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Needs Assessment for Organizational Success

This book offers a pragmatic, evidence-based approach for justifying results and proving success while serving individuals, your organization, and society.

Test Development: Fundamentals for Certification and Evaluation

Learn how to develop tests that accurately measure participants’ skills in the context of credentialing and program evaluation.

More Jolts!

In More Jolts! renowned trainer and game expert Thiagi and Tracy Tagliati offer a specialized type of learning game, specifically designed to help participants reexamine their assumptions and create change.

Leaving Addie for SAM: An Agile Model for Developing the Best Learning Experiences

Discover two new concepts that take instructional design beyond ADDIE and help you produce better, more effective learning products.

Informal Learning Basics

Informal Learning Basics will help training and development professionals leverage the power of informal learning in designing meaningful and cost-effective training programs and practices. By identifying informal learning experiences that happen every day on the job and suggesting ways to promote and facilitate those experiences, Informal Learning Basics provides you with the tools to capitalize on the informal learning opportunities which exist in your organization.

Real World Training Design: Navigating Common Constraints for Exceptional Results

As every learning and development professional knows, time, cost, and quality constraints are the obstacles encountered in developing any training project. Based on the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model, Real World Training Design will help you to identify and manage these issues while you create effective, productive training tools for your organization.

Measuring ROI in Learning & Development

How do you accurately and effectively measure return on investment(ROI) in training and performance improvement? Measuring ROI in Learning and Development, a new volumewith a focus on the international arena and including a selectionof case studies, provides detailed information on how to create,develop, and sustain a comprehensive ROI evaluation system. A focuson accountability in measuring ROI in learning and performanceimprovement programs has produced a book filled with functional,pragmatic suggestions and examples that can be implemented in thereal world.

The Learning and Development Book

Written for the experienced professional who lacks time and isjuggling many responsibilities, but who yearns to be more effectivewith their professional development programs, The L&DBook provides simple ideas and concepts which illustrate bestpractices for improving learning and development teaching skills.

Technical Training Basics

How do you train people in a specialized, complex subject area thatyou dont fully understand yourself?If youre an experienced trainer, training manager, contentdesigner, curriculum developer, or anyone else who creates courses,Technical Training Basics can help you tackle this challengehead-on. With this book as your guide, you can understand andnavigate the process of creating effective technical trainingprograms in partnership with a subject matter expert.

Telling Ain't Training, 2nd Edition

Chockfull of myth-busting research and ready-to-use tools, anddelivered in a lighthearted and entertaining style, the updated,expanded, and enhanced second edition of Telling Aint Training setsnew standards for the training industry.