Creating Training Miracles

Create your own training miracles!

Discover training techniques that produce extraordinaryresults--training miracles! With the right tools and training,everyone has the ability to learn. And to be a successful trainer,you yourself need to continue learning. Explore emerging trAnds intraining such as globalization, competency-based training, andhigh-tech delivery of training.

Each chapter introduces you to a different training method, andopens with a story to actually demonstrate how the techniqueworks.

Learn all about:
* Getting Training Results in the Workplace
* Competency-Based Training
* Self-Directed Learning
* Using Icebreakers and Energizers to Warm Up Learners
* Neurolinguistic Programming
* The Power of Accelerative Learning
* Successful Role-Playing Techniques
* Designing and Using Classic Case Studies
* Organizing Outdoor Learning Programs
* Facilitation . . . and more!

Select only the topics that interest you. Want to learn moreabout a particular training technique? Every chapter contains asummary and list of references for further reading andresearch.

Discover cutting-edge, exciting techniques and create trainingprograms that produce amazing results! About the Authors.

Preface.

Emerging Trends in Training.

Getting Training Results in the Workplace.

Self Directed Learning.

Stoking the Fire: Warming Up the Learner with Icebreakers andEnergizers.

Neurolinguistic Programming.

The Power of Accelerative Learning.

Successful Role Playing Techniques.

Designing and Using Classic Case Studies.

Adventures in Paradise: How to Organize an Outdoor LearningProgram.

A Pilot's Guide to Facilitation.

Reaching for the Stars.

Appendix 1: Chapter 5: Examples of Icebreakers andEnergizers.

Appendix 2: Chapter 6: Suggested Answers to Exercises.

Appendix 3: Chapter 10: Some Outdoor Activities.

Appendix 4: Chapter 10: Outdoor Learning Checklist.

INDEX. ALASTAIR RYLATT is acknowledged as an expert internationaltrainer, strategist, and award-winning author in workplacelearning, advanced training skills, and change management. He isthe director of Excel Human Resource Development in Sydney,Australia.

KEVIN LOHAN is a director of Endeavour Training andDevelopment in New South Wales, Australia. He coestablished theNational Institute for Trainers and Assessors (NITA) in 1995. Someof his clients have included BHP, Coca-Cola, Coopers & Lybrand,and Philips Australia. Both authors live in Australia. explains how trainers can use different training techniques to produce extraordinary results ("training miracles"). The authors have a true enthusiasm for helping people to learn and a belief that all people can learn. The first chapter discusses emerging trAnds in training (e.g., globalization, competency-based training, high-tech delivery of training). The remaining chapters each discuss a different technique or technology that a trainer can use (see TOC). Each chapter begins with a story to help illustrate how the technique might be used. Chapters also contain a summary and a list of references for people who want to read further on the topic.