Teach Yourself Training (Teach Yourself General)

Teach Yourself Training is for managers who have been given responsibility for training and who need an overview of the whole subject so that they can assess the training needs within their organisation and then choose the appropriate solution.

In this book you will:

Get an overview of training and find out how you can decide what training will help your organisation

Find out whether your ideal training solution can be provided in-house or whether you should source it externally

Learn how to design and deliver a training event

Discover how to evaluate training

Teach Yourself Training looks at what benefits you should expect from your training, the different types of training that are available (both from external providers and in-house provision) and how to design and deliver an internal course including the use of visual aids to enhance presentation. You will also see how to evaluate the results of the training both during a training event and after so that you will be able to assess its effectiveness. Along the way, you will look at the presentation skills that you need to be able to deliver a course or seminar and also meet some of the learning types that you may come across on your journey towards becoming a trainer. There are lots of tips on topics such as presentation and creating visual aids plus sample forms for course assessment, revision tests and self-assessment.

The very first chapter will introduce you to the important topic of analysing the training needs of your organisation and will help you to make the decisions necessary to use training to move the business forward. Later in the book you will look at the choices available to you regarding your training solutions including coaching, mentoring, on-the-job instruction and induction training. After a look at running an in-house training event, you will discover the methods by which you can evaluate the success of any training given.