High-Impact Training Solutions: Top Issues Troubling Trainers

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Training and development professionals are faced with a host of responsibilities and goals that can be met only if they integrate the latest thinking in the field with their own experience and thereby develop a new arsenal of skills and knowledge. The contributors to this volume, all of whom have extensive professional, consulting, and/or research experience in the training field, thoroughly examine the leading training issues by speaking straightforwardly to the training practitioner. These issues include the strategic linkage of training to business objectives, the determination of training needs, transfer of training, training technologies, holistic training and development, and the multiple roles of the professional trainer. The contributors provide the training and development professional with pertinent frameworks, revealing examples and real-life cases, specific recommendations, and various application ideas. References are provided throughout to support key findings, to point the reader toward the most promising and relevant training research, and to provide a comprehensive resource base that would be a valuable addition to any trainer's personal library. In addition to external and internal training professionals, students and instructors of human resource management, instructional systems technology, and industrial/organizational psychology will benefit from the contributors' insights.

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"Lisa Burke has aptly recognized the development needs of a professional trainer. In her book, High Impact Training Solutions, she and five contributing authors have identified the areas that are most challenging, not only to trainers but to all persons concerned with the performance of employees at work."-Scott B. Parry, Ph.D. Chairman Training House, Inc.
"This edited volume delivers on its promise to delve into the leading training issues of today in a straightforward and innovative way. The chapters provide trainers with a number of valuable strategies, techniques, and methods to improve training relevance, meet training needs, and enhance training effectiveness. The recommendations are backed up by the work of these experienced training professionals as well as from cutting-edge research."-J. Kevin Ford Professor Michigan State University
.,."this is an interesting book, and carries the reader along...If you have a training department staff that can't seem to find its place in the organization, or lacks a clear understanding of its role in furthering organizational objectives, have them get this book."-Personnel Psychology
...this is an interesting book, and carries the reader along...If you have a training department staff that can't seem to find its place in the organization, or lacks a clear understanding of its role in furthering organizational objectives, have them get this book.-Personnel Psychology
..."this is an interesting book, and carries the reader along...If you have a training department staff that can't seem to find its place in the organization, or lacks a clear understanding of its role in furthering organizational objectives, have them get this book."-Personnel Psychology

Author Bio

LISA A. BURKE is Assistant Professor of Management at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, where she teaches management principles, organization theory and design, training and development, and staffing to MBA students and undergraduates./e She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resource Management.