Building Effective Technical Training is a hands-on guidebook written by William J. Rothwell and Joseph A. Benkowski-- two experts in the field of technical training-- that includes a wealth of information, guidelines, and suggestions for creating and implementing technical training programs for organizations of all types and sizes. In addition, the book is filled with real-life examples and proven techniques from successful technical trainings and includes the authors' own lessons learned from professional lives dedicated to training.

Building Effective Technical Training: How to Develop Hard Skills Within Organizations

Business & Money

Rothwell, William J.

Benkowski, Joseph A.

Industries

Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer

An updated classic! The first research-based guide to developing training programs that truly improve employee performance, Mastering the Instructional Design Process will serve as a road map for all trainers, human resource managers, and instructional designers charged with the responsibility of finding effective, lasting solutions to employee performance problems. This guidebook will teach you how to:  Detect employee performance problems Conduct a needs assessment Identify causes of performance problems Develop performance objectives Implement working solutions  Mastering the Instructional Design Process is essential to anyone who seeks to improve workplace performance with training, job aids, organization development, employee reward programs, task-related feedback, and high-impact hiring. Full of case studies, checklists, and charts, this is your guide to performance improvement!

Mastering the Instructional Design Process: A Systematic Approach

Two training legends offer you a definitive team sourcebook! The world's two best-known team-building facilitators bring youover thirty-five cutting-edge activities. You'll turn to thistreasury of hassle-free, sure-fire games, exercises, andsimulations time and time again. "In keeping with the tradition of continuous learning aboutteamwork, Thiagi and Parker have hit a home run. Teamwork andTeamplay is a must-have for every training bookshelf." --Harvey A. Robbins, co-author, Why Teams Don't Work "I can think of forty reasons to buy this book: thirty-eight gamesand activities, each a gem--plus two of the best writers in thetraining business. I am truly impressed at how well each activityis designed and how easy the rules are to understand." --Steve Sugar, author, Games That Teach; president, The GameGroup The game formats are varied: some short, some long; someicebreakers, some closers; and much more! A game selection matrixenables you to find a game that suits your situation. Plus,training legends Thiagi and Parker share with you their proveninsights on effective teamwork and facilitation.

Teamwork and Teamplay: Games and Activities for Building and Training Teams

Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan

Glenn Parker

Management & Leadership

Learn from the best of the best! Written by highly regarded experts in the field--including Zane L.Berge, Jay A. Conger, Robert Hargrove, James M. Kouzes, JulieO'Mara, Barry Z. Posner, Fran Rees, William J. Rothwell, and EdgarH. Schein--What Smart Trainers Know offers you a comprehensiveguide to the HRD profession's most critical issues. In thirty-fivemini-chapters (each of which can be read in approximately fifteenminutes) the book provides a handy resource for new practitionerswho want to develop a broad working knowledge of the field. Thebook also offers seasoned professionals the opportunity to examinethe latest thinking from a wide range of noted experts. Emphasizing practical applications of theory, this collectioncovers all the basic needs of HRD practitioners in five keycategories: * Strategic training and development * Employee and organizational development * Assessment and evaluation * Training and development design * Training and development methods "Whether you're new to training or a seasoned pro, looking fortheory or practical application or needing to be revitalized orreconfirmed, What Smart Trainers Know has been written by thebest-of-the-best to deliver what you need." --Elaine Biech, ebb associates inc., and author, The Business ofConsulting

What Smart Trainers Know: The Secrets of Success from the World's Foremost Experts

Strategic Planning for Success offers you a pragmatic guide to the design and development of practical and pragmatic strategic thinking and organizational alignment that will yield high-impact results and measurably add value to you, your organization, your clients, and society. Unlike other books on the topic, this volume goes beyond simply detailing the tools and techniques of design and development by clearly showing how to align what you do with what will be most valuable to all stakeholders. Using this unique approach will yield extraordinary results adding measurable value that flows from individual performance accomplishment to organizational and societal contributions.

Strategic Planning For Success: Aligning People, Performance, and Payoffs

Ryan Watkins

Roger Kaufman

Hugh Oakley-Brown

Doug Leigh

New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and changeContinuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. 
Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure.
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<li>Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results</li>
<li>Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work</li>
<li>Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well</li>
<li>Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others</li>
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Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

Amy C. Edmondson

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