Training & Development For Dummies, 2ed
ISBN: 9789357460378
464 pages
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Description
Training & Development For Dummies 2nd Edition guides training professionals through the process of training and maintaining employee skills for a successful workforce. The ways of onboarding and training employees have evolved over the years. Get the inside scoop on digital and hybrid training, developing a new generation of workers, and following up for continuous development. Dummies is the best guide for giving professional trainers confidence in their roles.
Foreword
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: So You're Going to Be a Trainer
Chapter 1: Exploring Training and Talent Development
- Introducing the Exciting Role of Training
- Learning happens all the time
- Understanding why training is necessary
- Learning is essential to career advancement
- Training isn't just for business
- Discovering What Trainers Do
- Assessing your training potential
- Taking stock of your skills
- Scoring your self-assessment
- How do you become a trainer?
- Exploring the Terminology of Talent Development
- Who's who?
- What's what?
- Experiencing the Advent of the Talent Development Role
- Merging training and talent development
- Realizing the many hats worn by a st century
- TD professional
- Determining whether you have what it takes
Chapter 2: How Adults Learn
- Learning About Adult Learning Theory
- Meeting Malcolm Knowles
- Applying adult learning theory to training
- Understanding How People Learn
- The science of learning
- Three types of learning: KSAs
- What we know for sure about how we learn
- Brain-based learning: It's a no-brainer
- The growth mindset
- The -- learning framework
- Ensuring That Adults Learn in the Classroom, Online