9.50