The ultimate training workshop handbook : a comprehensive guide to leading successful workshops & training programs

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    • Klatt, Bruce

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The ultimate training workshop handbook : a comprehensive guide to leading successful workshops & training programs

Bruce Klatt

McGraw-Hill, c1999

  • : hb
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 580-591) and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780070382015

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Yourself Ready - Preparing to Lead: Building a Foundation for Leadership.Learning Habits, and Levels of Knowledge.Part II: Getting Your Clients Ready - Defining Success: Investigating Needs and Planning a Workshop.Planning to Evaluate a Workshop.Contracting Outcomes and Marketing Prior to Start-Up.Part III: Getting the Workshop Ready - Planning to Achieve: Designing a Workshop.Organizing a Workshop.Preparing and Using Visual Aids.Conditions for Workshop Success.Part IV: Getting Underway - Starting-Up a Workshop.First Steps in Starting-Up a Workshop.Contracting Group Process During Start-Up.Part V: Getting It Done - Leading a Workshop.Moving, Adapting and Ending a Workshop.Working with Questions.Involving Motivating, and Maintaining Interest.Presenting, Facilitating, and Leading.Managing Participation in a Workshop.
Volume

: hb ISBN 9780079136992

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Getting yourself ready - preparing to lead: building a foundation for leadership
  • learning, habits and levels of knowledge. Part 2 Getting your clients ready - defining success: investigating needs and planning a workshop
  • planning to evaluate a workshop
  • contracting outcomes and marketing prior to start-up. Part 3 Getting the workshop ready - planning to achieve: designing a workshop
  • organizing a workshop
  • preparing and using visual aids
  • conditions for workshop success. Part 4 Getting underway - starting-up a workshop
  • first steps in starting-up a workshop
  • contracting group process during start-up. Part 5 Presenting, facilitating and leading: managing participation in a workshop.

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