Training Topic: Trainer Skills   Web www.trainingprogateway.com - Links to Case-Studies and Articles - Lists and Discussion Groups - Recommended Reading     Links to Case-Studies and Articles Title Description A whole set of training tips on Technical and General training From Pete Blair 16/June/05 Survey shows how to stop annoying audience with bad powerpoint 15/May/05 What is On-The-Job Training and delivering it effectively15/May/05 Creating an Instructor kit 15/May/05 Ten Commandments of client presentations short, sharp and useful when you find yourself wandering!15/May/05 An essay In Defense of Powerpoint 15/May/05 Tips for Trainers continually updated in soundbite(?) format15/May/05 Training Programme Evaluation  excellent article on same with a lot of tool links15/May/05 Instructional Design Project Management: Although this is a content of a book, it signals all the main considerations15/May/05 Classroom design principles To improve teaching and learning - good points, focused on academia, but just as relevant for other organisations15/May/05 Classroom guidelines and specifications Excellent resource15/May/05 Instructional System design a handbook for trainers  from a gentleman know as "big dog"15/May/05 Classrooms or E-learning? Instructors remain central 15/May/05 Evaluation and Kirkpatrick from Big Dogs guide to evaluation15/May/05 Blooms Taxonomy useful for training design and evaluation 15/May/05 An overview of Training and Development for new Trainers, Managers etc.15/May/05 Training Analysis From Don Clark, a fast fire set of thoughts/guidelines15/May/05 Design tools for trainers  to aid in the process of Instructional system design. Very useful.15/May/05 Short, sharp list on Motivating learners so they want to learn 15/May/05 Visual aids and metaphors for presenting/training 15/May/05 Kolbs Learning Styles explained 15/May/05 Some free games for you to use on your training15/May/05 Arousal and Learning interesting article around ensuring your targets are at once awake and not stressed out!15/May/05 Telling Stories Use of story-telling in presentations and training15/May/05 Changing someone elses behaviour: Factors to Consider - an article based around Force-field analysis15/May/05 Good overview "how-to" on training and developing people15/May/05 Course evaluations that matter 15/May/05 NLP and DHE (Neuro-Linguistic Prorgamming and Design Human Engineering) - stuff that all presenters should be aware of.15/May/05 Microsoft's Powerpoint homepage  all stuff for sale/add-ons from Microsoft. Would be useful if they actually offered pointers/resources to presenters15/May/05 Training Media Review a newsletter/magazine that gives unbiased reviews of media-based training products - costs money, but some stuff for free15/May/05 A Trainers toolbox of Templates etc. from Big Dog 15/May/05 Big Dogs ISD (Instructional System Design) Page contains a lot of training process info 15/May/05 A listing of Presentation Tool Vendors from CLO Magazine15/May/05 Back to Top     Lists and Discussion Groups Title Description TRDEV is a place for people to discuss training and development issues in a professional, non-commercial, collegial forum--topics related to training, learning, and performance, from the specific to the general. 15/May/05 CIPD (UK) - Learning and Development Discussion board Non-members can view 15/May/05 Back to Top     Recommended Reading Title Description  "Telling Ain't Training" Very useful in a "Train the Subject-Matter Expert as Trainer" environment  "The ASTD Handbook of Training Design and Delivery" Comprehensive and useful  "Project Management for Trainers" Practical - cuts across most aspects of Training design to delivery to evaluation  "101 Ways to Make Training Active" Useful and practical  "ISD from the Ground Up" Good overview and how-to of Instructional System Design  "Running Training Like a Business: Delivering Unmistakeable Value" Highly-descriptive title, comes highly recommended  "How to measure Training Results:A Practical Guide to Tracking the 6 Key Indicators" A good set of doable ideas - set out in a very understandable framework  "Technology-Based Training: The Art and Science of Design, Development and Delivery" Looks at the wider aspects of CBT and WBT  "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" This is probably the best "time management" book I have come across. I have used it as very useful input into Time Management, Personal Productivity and Project Management Workshops. "Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Powerpoint to Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate and Inspire" Beyond "Listitis": Moving your powerpoint into Storyland for impact  "The Trainers Support Handbook" Touches on most topics of interest to the Trainer and Training Administration  "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook" A well-known set of tools around change, group dynamics and working in a Systems-Thinking manner.     Back to Top

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