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Sales enablement expert Mark Donnolo blends his years of experience with expert interviews and stories to show you how planning can reliably drive revenue. His five-point framework will prepare you to address the arguments you're certain to hear against account planning, such as lack of commitment, ownership, and time.

Leaders Open Doors presents a fresh and unique take on leadership that will benefit experienced leaders and those just starting their leadership journeys. With a little courage, anyone at any level can be a leader.

In Own Any Occasion: Mastering the Art of Speaking and Presenting, renowned speaker and educator Erik Palmer taps into his vast experience to simplify the process of extraordinary speaking. Palmer offers a tried-and-true approach and shows how to craft the perfect message, then captivate audiences with exceptional delivery.

Learning and leadership expert Lou Russell offers a structured approach to moving projects from conception to completion. In Project Management for Trainers, you'll discover how to maintain a clear focus on client goals no matter how many changes they request or how many people get involved. This refreshed second edition also guides you through managing consulting projects and suppliers.

Effective presentations are a core business competency. This book allows you to design presentation skills training for various levels and people in your organization. It enables you to customize training programs that can be designed for one-hour, a half day, one or two-day events, along with a guide to ensure that your program stays on task.

Bridges the gap between instructional design and game design. Experts Sharon Boller and Karl Kapp share real examples of in-person and online games, and offer an online game for you to try as you read. They walk you through evaluating entertainment and learning games, so you can apply the best to your own designs.

Tackles sustainability concerns head-on. Discover seven proven practices businesses use to ensure continuity in learning and development. Original case studies from the public and private sector put these practices into action, while self-assessments and job aids show you how to attain a sustainable mindset.

Whether you're trying to survive your first promotion or coaching executives who yearn to keep up with their field, essential guidelines for can-do leadership are inside this book. You'll find workplace examples that ring true, as well as unique strategies and tools that both help you identify your values and provide insight into your natural leadership style.

How people successfully land jobs has changed. You need help from a pro, someone who navigates career data, the labour market, and hot jobs with ease. You want a coach who will tell you what to pursue and what to avoid, and an expert who has mastered job-hunting and career change to offer wisdom gained from experience. What you need is a career coach. Better yet, several.

Lecturing on its own is ineffective. But what's the alternative? Use the easily replicable Cafeteria Learning model to combine the best of brain science and learning theory with the power of choice. Improve the retention and engagement of your learning programs. This book will show you how.

Rambling group discussions, tangential concerns, difficult attendees, and unclear objectives can all derail a facilitated event - and often do. Expert trainer and facilitator Kimberly Devlin has designed interactive half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops to develop the essential skills of facilitating meetings that inspire, engage, and get results.

How do I position a talent development business for lasting success?" is a question Stephen L. Cohen fields regularly. In his practice, he hears it posed countless times in countless ways by independent consultants, corporate executives, and training suppliers alike. Cohen fills The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Talent Development Firm with answers.

Microlearning - training delivered in short bursts - can provide the just-in-time learning employees need. Microlearning to Boost the Employee Experience explains how to build a microlearning library to promote effective workplace training. Author Elise Greene Margol shares why microlearning is valuable and provide tips for creating suitable content for a microlibrary.

Successful organisations are proactive about change and can turn obstacles into opportunities. In Change Management Training, master trainer and innovator Elaine Biech presents a complete lineup of workshop resources and tools needed to conduct effective change management training.

Discover how top facilitators always put learners first, even when faced with exceptions to the rule-the unwilling learner, the uninformed supervisor, the inappropriate delivery medium, or the unmanageable performance challenge. And learn why you must understand people, not content, to ensure consistently exceptional learning experiences.

Veteran trainer and author Jonathan Halls uses his experience running the BBC's prestigious production training department to help even the smallest learning team dazzle. Whether you need to build a training program, blend your offerings, or flip your classroom, this book will help you make learning dynamic with rapid media techniques.

A timely update to a timeless model.Don Kirkpatrick's groundbreaking Four Levels of Training Evaluation is the most widely used training evaluation model in the world. Ask any group of trainers whether they rely on the model's four levels Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results in their practice, and you'll get an enthusiastic affirmation.But how many variations of Kirkpatrick are in use today? And what number of misassumptions and faulty practices have crept in over 60 years? The reality is: Quite a few.James and Wendy Kirkpatrick have written Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation to set the record straight. Delve into James and Wendy's new findings that, together with Don Kirkpatrick's work, create the New World Kirkpatrick Model, a powerful training evaluation methodology that melds people with metrics. In Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation, discover a comprehensive blueprint for implementing the model in a way that truly maximizes your business's results. Using these innovative concepts, principles, techniques, and case studies, you can better train people, improve the way you work, and, ultimately, help your organization meet its most crucial goals.

Project management delivers results that organisations of every size and industry need. Trainer and strategic global advisor Wes Balakian has created highly effective two-day, one-day, and half-day workshops that take the guesswork out of project management training. Hit the ground running with complete programs and all the materials you'll need to deliver them.

Human Performance Improvement (HPI) is a growing area of expertise among workplace learning professionals. This book provides a basic guide for those with little or no background in HPI and includes examples, checklists, and other tools to aid in understanding as you move along the path to becoming a valued HPI practitioner in your organization.

For those who have to design new employee orientation programs at the organizational or departmental level, this guide aims to make the process much easier and help you solve the most common challenges you are likely to face. It includes customizable PowerPoint[trademark] presentation slides to help expedite your new employee training.

Shows you how to elevate the most important content from an endless sea of learning information and offers strategies to better connect with your audience. Using case studies and relevant examples, eight curation experts share tips and best practices for creating a curation strategy and collecting content that is relevant to your learning communities.

Go from order-taker to valued performance consultant. You may be pressured to give an immediate ¿yes¿ to a training request. Resist. Instead, start playing an essential role in driving your organization forward by using needs assessment to target your training programs to support critical business goals. Organizations need staff to be efficient and effective. That calls for training programs that get to the core of performance issues. A needs assessment ensures that you understand the root of problems like knowledge gaps, performance issues, and product quality and gives you the tools to resolve them. This second edition of Needs Assessment Basics starts with the initial training request and guides you all the way through data collection and making training recommendations. A progressive case study illustrates the seven phases of a needs assessment plan to reinforce each chapter¿s content. Part of ATD¿s Training Basics series, Needs Assessment Basics will help you develop a foundation that will ensure the training programs you design and deliver will help the organization succeed.

Explains how fear, laziness, and resignation can keep employees from reaching their potential, even when they want to improve. The authors discuss how provocative coaching - or ""playing the devil's advocate while being on the side of the angels"" - can help people get past the feelings that are blocking them from making a positive change.

Over the course of a decade, positive psychology authority Dr. Beth Cabrera has surveyed and interviewed more than a thousand women to gather insight into how to effectively balance career and family responsibilities. Beyond Happy gathers essential findings and offers women proven strategies for living more authentic, meaningful lives.

Presents seven simple paths to an effective relationship between managers and staff. Each path offers management wisdom that focuses on action, not position, and inspires others to do their best work. Expressly written for middle managers, this step-by-step guide covers principles evaluated and fine-tuned over the course of several decades.