TRAINING BOOKS
Training Needs Assessment:
Methods, Tools and Techniques
by Jean Barbazette
This book covers the essentials of needs analysis from the emerging trainer's perspective by providing just the right amount of support and knowledge without going
too deep into the subject. The topics covered include when and how to do a training needs analysis; using informal and formal analysis
techniques; goal, task and population analysis; and how to develop and present a training plan for management approval. Each chapter includes
appropriate data gathering tools. The Skilled Trainer series provides
practical guidance for those who've had some exposure to training and
would like to take their career to the next level.
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Training Needs Assessment: Methods, Tools, and Techniques
Managing The Training Function
For Bottom Line Results
by Jean Barbazette
This book presents time saving strategies, tactics, and a host of job
aids to get the best result 
from the corporate learning function. It will
serve both as a must-have reference tool and as a practical survival
guide for workplace learning professionals who face unique challenges in accomplishing their responsibilities. Several strategies and tactics are offered to organize the roles and responsibilities of the training function. There's authoritative advice, too, for managing the function including staff management, communicating expectations, setting the learning agenda, coaching subject matter experts, hiring consultants and vendors, managing content, working with learning portals, setting up and managing a learning resource center, marketing and building internal support for training, and integrating learning into the business.
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Managing the Training Function For Bottom Line Results: Tools, Models and Best Practices
The Art of Great Training Delivery:
Strategies, Tools, and Tactics
by Jean Barbazette
This is a new book in The Skilled Trainer series which provides
practical guidance for those who've had some exposure to training and would like to take their career to the next level. This book is intended to help beginning trainers move their training and facilitation skills to the next level. It offers practical advice--and dozens of examples--on selecting and using a variety of training methods to create the best learning experience and improve learner retention.
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The Art of Great Training Delivery: Strategies, Tools, and Tactics
The Trainer's Journey To Competence:
Tools, Assessments and Models
by Jean Barbazette
The Trainer’s Journey to Competence draws on Jean Barbazette’s thirty-five years of experience in training trainers. The book serves
as both a useful source of career advice for those in the training field, and as a starting point for creating a role-specific professional development plan. Professional trainers can use this resource to assess their knowledge, skills, and attitudes and use this information to create an individual development plan. The book can be equally helpful when creating internal training certification programs for organizations.
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The Trainer's Journey to Competence: Tools, Assessments, and Models
Instant Case Studies...
How to Design, Adapt, and
Use Case Studies in Training
by Jean Barbazette
If you want to improve learning retention, create discovery learning, make training interactive, increase participation and make training fun...this book is for you! In this easy-to-use resource, author and
training expert Jean Barbazette gives you 71 case studies to use instantly or modify to meet your specific learning needs. She defines the five types of case studies and their different purposes, shows the benefits of using case studies, and offers clear-cut suggestions for writing your own original case studies or customizing existing case studies. Barbazette also offers step-by-step instructions for processing each case study to maximizing the potential for learning. In addition, all of the 71 case studies and discusses questions in the second half of this book are contained on the book's companion CD-ROM for your use. Answers to all case study questions are provided in the book.
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Instant Case Studies: How to Design, Adapt, and Use Case Studies in Training
The Barbazette Set
by Jean Barbazette
This set includes the following books:
- The Art of Great Training Delivery: Strategies, Tools, and Tactics
- The Trainer's Journey to Competence: Tools, Assessments, and Models
- Training Needs Assessment: Methods, Tools, and Techniques
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Barbazette's Trainers Set
SUCCESSFUL NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION, 3rd edition
by Jean Barbazette
This third edition of the proven guide includes innovative ideas,
program outlines, and interactive activities to engage, energize, and motivate your new employees and lay the foundation for their success in your organization. Flexible and fully customizable materials can be used in a variety of ways from designing a program from the ground up to adding zest to an existing program.
Successful New Employee Orientation: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing, Facilitating, and Evaluating Your Program , 3rd Edition