The First-Time Trainer: A Step-By-Step Quick Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and New Training Professionals

The First-Time Trainer: A Step-By-Step Quick Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and New Training ProfessionalsSuccessful organizations depend on expert training to keep them viable, but leaders aren't always equipped to step into the role of trainer when asked. As a professional trainer and consultant who formerly served as president of the San Diego Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, author Tom Goad offers a concise, step by step guide to quickly help you become a confident, effective trainer. You'll learn to tackle challenges of

Successful organizations depend on expert training to keep them viable, but leaders aren't always equipped to step into the role of trainer when asked. As a professional trainer and consultant who formerly served as president of the San Diego Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, author Tom Goad offers a concise, step-by-step guide to quickly help you become a confident, effective trainer. You'll learn to tackle challenges of diversity, a multigenerational workforce, and the many options made possible by technology and e-learning through the most up-to-the minute training techniques. The First-Time Trainer does this by teaching readers how to select media and delivery methods, prepare and give effective presentations, communicate with learners and get them involved, ask the right kind of questions, cope with behavior problems, give and receive feedback, put objectives to the test, and much more. Training is still the top strategy to help employees perform at their best. Filled with real-world examples and dozens of field-tested tools, this thoroughly revised, user-friendly book gets first-time facilitators training like pros in no time.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 03/17/2010
ISBN: 9780814415597
Pages: 211
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
Award: San Diego Book Awards - Winner

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 135