How to Survive a Training Assignment: A Practical Guide for the New, Part-Time or Temporary Trainer

By Steven K. Ellis

Book Overview

As a supervisor, manager, engineer, or technical expert, you may often be asked to pass on your important knowledge and skill to other people in your organization. This convenient handbook provides everything you need to know to succeed with these occasional or routine training assignments. Formatted for easy reference, and avoiding jargon or heavy doses of theory, this unique volume lays out the basics of training, including: the characteristics of the adult learnertraining objectives and why they are importanthow to design a training programwhen and how to use different instructional techniquesselecting the right visual aidcreating lesson planshow to give an effective presentationdrawing on subject matter expertsevaluating and giving feedbackAlong with practical tips and examples, author Steven Ellis, also provides extensive checklists, a summary of each chapter's main points, and a list of references and materials--everything to help you from start to finish.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201066475
• ISBN13: 9780201066470
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Quickly covers the basics

This book is a good overview of what is needed to effectively train staff. It covers everything from adult learning to evaluating programs. It doesn't offer depth on any topic, but if someone needs to learn about training quickly and easily than this is an excellent source.