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Lead employees to independence and maximize the advantages of employees committed to self-directed learning.

Learning has increasingly become the responsibility of individuals, yet organizations often provide little direct support for their new self-directed learners. Use employee development strategies that will enable employees to meet workplace challenges, build and use a knowledge network, and grow and sustain an independent learning culture within your organization.

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Efficacité professionnelle

Efficacité

Business

Economics

Training

Employabilité, métiers et formations

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Publié par	Association for Talent Development
Date de parution	01 avril 2000
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781607284963
Langue	English

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© 2010 Robert W. Lucas All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, please write to ASTD Rights & Permissions, ASTD Press, Box 1443, Alexandria, VA 22313‐2043.
ASTD Press is an internationally renowned source of insightful and practical information on workplace learning and performance topics, including training basics, evaluation and return‐on‐investment, instructional systems development, e‐learning, leadership, and career development.
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Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Assessing and Addressing Learners’ Needs 5 Suggestions for Identifying Learner Needs 13 Methods for Giving Learners What They Want or Need 10 Ways to Address Learner Expectations
Chapter 2 Creating Memorable Events 9 Approaches to Building Powerful Learning Events 6 Important Scheduling Considerations 14 Creative Ideas for Saving Classroom Time
Chapter 3 Developing Powerful Learning Aids 6 Techniques for Using LowTech Training Aids 14 Creative Ways to Work with Flip Charts 7 Tips for Designing Stimulating Handouts 6 Ideas for Boosting the Power of Slides 9 Suggestions for Training with Video Clips
Chapter 4 Creating a Stimulating Environment 4 Ways to Organize Your Room for Maximum Effectiveness 12 Tips for Adding Color to a Room 9 Approaches to Using Music in Training 8 Creative Ways to Enhance the Learning Environment
Chapter 5 Starting with a Bang! 4 Tricks for Using Novelty to Introduce Yourself and Your Topic 7 Tips for Facilitating Learner Interaction 8 Tactics for Gaining and Holding Learner’s Attention
Chapter 6 Connecting with Learners 8 Strategies for Building Trust with Learners 9 Tactics for Effective Verbal Communication 10 Techniques for Harnessing Powerful Nonverbal Cues 16 Means of Using Questioning Effectively 11 Strategies for Providing Feedback to Learners
Chapter 7 Getting Learners’ Brains in Gear 12 Ways to Aid Information Processing 22 Strategies for Tapping into Learning Modalities 8 Strategies for Tapping Various Intelligences
Chapter 8 Engaging Your Learners 7 Ways to Get Learners Involved in the Action 12 Tips for Using Energizers to Stimulate Learners 13 Strategies for Adding Props to Your Presentation
Chapter 9 Keeping It Positive 8 Strategies for Making a Positive First Impression 7 Approaches for Demonstrating a Positive Attitude 6 Ways to Create a Positive Atmosphere 6 Means of Closing Sessions on a Positive Note
Chapter 10 Managing Unique Groups and Individuals 5 Strategies for Dealing with New Generations of Learners 9 Strategies for Communicating with CrossCultural Learners 5 Ways to Assist Learners with Special Needs 6 Techniques to Engage Quiet Learners 5 Means of Restraining Class Clowns 6 Tips for Quieting Chatty Learners 7 Tactics for Handling Experts or KnowItAlls 5 Methods of Handling Inconsiderate Learners 7 Procedures for Dealing with Domineering Learners 5 Strategies for Working with Mature Learners
Chapter 11 Reinforcing Learning Through Review and Repetition 4 Ideas for Reviewing Key Learning Concepts 8 Activities That Use Props for Content Review 4 Ways to Validate Learning and Close the Session
Chapter 12 Transferring Learning to the Job 12 Strategies That Lead to Learning Transfer 10 Methods for Enhancing Learning Transfer 12 Ways to Involve Supervisors in the Learning Transfer Process 9 Techniques That Reinforce Learning on the Job
Chapter 13 Evaluating Training Results 8 Ways to Monitor Learners’ Feelings During Training 5 Options for Tracking Learners’ Progress
Appendix A: Applying Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory of Motivation to Training
Appendix B: Creative Strategies for Selecting Volunteers
Appendix C: Creatively Grouping Participants
Resources
About the Author
Index
