The Trainer'S Handbook, Fourth Edition

This book presents a comprehensive, systematic approach to developing training skills and competencies. This process, reflected in the arrangement of this book, consists of five parts:analysis, design, development, delivery, and evaluation. The book includes checklists, forms, and specific activities that you can use immediately in designing, developing, and delivering your own training programs.

1. Assessing Needs
2. Understanding Adult Learners
3. Training Styles
4. Understanding Today’s Learner
5. Writing Instructional Objectives
6. Writing an Instructional Plan
7. Selecting, Designing, and Developing Active-Training Methods
8. Delivering Training
9. Using Visual Aids

10. Distance Learning

11. Working with Groups

12. Using Creativity

13. Evaluating Training

14. The Business of Consulting: Internal and External

15. Training During Tough Times

16. Training Leaders*new

17. Training Across Cultures*

18. Training Technologies*

19. Blended Learning*

KAREN LAWSON, PHD, is an international consultant, speaker, and author. As founder and president of Lawson Consulting Group, Inc., she is the author ofLeadership Development Basics, The Art of Influencing, Improving Workplace Performance Through Coaching,Improving On-the-Job Training and Coaching, SkillBuilders: 50 Communication Skills Activities,New Employee Orientation Training, and Involving Your AudienceMake It Active. She is coauthor of101 Ways to Make Training Active (first edition) and has published dozens of articles in professional journals.