Product Description

Updated for the sixth edition, this text provides a critical overview of the national training framework and discusses the practical aspects of assessing needs, planning, implementing and evaluating training. All these themes include exercises, cases and suggestions for further reading. Topics covered include: the significant emphasis on learning rather than training in today's world; the importance of role management; an analysis of the whole management debate; the growing emphasis on self-managed learning and competence-based assessment; and cost-benefit analysis of training, benchmarking and the learning organization.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110648 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 395 pages

From the Back Cover
Introduction to Training offers an invaluable overview of all the
activities and functions of training. It also provides useful insights into
the skills and competencies needed by everyone involved in training. It
covers:
- starting out - identifying business, departmental and individual training
needs
- preparing the ground - understanding how competency frameworks and
performance indicators help to establish clear learning objectives
- getting going - designing releant programmes, choosing learning methods,
and delivering effective training sessions.
- checking progress - recording, monitoring and evaluating training
effectiveness
- looking ahead - the changing role of the trainer as coach,
self-development facilitator and performance improvement consultant
Here training is seen as an integral part of business improvement shared by
supervisors, managers and specialist training providers.

Customer Reviews

A useful source but can be difficult to read.
I'm a student studying for a business degree with HR modules and this book was on the recommended reading list. I have found the book to have a lot of useful information and provides a good source of background details. However, I have found the layout is not particularly user friendly as it is quite small print without many paragraphs or diagrams to assist in explanation. The summarys at the end of each chapter provide an excellent synopsis of the chapter. There are also questions which can be used to reinforce the knowledge learnt in the chapter.