This is not your typical training book. You won’t find a traditional training-cycle outline or a classic training table of contents. Instead, this book pinpoints the key actions necessary to successful training and focuses on the elements with the most influence on bottom-line results. Throughout the book you’ll discover helpful, ready-to-use tools: worksheets, evaluation forms, tables, checklists, case studies, and reminders and suggestions.

Whether you’re a middle- or upper-level manager, or a workplace learning or human-resource professional, 10 Steps to Successful Training can provide you with options for enhancing the learning environment in your organization. Boost your success as a trainer and help others learn more effectively by investing in this essential guidebook today.

Elaine Biech is well versed in the art of getting the best from people in a wide range of organizations and environments. As president of ebb associates inc, she helps organizations work through large-scale change. Her background also includes an MS in human resource development, and extensive work facilitating and presenting topics such as organizational communication, effective listening, speaking skills, and time management.

Known as “the trainer’s trainer,” Biech custom designs training programs for managers, trainers, leaders, and consultants. She has written and edited dozens of books, including the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals, and been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Management Update, The Washington Post, and Fortune magazine.

With Biech as your guide, you’ll gain valuable insights into all aspects of becoming a successful trainer—and you’ll enjoy the experience, as well. While she delivers a thorough education in a logical and process-oriented way, her approach is creative and enthusiastic, laced with a subtle sense of humor. You simply couldn’t ask for a better trainer to take you through the 10 Steps to Successful Training.