Designing and developing training programs

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Title:

Designing and developing training programs

Author:

Chan, Janis Fisher.

ISBN:

9780470404690

Personal Author:

Chan, Janis Fisher.

Publication Information:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2010.

Physical Description:

xiv, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Pfeiffer essential guide to training basics

Pfeiffer essential guides to training basics.

General Note:

"An essential knowledge resource"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

1. The training plan -- 2. Analyzing the situation -- 3. Writing learning objectives -- 4. Choosing the delivery method -- 5. Identifying content -- 6. Planning the learning activities -- 7. Structuring a training program -- 8. Developing materials and validating the program -- 9. Evaluating the results -- 10. Designing distance learning programs.

Abstract:

"A comprehensive resource, this book offers detailed guidelines and tools to help trainers (both new and seasoned) to design training workshops that will be meet objectives and engage participants. This comprehensive book offers step-by-step information that walks trainers through all phases of designing a winning workshop. The book contains best practices for designing and developing training programs including information on planning a project, assessing the audience, covering needs, creating performance-based objectives, when and if to use off-the-shelf programs, developing enabling objectives, pacing, creating activities, test-running your program, and much more."--Publisher's website.

Subject Term:

Employees -- Training of.

Employee training personnel.

Training.

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Summary

Designing and Developing Training Programs is filled with practical information, best practices, and proven strategies. This book will help both new and experienced trainers design and develop training programs that achieve results for both individuals and their organizations while meeting the challenges of today's fast-paced, rapidly changing learning environment. Created to be easy-to-use, Designing and Developing Training Programs covers a wide range of topics, including how to:

Ensure that training is needed, relevant, and cost-effective

Analyze the needs and characteristics of the audience

Write behavioral learning

Select the right content and design activities that help people learn

Develop effective learning materials

Create a program evaluation

Design virtual and remote training programs

Praise for Designing and Developing Training Programs

"Janis Fisher Chan is truly a master designer, having an uncanny ability to help people to truly think. Her book is of real service to anyone in the field of training."
--Manfred Kets de Vries, Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and director, INSEAD Global Leadership Centre

"What makes Janis Chan's book so exceptional is the variety of challenging, content-related exercises that bring the concepts 'up close and personal' into the reader's life and work."
--Sharon Bowman, Author, Training from the BACK of the Room!