101 Learning and Development Tools: Essential Techniques for Creating, Delivering and Managing Effective Training

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Paperback
2011
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101 Learning and Development Tools is your practical guide to all the most up-to-date training techniques, organized around the classic learning and development cycle. Whether you need a quick, ready solution or some guidance on where to go for in-depth information, this is your essential reference guide. It picks up from where you are in the process of managing learning, and helps you place it in a broader context. Each chapter is a mini guide to each tool with: a description of the tool analysis resources needed cost implications cross-references to help you identify alternative or related tools for further study or investigation 101 Learning and Development Tools is the indispensable, all-in-one-volume reference book for both professionals in the field and students learning about the subject.

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101 Learning and Development Tools is your practical guide to all the most up-to-date training techniques, organized around the classic learning and development cycle. Whether you need a quick, ready solution or some guidance on where to go for in-depth information, this is your essential reference guide. It picks up from where you are in the process of managing learning, and helps you place it in a broader context. Each chapter is a mini guide to each tool with: a description of the tool analysis resources needed cost implications cross-references to help you identify alternative or related tools for further study or investigation 101 Learning and Development Tools is the indispensable, all-in-one-volume reference book for both professionals in the field and students learning about the subject.

$38.79

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 03 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 074946108X
ISBN 13: 9780749461089
Book Overview: It provides a broad range of L&D techniques. Anyone responsible for managing, designing and delivering training will be able to use the book to find new inspiration, gain better understanding of certain tools/models, get examples of best practice and find further advice.

Media Reviews

101 Learning and Development Tools is an extremely practical and comprehensive collection of the tools and techniques needed to design and deliver training interventions. -Neil Roden, former HR Director, RBS
Kenneth Fee has succeeded in an ambitious task: to produce an up-to-date snapshot of the tools in use for training and learning in organizations. Everyone would learn something new from reading this comprehensive and accessible book. -Martyn Sloman, Visiting Professor, Kingston Business School, Kingston University
This guide will help HR managers, trainers, and professionals in organization development, change management, talent management and personnel development. The 101 training techniques are described in 2-3 page entries overviewing each technique's main ideas and associated costs. Entries also provide cross references to related tools and list print resources. The 101 techniques are grouped in sections on learning needs analysis and on planning, implem

101 Learning and Development Tools is an extremely practical and comprehensive collection of the tools and techniques needed to design and deliver training interventions. --Neil Roden, former HR Director, RBS

Kenneth Fee has succeeded in an ambitious task: to produce an up-to-date snapshot of the tools in use for training and learning in organizations. Everyone would learn something new from reading this comprehensive and accessible book. --Martyn Sloman, Visiting Professor, Kingston Business School, Kingston University

This guide will help HR managers, trainers, and professionals in organization development, change management, talent management and personnel development. The 101 training techniques are described in 2-3 page entries overviewing each technique's main ideas and associated costs. Entries also provide cross references to related tools and list print resources. The 101 techniques are grouped in sections on learning needs analysis and on planning, implementing, and evaluating learning. Some entries describe frameworks [while] others give instructions for tasks such as planning a learning event, procuring learning services, preparing a lesson plan, conducting games and simulations, and keeping learning logs and contracts. Digital tools are described across sections, with entries on social networking and collaborative tools, phases and models of e-learning, and choosing a digital learning platform.
--Book News, Inc.

101 Learning and Development Tools is an extremely practical and comprehensive collection of the tools and techniques needed to design and deliver training interventions. --Neil Roden, former HR Director, RBS

Kenneth Fee has succeeded in an ambitious task: to produce an up-to-date snapshot of the tools in use for training and learning in organizations. Everyone would learn something new from reading this comprehensive and accessible book. --Martyn Sloman, Visiting Professor, Kingston Business School, Kingston University

This guide will help HR managers, trainers, and professionals in organization development, change management, talent management and personnel development. The 101 training techniques are described in 2-3 page entries overviewing each technique's main ideas and associated costs. Entries also provide cross references to related tools and list print resources. The 101 techniques are grouped in sections on learning needs analysis and on planning, implementing, and evaluating learning. Some entries describe frameworks [while] others give instructions for tasks such as planning a learning event, procuring learning services, preparing a lesson plan, conducting games and simulations, and keeping learning logs and contracts. Digital tools are described across sections, with entries on social networking and collaborative tools, phases and models of e-learning, and choosing a digital learning platform.
--Book News, Inc.

Author Bio

Kenneth Fee has worked in learning and development for 25 years, as a trainer, consultant, manager, and writer, among other roles. He has an MA degree in social science, an MBA, certificates in training and in assessment, a professional diploma in training management, and he is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD and a Fellow of CMI.