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Telling Ain't Training | 
 enlarge | Author: Harold Stolovitch
Publisher: ASTD Press
Category: Book
List Price: $38.95
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 7918
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1562863282
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3124
EAN: 9781562863289
ASIN: 1562863282
Publication Date: May 1, 2002
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This book is an entertaining and practical guide for every trainer and performance improvement professional as it tackles the three universal and persistent questions of the profession--how do learners learn, why do learners learn, and how do you ensure that learning sticks. This interactive book with it fun and breezy style illustrate the authors' point of view that learning should be active and enjoyable. Playful illustrations demonstrate the solid research that back up the authors' contentions and help readers separate learning myth from fact to dispel beliefs and practices that often harm the instructional process.
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A Must Read for Trainers (or future trainers) September 17, 2008
Mitchel Martin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those of you in the training industry (or those contemplating becoming a trainer) READ THIS BOOK! It contains many important examples and instruction on how to become a more effective trainer. I just finished reading this book for the third time, and it seems to get better every time I read it!
Post-training evaluations tell us a bit about our training delivery, but these do not always reflect our effectiveness in the training; in many cases, we are training people that know very little about the subject we are training about. So often times, our evaluations reflect how the training attendees "liked" our training; not necessarily how much they learned about our subject matter.
The most important lessons I learned from this book were:
1) Making certain that your training will improve workplace performance. This is a key to ensuring that your customers invite you back for future training sessions. If your trainees are able to "hit the road running" right after the training, your value as a trainer will be magnified many, many times...
2) Using the five-step model to retrofit existing training sessions - how to make your existing training program even more effective.
3) Repetition Techniques - how to improve your training for better retention.
4) How to create effective training "tests" - I've always struggled with the testing portion of the training and this chapter is key to providing the trainees with feedback on what they are learning.
5) A table listing the different types of training tools with the advantages and disadvantages of each type.
A good book for beginning as well as experienced trainers August 25, 2008
Ronald L. Gurney (Utica NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellenet resource for both beginning Trainers as well as those who have many years experience. It is not only a "how-to" book, but a "why" book; explaining the adult learning process and how training adults has to be more performance and job-centered. The book is well written, engaging and gives the reader opportunities to practive the techniques discussed in the book as you are reading. It provides an excellent Training Session Planning Sheet and Training Session Scripting Sheet. It discusses how adults learn, how to get them motivated, how to reinforce the remembering process, how to develop training activities and then evaluate the students ability to perform the task.
Any Instructor or Training of Adults will benefit from this book, whether you are just starting out as a Trainer or have many years experience. I am now able to understand why some of my students seem to "get it" while others never seem to grasp the concepts. I have learned some valuable new skills and will now make my training sessions more learner-focused.
Research Based, easy read, well written July 28, 2008
Jeffrey I. Lecompte (Oklahoma)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book manages to deliver what you need to know to develop and implement training, based on current research and still be readable and enjoyable. For once the trainers seemed to have followed their own advice -- keeping the learner active and engaged.
Good overview, may use it as the basis for my own train the trainer course.
Great Book! February 28, 2008
Sebastian Teo (Sebastian)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book for all trainers. Many useful concepts and I especially like the parts about how our brian processes information. It's fun and easy to read and more importanly, a lot of what is written is based on lots of research. So the stuff in there is validated. I used this as a complement to Bob Pike's Creative Training Techniques.
Well Done August 15, 2007
Jesse Pacem
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reading this book was well worth my time. The authors present academic concepts in plain english. They did a great job of shifting my training mindset from a focus on content to a focus on learning. They gave me many practical strategies for improving my trainings.
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