Effective training delivery is a critical skill for keeping an organization competitive. This book offers, for the first time, a research-based analysis of the 14 key skills (or "competencies") trainers must master to be effective. It provides trainers with pragmatic ways to apply these competencies in the real world. Some of these skills include how to: 
• Analyze materials and learner information • Establish credibility • Create a psychological environment that keeps learners’ interest level high • Communicate effectively • Use questioning techniques • Respond positively to trainees’ questions and reactions • Provide positive reinforcement • Utilize specific tools (case studies, simulation, lecture, discussion, and others) • Evaluate afterwards • Train in an international setting.

The Complete Guide to Training Delivery: A Competency-Based Approach

Business & Money

Rothwell, William J.

King, Stephen B.

King, Marsha

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

Today's dynamic organizations must achieve positive results in record time - a challenge that requires managers to avoid problems before they arise and to solve these issues quickly. Human Performance Improvement (HPI) is a powerful tool that can be used to help build intellectual capital, establish and maintain a 'high-performance workplace, enhance profitability, and encourage productivity' - as well as increase return on equity and improved safety. This book provides the tools and techniques that are fundamental to the practice of HPI. 'Human Performance Improvement' is all you need to understand and carry out your own HPI plan and is invaluable for trainers, HR practitioners, line managers, workers, college students who are being introduced to Human Performance Improvement principles, and anyone who is interested in improving how well and how much people perform in organizational settings. 'Human Performance Improvement' shows you how to: * discover and analyze important human performance gaps * plan for the future improvements in human performance * design and develop cost-effective and ethically-justifiable interventions to close performance gaps * analyze trends and their implications for HPI This book provides the tools and techniques that are fundamental to the practice of HPI. 'Human Performance Improvement' is all you need to understand and carry out your own HPI plan and is invaluable for trainers, HR practitioners, line managers, workers, college students who are being introduced to Human Performance Improvement principles, and anyone who is interested in improving how well and how much people perform in organizational settings.'Human Performance Improvement' will show you how to: * discover and analyze important human performance gaps* plan for the future improvements in human performance* design and develop cost-effective and ethically-justifiable interventions to close performance gaps* analyze trends and their implications for HPI

Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Competence (Improving Human Performance Series)

Hohne, Carolyn K.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Butterworth-Heinemann

A comprehensive framework for effective real-world instructional design Mastering the Instructional Design Process provides step-by-step guidance on the design and development of an engaging, effective training program. The focus on core competencies of instructional system design helps you develop your skills in a way that's immediately applicable to real-world settings, and this newly updated fifth edition has been revised to reflect the new IBSTPI Competencies and Standards for Instructional Design. With a solid foundation of researched and validated standards, this invaluable guide provides useful insight and a flexible framework for approaching instructional design from a practical perspective. Coverage includes the full range of design considerations concerning the learners, objectives, setting, and more, and ancillaries include design templates, PowerPoint slides, lecture notes, and a test bank help you bring these competencies to the classroom. 
Instructional design is always evolving, and new trends are emerging to meet the ever-changing needs of learners and exploit the newest tools at our disposal. This book brings together the latest developments and the most effective best practices to give you a foolproof framework for successfully managing instructional design projects. 
<ul>
<li>Detect and solve human performance problems</li> <li>Analyze needs, learners, work settings, and work</li> <li>Establish performance objectives and measurements</li> <li>Deliver effective instruction in a variety of scenarios</li> </ul>
Effective training programs don't just happen. Instructional design is a complex field, and practitioners must be skilled in very specific areas to deliver a training program that engages learners and makes the learning 'stick.' Mastering the Instructional Design Process is a comprehensive handbook for developing the skillset that facilitates positive training outcomes.

Mastering the Instructional Design Process: A Systematic Approach

Benscoter, Bud

Human Resources

Pfeiffer

Human Performance Improvement

Today's dynamic organizations must achieve positive results in record time - a challenge that requires managers to avoid problems before they arise and to solve these issues quickly. Human Performance Improvement (HPI) is a powerful tool that can be used to help build intellectual capital, establish and maintain a 'high-performance workplace, enhance profitability, and encourage productivity' - as well as increase return on equity and improved safety.Written by a group of highly respected authors in the field, this book will show you how to:-- discover and analyze performance gaps- plan for future improvements in human performance- design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps.

Routledge

Organizations are under pressure to build and sustain competitive advantage with and through people. For that reason, managers continue to demand results from workers and look for as many ways as possible to increase productivity and decrease the costs of doing business. Human performance improvement (HPI) is a systematic approach to securing better performance from people. This book provides a thorough overview of the theory and practice of HPI, looking at the long-term action plan and specific interventions that can improve productivity and address performance problems. This new edition provides up-to-date references and sources, examines the manager’s role in HPI in more detail than previous editions, and explores how to build on human performance improvement strengths and opportunities. Written by a group of highly respected authors in the field, this book will show you how to discover and analyze performance gaps, plan for future improvements in human performance, and design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps. HPI is not a tool reserved exclusively for training and development practitioners, human resource specialists, or external consultants. Almost anyone can use it, including managers, supervisors, and even employees, making this book vital reading for anyone looking to improve human performance.

Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance

Jenny is a lonely university lecturer who's consciousness has traveled back in time to her younger body to try to save the future of the world. A young microbiologist is going to release a genetically modified wheat that will mutate and ultimately destroy all plant life, leaving nothing but barren windswept dust bowls. In the past, Jenny finds a love that has been missing from her life; the kind that comes just once in a lifetime. But Jenny can only stay in that time period for thirty-three days. Meanwhile, in the future, fearful Jenny will fail, plans are made to send another back in time--an assassin. How can she choose between saving the man she loves or saving the future?

Thirty-Three Days

Romance

Paranormal

The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (Fantasy Rose)

In 1999 Australia, Sergeant Rick McCoy investigates the murder of a woman found packed inside a suitcase. The Killer abducts another victim and threatens to dismember her slowly. His life is further complicated by a marriage in tatters. Frustrated at every turn, he is paired with glamorous Criminal Psychologist and profiler, Patricia Holmes. While trying to rebuild his marriage, he finds himself in a desperate race against time to free the victim and fight his desire for his new partner.

Glimpse, Memoir of a Serial Killer (Deadly Glimpses)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

The Wild Rose Press, Inc.

Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths (Deadly Glimpses)

Criminal psychologist Patricia Holmes is now a detective paired with Detective Sergeant Rick McCoy. Together they hunt The Biblical Killer, so named for the quotes left on walls written in the victim's blood. To lure the murderer out they join the Tender Nights internet dating site, openly making themselves targets. Rick and Pat have fought their desire for each other for months. Can they now survive their lust and an insane murderer intent on vengeance?

Glimpse, The Tender Killer (Deadly Glimpses)

Wild Rose Press

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The Complete Guide to Training Delivery: A Competency-Based Approach

Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Competence (Improving Human Performance Series)

Mastering the Instructional Design Process: A Systematic Approach

Human Performance Improvement

Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance

Human Performance Improvement

Thirty-Three Days

Glimpse, Memoir of a Serial Killer (Deadly Glimpses)

Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths (Deadly Glimpses)

Glimpse, The Tender Killer (Deadly Glimpses)