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Beyond telling aint training fieldbook methods, activities, and tools for effective workplace learning
A hands-on companion fieldbook that gives training professionals concrete tools, worksheets, and activities to move their organizations from information transmission ('telling') to genuine learner transformation ('training').
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What it’s about
Building on the popular Telling Ain't Training, this fieldbook answers the reader's demand for 'something more'—practical, ready-to-apply methods for institutionalizing learner-centered, performance-based workplace learning. Across 14 chapters it supplies assessments, task-analysis checklists, learner-analysis protocols, instructional-method selection tools, game-design templates, case-study recipes, debriefing models, testing decision tables, myth-busting guidance, video-practice-session systems, and support-network strategies. Written in the same breezy, icon-guided style as its predecessor, it treats the reader as a 'learner advocate' who must not only understand the principles but also act on them, individually and organizationally, to make training investments yield real performance returns.
The through-line
- Who it’s for
- A training or performance-improvement professional (or occasional trainer, SME, or training manager) who wants to make their workplace learning genuinely effective and valued.
- The problem
- Their organization's training still 'tells' information rather than transforming learners into competent performers, yielding poor returns on the learning investment. They feel frustrated and stuck—convinced of what good training should be, but unsure how to move to action or bring others aboard.
- The plan
- Assess yourself and your training organization on seven Telling Ain't Training dimensions.
- Analyze your learners and conduct performance-based task analyses.
- Match knowledge type to methods, design sessions with the five-step model, and build in retention strategies.
- Use games, cases, and debriefing; test correctly; and dispel training myths.
- Build internal and external support systems for ongoing growth and reassess progress regularly.
- The payoff
- Training that consistently transforms learners into valued performers. · A learner-centered, performance-based training organization with growing credibility. · Higher returns on learning investment and stronger stakeholder satisfaction.
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