The New Fieldbook for Trainers


Tips, Tools, and Techniques
John E. Jones, Ph.D. , William L. Bearley, Ed.D. , Douglas C. Watsabaugh


This innovative book is a gold mine of field-tested principles, activities, instruments, and designs. The materials will help you produce high impact training to support performance improvement initiatives for individuals and teams. Everything is reproducible and even customizable using the word processing files provided on disk. More than 60 tools, activities, and designs are included. One look through this fieldbook, and you'll agree that it is the most directly beneficial collection of tools for trainers ever assembled under one cover.

Selected Contents
  1. Training Principles and Methods
    Involving Participants
    Processing Learning
    Classroom Management
    Facilitating Meetings
    Trainer Development
  2. Training Instruments
    Training Needs Assessment
    Team Commitment
    The Focus Group Sensing Scale
    Success Practices
    Problem Solving Tools: A Self Assessment
  3. High-Involvement Learning Activities
    Energizers
    Communications
    Problem Solving
    Teams
  4. High-Involvement Training Designs
    Principles of Adult Learning and Course Design
    Course-Design Resource Worksheet
    Training for Trainers
    Effective Presentation Skills
  5. Strategic Interventions
    Jones' Intervention Cube
    Team Development Models
    Training as a Strategic Intervention
    Evaluating Training Sessions
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