Active Training

by Carol Auerbach, Melvin L. Silberman, Silberman

A must-read for anyone who wants training to be effective and engaging. ?Sivasailam Thiagarajan, Author, Games by Thiagi One of the most comprehensive texts on training ever compiled, Active Training... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787909084
• ISBN13: 9780787909086
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.6"

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This book arrived in excellent condition. The book is easy to read with great examples.

Active Training

This book is an excellent supplement for teaching employee training and development as a course. I'd recommend combining it with Noe's text (Employee Training and Development) for a college or graduate level course on this subject. The book is also a good stand-alone reference for teaching aspects of active training to a firm's curriculum development staff.

Activate Your Training

Mel Silberman is the master of active training. Just skimming his book gave me a handful of new ideas I applied to my training. Reading the book helped me to revamp my training courses to include many more participatory training exercises. Everybody loves being involved, talking, interacting, and exploring during training. Lecture, however, is too often the default methodology. In some ways lecture takes less time to prepare and is less risky, but is it more effective learning? In this day and age, linear, slow, from-up-front training just isn't effective. Instead, shift over to active training that engages and empowers participants to learn rather than be taught. I'm reminded of Winston Churchill when he said, "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." Silberman gives idea after idea of how to spice up lectures, or better yet, replace them with other a dozen other learning methods that actively involve the participant. The 100+ exercises and examples in Active Training makes it easy to incorporate non-cheesy learning activities that really work. Wake up your participants! Get active.

Many good ideas on how to make your training more active

This book has many good ideas on how to make your training more active. For example, it give one ideas on how to turn a mundane one-way lecture into a lively interactive discussion so that the participants not only enjoy the learning, but retain and use the knowledge gained. In addition, there are many activities that a trainer can use to make his or her training more lively. I strongly recommend this book to all trainers.