PFEIFFER ESSENTIAL GUIDES TO TRAINING BASICS 
Delivering Training Workshops is filled with practical information, best practices, and proven strategies. This book will help trainers, no matter what their level of experience, prepare and deliver effective workshops that achieve results for both individuals and their organizations while meeting the challenges of today's fast-paced, rapidly changing learning environment. It covers a wide range of topics, including: 
<ul>
<li>Planning and scheduling a workshop</li> <li>Methods for preparing workshop participants to learn</li> <li>Tips to help trainers increase their confidence</li> <li>Keep participants engaged and involved</li> <li>How to present information clearly, respond to questions, and manage the group</li> <li>Tools for measuring workshop success</li> <li>Methods for conducting virtual workshops</li> </ul>
The Pfeiffer Essential Guides to Training Basics is a three-volume series―Training Fundamentals, Designing and Developing Training Programs, and Delivering Training Workshops―that offers new and experienced trainers a wealth of ideas, information, tips, tools, and techniques. 
Praise for Delivering Training Workshops 
"Here's a terrific guide....to make sure you successfully teach others what you know." ―Barbara Nelson, principal of Nelson Communications 
"Janis Chan guides you step-by-step through the process of planning and delivering training that engages participants and helps them learn, sharing her vast store of practical tips and techniques." ―Sue Funkhouser, facilitator and organization development consultant, Pinwheel Performance 
"A learning tool....to increase your confidence and deliver training that achieves results." ―Natasha Terk, President, Write It Well

Delivering Training Workshops: Pfeiffer Essential Guides to Training Basics

Business & Money

CHAN, JANIS FISHER

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

An essential resource on the topic, this book provides research-based practical information, strategies, techniques, guidelines, step-by-step procedures, tips, and tools that trainers can put to use right away. It features a wealth of checklists, templates, and other tools, along with strategies, perspectives, and ideas from a wide range of experienced training professionals. The book offers a comprehensive overview of training basics including information on the purpose of training, the way it’s delivered, what a trainer does, adult learning theory, training assessment, learner focused training, cost-effective training, and instructional design.

Training Fundamentals: Pfeiffer Essential Guides to Training Basics

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: <ul>
<li>Ensure that training is needed, relevant, and cost-effective</li> <li> Analyze the needs and characteristics of the audience </li> <li> Write behavioral learning </li> <li> Select the right content and design activities that help people learn </li> <li> Develop effective learning materials </li> <li> Create a program evaluation </li> <li> Design virtual and remote training programs </li> </ul>
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!

Designing and Developing Training Programs: Pfeiffer Essential Guides to Training Basics

Newly appointed academic managers are expected to conduct and lead a wide variety of meetings. Often, however, these managers lack the skills needed to lead meetings that get meaningful results. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Meetings is specifically designed to help managers understand how to conduct successful meetings that accomplish specific objectives as efficiently as possible. This helpful resource includes practical guidelines and information that can be put into place immediately to help ensure that meetings run effectively.

The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Meetings

Jossey-Bass

Pay by Check

Personal Finance

Janus Book Pub/Alemany Pr

This series of eight worktexts uses realistic, fictional characters in money-management scenarios to help enforce the skills students will need to become smart, aware consumers. Reading Level: 2Interest Level: 6-12

Pay by Check: A Guide to Checking Accounts (Money Matters Guides)

Globe Fearon Co.

This book is essential for anyone who wants to learn or review the right way to use grammar and punctuation. A complete self-study program in a handy workbook format, it provides the same practical techniques and strategies Advanced Communication Designs' instructors have taught to business and professional peoplesince 1980. In only eight lessons, you'll learn to understand the terms used to talk about writing; write complete, clear sentences instead of fragments and run-ons; use pronouns and verbs correctly; use commas and other punctuation correctly; avoid confusing commonly confused words; and avoid gender bias. Filled with practice exercises with immediate feedback, the book can be used for self-study or as the text for a class.

Grammar for Grownups: A Self-Paced Training Manual

Skills

Advanced Communication Designs, Inc.

This book is essential for anyone who needs to write performance evaluations and other documents that support ratings and actions with facts and tell people exactly what they're expected to do. A complete self-study program in a handy workbook format, it provides the same practical techniques and strategies Advanced Communication Designs instructors have taught to business and professional people since 1980.  Writing Performance Documentation supplements existing performance management systems and training programs with practical techniques and strategies, including how to use specific, objective terms to describe performance; use facts and observations to support conclusions, ratings, recommendations and actions; and write measurable, observable performance objectives.  Filled with practice exercises with immediate feedback, the book can be used for self-study or as the text for a class.

Writing Performance Documentation

This book is essential for anyone who needs to write clear, concise letters, memos, reports, proposals or other business documents. A complete self-study program in a handy workbook format, it provides the same practical techniques and strategies Advanced Communication Designs instructors have taught to business and professional people since 1980. PROFESSIONAL WRITING SKILLS includes techniques for getting started, conveying the main point clearly, selecting and organizing information, using the right tone, using active, jargon-free language, and eliminating unnecessary words. Filled with practice exercises with immediate feedback, the book can be used for self-study or as the text for a class.

Professional Writing Skills: A Self-Paced Training Program

Lutovich, Diane

Advanced Communication Designs

Who needs this book? Anyone who writes or edits reports or proposals, including technical reports, marketing reports, funding proposals, R&D reports, financial reports, and responses to RFP's. HOW TO WRITE REPORTS AND PROPOSALS is a complete training program that can be used as self-study, as the text for classes, as a "refresher," or to conduct tutorials. You'll learn practical techniques and strategies you can use immediately to plan and write reports and proposals that include the right information, organized in the right way. You'll find clear examples and explanations as well as practice exercises with immediate feedback and suggestions for applying techniques to job-related writing projects. When you finish this book, you'll be able to: * Get started by evaluating readers; clarifying the readers' most important question; and identifying report sections * Determine what information to include in each report section and organize it logically * Use lists, charts, graphs and visuals to communicate information efficiently * Write useful headings and subheadings that give readers a "road map" through the document * Write effective introductions and report summaries * Use concise, precise, active, accurate language that communicates clearly to specific readers

How to Write Reports and Proposals

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