Making Learning Stick: 20 Easy and Effective Techniques that Transfer Training

Training may be a pleasant break from the usual routine, but too often the long-term results are lacking. With Making Learning Stick, you'll have a practical handbook to help ensure that transfer of training happens, so that what people learn in class is actually applied on the job, where it counts. This easy-to-use guide and resource details 20 low-cost techniques to integrate education (TIEs), ranging from use of podcasts to involvement of training buddies. Serving as both a step-by-step guide and an ongoing resource, this book provides sample forms and examples, plus a complementary website with additional materials. Your training efforts can evolve into a way of life for your trainees, and your organization will reap the long-term results that indicate successful transfer of training.

Barbara Carnes is a pioneer in the subject of training transfer, having written three books and a PhD dissertation on the subject. Her experience includes more than 30 years of training with Sprint North Supply and Carnes and Associates, the training company she founded in 1982. Currently Carnes teaches human resource development graduate courses at Webster University, plus doctoral courses for The University of Phoenix. She regularly conducts train-the-trainer workshops and presentations, is actively involved with both ASTD and SHRM, and writes a newsletter, Sticky Notes. Barbara Carnes resides in St. Louis, Missouri.