Product Description

A one-stop source of professional answers on training workshopsÑBruce Klatt's The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook was written for those who want to excel and succeed at workshops, offering maximum value both to client/employers and to workshop participants. Focusing on success in front of the group and based on Klatt's 25 years of experience, this comprehensive guide shows you how to prepare yourself, your clients, and the workshop itself. 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 experience ... an insider or a consultant ... working a full-time job or a one-time consulting engagementÑthis comprehensive, skill- and tip-filled guide delivers not just theory but methods proven by years of experience. The most complete, thoughtful, and well-organized manual on training workshops ever written, The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook really is exactly that!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149720 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 538 pages

Synopsis
An amazing reference covering every aspect of leading a training program or workshop - Bruce 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 latt's 25 years of experience, this comprehensive guide takes you from the contracting stage through evaluating results. It shows you prepare yourself and your clients, and how to construct the workshop.

You'll discover how to: contract with clients, participants, and yourself to ensure agreement on purpose and goals; develop h-energy, participant-oriented workshops using state-of-the-art methods, models, and techniques; use natural learning and deep learning techniques, visual aids, and other important training tools; get workshops started with energy and enthusiasm; lead exercises, simulations, and subgroup activities; use humor; and develop methods or staying on track or changing the workshop design mid-stream; manage participation problems such as under-, over-, and aggressive participation; reinforce, evaluate, and follow up on training program and workshop success.Whether you're developing a new workshop based on your special expertise, polishing existing workshop skills, or recharging years of training experience, this comprehensive, skill-tip-filled guide delivers not just training theory but techniques that work. The "Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook" is the most complete, thoughtful, and useful manual on training workshops ever published.

From the Back Cover
An amazing reference covering every aspect of leading a training program or workshop--Bruce 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 latt's 25 years of experience, this comprehensive guide takes you from the contracting stage through evaluating results. It shows you prepare yourself and your clients, and how to construct the workshop. You'll discover how to: contract with clients, participants, and yourself to ensure agreement on purpose and goals; develop h-energy, participant-oriented workshops using state-of-the-art methods, models, and techniques; use natural learning and deep learning techniques, visual aids, and other important training tools; get workshops started with energy and enthusiasm; lead exercises, simulations, and subgroup activities; use humor; and develop methods or staying on track or changing the workshop design mid-stream; manage participation problems such as under-, over-, and aggressive participation; reinforce, evaluate, and follow up on training program and workshop success. Whether you're developing a new workshop based on your special expertise, polishing existing workshop skills, or recharging years of training experience, this comprehensive, skill- t ip-filled guide delivers not just training theory but techniques that work. The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook is the most complete, thoughtful, and useful manual on training workshops ever published.

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.

Customer Reviews

A must for people in the workshop business!
"Ultimate" and "comprehensive" are the key words in the title that set this handbook apart from the others. They say it all - over 600 pages of checklists, diagrams, models, and examples covering every topic of the workshop business. And you are given permission to copy pages for personal workshop use! When paging through the book I began to play a game - he must have missed something! Well, whatever it is, I'm still looking...