Making Learning Stick: 20 Easy and Effective Techniques that Transfer Training - Softcover

Carnes, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562866796 ISBN 13: 9781562866792

Publisher: ATD Press, 2010

Synopsis

Training may be a pleasant break from the usual routine, but too often the long-term results are lacking. With Making Learning Stick, you'll have a practical handbook to help ensure that transfer of training happens, so that what people learn in class is actually applied on the job, where it counts. This easy-to-use guide and resource details 20 low-cost techniques to integrate education (TIEs), ranging from use of podcasts to involvement of training buddies. Serving as both a step-by-step guide and an ongoing resource, this book provides sample forms and examples, plus a complementary website with additional materials. Your training efforts can evolve into a way of life for your trainees, and your organization will reap the long-term results that indicate successful transfer of training.

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About the Author

Barbara Carnes has been a trainer for over thirty years, first as a corporate trainer for Sprint North Supply and later as a trainer and external consultant for Carnes and Associates, Inc., the company she founded in 1982. She holds a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from The Fielding Institute, where the title of her 1993 dissertation was: ""Training Transfer: An Exploration of the Factors Which Account for Behavior Change Following A Training Program."" She is the co-author of the book Making Training Stick and its companion Making Training Stick: A Training Transfer Field Guide. Barbara is a full professor on the practitioner faculty at Webster University where she teaches Human Resource Development graduate courses, and also teaches in the doctoral program for The University of Phoenix. She is a board member of the St. Louis chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and also for the Human Resource Management Association, a chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management. Barbara writes a monthly mini-newsletter, Sticky Notes, and regularly conducts train-the-trainer workshops and presentations. She lives in St. Louis, MO.

Edition details

• Publisher: ATD Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1562866796
• ISBN 13: 9781562866792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136