Sorry this is a day late, life happens – Well I promised to give some useful tools to put in your training toolbox – I had a comment on a past post and the writer suggested that “companies are choosing to use additional methods such as corporate videos for training and development opportunities (benefits enrollments in particular)”. The gentleman sent a link to his site and I thought it might be a good tool so the link is:
http://www.icorporatevideo.com – you might want to check it out. – other tools are:
Books – I recommend the following:
Brain teasers, There are a myriad of these out there amazon.com is a good place to look – Brain teasers are a great place to start a training session gets em up and thinking!
Any book by Robert Mager
Donald Kirkpatrick’s 4 levels of evaluation
Make Training Work – Phillips
e-Learning – Rosen
Training aint telling (ASTD publication)
Running Training Like a Business – David Van Adelsberg, Edward A Trolley
And my personal favorite “Who Moved the Cheese”
I also have laminated Harless’ 13 questions for HPT here’s a link for that
http://boisemicrocinema.com/virmedian/hpttoolkit/chapter2.html
I also can’t say enough about ASTD’s info lines they have been invaluable to me when I was a grad student and I am sure I will use them when I eventually find a job.
One thing I also recommend is a membership to ASTD they are a wealth of information and the site is really user friendly.
I also recommend looking at www.langevin.com they are a train the trainer site and also have great classes and certifications too.
I am sure your toolbox is pretty complete, but I thought I’d add my two-cents too and once again happy training and suggestions comments and concerns are welcome as well as guest writers.
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Jack Shaw is a communicator who does training and has been in the trenches as well as in management and development areas. His priority is how to communicate credibily in the workplace.