Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Successful Workshops and Training Programs

Klatt, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0079136990 ISBN 13: 9780079136992

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1999

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to leading a training session or workshop. It aims to answer every "how to" question for beginner and experienced trainers and for every step in the process of planning, preparing and leading a workshop; it offers reproducible checklists, forms and questionnaires.

About this title

About the Author

Bruce Klatt (Calgary, Canada; www.murphyklatt.com) is a senior partner in Murphy Klatt Consulting, Inc. specializing in accountability and alignment, strategic alliancing and organizational effectiveness.

From the Back Cover

An amazing reference covering every aspect of leading a training program or workshopÑBruce Klatt's The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook was written for those who want to excel as trainers, and to offer maximum value both to client/employers and workshop participants. Focusing on success in front of the group and based on Klatt's 25 years of experience, this comprehensive guide takes you from the contracting stage through evaluating results. It shows you how to prepare yourself and your clients, and how to construct the workshop itself. You'll discover how to:
Contract with clients, participants, and yourself to ensure focus and agreement on purpose and goals; Develop high-energy, more participant-oriented workshops using state-of-the-art methods, models, and techniques; Use natural learning and deep learning techniques, visual aids, and other up-to-date methods; Get workshops started with energy and enthusiasm focusing on learning readiness, participation readiness, and learning climate; Motivate and maintain interest as workshops progress, including working with questions; leading exercises, simulations, and subgroup activities; using humor; and developing methods for staying on track and even refocusing when necessary; Manage participation problems such as under-, over-, and aggressive participation; Co-lead, present, reinforce, evaluate, and follow up on training program and workshop success.
Whether you're developing a new workshop based on your special expertise...polishing and adding sparkle to existing workshop skills...or refreshing and recharging many years of professional experienceÑthis comprehensive, skill- and tip-filled guide delivers not just training theory but techniques that work. The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook is the most complete, thoughtful, and well-organized manual on training workshops ever written.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0079136990
• ISBN 13: 9780079136992
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 538