Effective Training: Systems, Strategies, And Practices

This practical, reader-friendly book discusses training and how it relates to business objectives and strategies. Using a model of the training process to assist readers in understanding the training process, it emphasizes the value of developing training programs, with examples provided for both large and small organizations, relating training to the overall strategy of a firm. This book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as the role of training in organizations; training in large and small businesses; strategic planning; human resources departments and their role in supporting strategy; theories of learning and their application; needs analysis; training design; training methods; training development and implementation; and training evaluation. For Human Resources Department managers and staff, trainers, project managers, business strategists, and team trainers and team developers.

Effective Training, Second Edition, discusses theory and principles of training as they relate to organizational objectives and strategies. This new edition emphasizes the value of developing training programs that relate training to the overall strategy of a firm.

• NEW—New chapter on important types of training programs—This chapter addresses orientation, diversity, sexual harassment, and team-training.
• NEW—Expanded examples of training objectives— Comprehensive comparative tables of poor training objectives examples, show how to take poor training objectives and develop better ones.
• NEW—"How to actually do it" sections—These sections use real training situations, with step-by-step instructions from inception to evaluation.
• Design theory—Effective Training is the only text on the market that provides guidance in training design using this theory.
• A comprehensive model of the training process—By using this model of the training process, students are able to apply what they learned to study the various programs presented.
• Strategic approach—The strategic approach puts training into the larger context of an organization's overall objectives and strategy.