During almost four decades spent designing, developing, and delivering learning events, I’ve researched and written about many workplace learning issues that are pertinent to the rapidly changing workforce. The world of training continues to evolve as our learners do. For the first time, there are four active generational groups of people in the typical workplace. In addition, there are people from around the world who often come together in a learning event, each with their cultural perspectives related to what a trainer should do and how learning should occur. Add to this mix the influx of technologybased learning concepts, and you suddenly find that, as the character Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz said, “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” In effect, the rules are different, the people are different, and the environment is different. All of this means that you also must be different and look for new ways to inspire, inform, and encourage your learners, no matter what type of learning environment you use.
That is why I wrote this book. It provides a smorgasbord of proven ideas, strategies, and techniques that you can use to enhance your approach to adult learning and to engage and support your learners while making the environment more upbeat, fun, and functional.
No matter whether you’re a novice trainer or instructor looking for additional ideas to expand your knowledge related to adult learning, or a more seasoned one looking for reminders or different approaches to addressing common situations in the learning environment, there is something in this book for you.
As trainers and educators in search of resources to enhance your learning environment, you have thousands of books to choose from each year. Many of the books focus on how to design, develop, and deliver effective training programs for a variety of organizational types and topics. Others provide bits and pieces of concepts that may help improve learning in the classroom or encourage the posttraining transfer of knowledge and skills to the workplace. This book addresses all of those topics, offering a resource for creating learning events that will help you assist learners in gaining, retaining, recalling, and applying what they learn; and helping make you a training success story. It does this by taking a creative approach to an old topic. Instead of simply saying, “Here are some tips for you to consider,” it ties together concepts related to learner motivation, communication, and effective training strategies. In these pages, you will find classroomtested approaches to creating learnercentric training events that are interactive, effective, dynamic, and fun!
Using the techniques, tips, and strategies presented here, you can develop and deliver training programs that will stimulate your learners’ brains, aid their retention and recall of newly acquired knowledge and skills, promote the transfer of learning to their workplaces, add value for them and their organizations, and increase training returnoninvestment. In a short period of time, you will be applying strategies and techniques that master trainers have been using for years.
Take the journey now to enhanced training knowledge and skills. Turn the page and discover how to start helping your learners master any training topic.
Acknowledgments
Like many trainers and consultants, I have spent major portions of my life in the classroom, working with clients, and sitting at a computer. All of this has been possible because of the support of my wife, friend, and life partner, M.J., and my mother, Rosie. They are the reason that you are able to read this book.
A special note of thanks to Christine Cotting, who struggled along with me to get this book into a format that will better benefit anyone reading it. Also, thanks to Tora Estep and Jacki EdlundBraun for their support in making this project a reality.
Bob Lucas April 2010
In the past two decades, researchers have made a number of discoveries about how various environmental and related factors in the classroom affect a learner’s ability to gain, retain, recall, and use what he or she experiences there—factors such as light, sound, color, odor, movement, novelty, and nutrition. They have identified where in the human brain visual and auditory messages are processed, which parts of the brain are involved when a new stimulus is encountered, and what path is taken as memories are formed. Trainers and educators now can use the lessons from this research to plan their approaches to content delivery. Designing training activities and environments that incorporate what we now understand about learning will enhance the value of your training programs. The research offers insights that you can use to develop valuable instruments and processes to add to your professional training facilitation toolbox.
Moving beyond the learning effects of environmental factors, we also know that tasks done often become more familiar and easier to accomplish over time. Thus, trainers and educators have built practice, repetition, and quizzes into their sessions to provide recurring opportunit