How to Survive a Training Assignment : A Practical Guide for the New, Part-Time or Temporary Trainer

As a supervisor, manager, engineer, or technical expert, you may often be asked to pass on your important knowledge and skill to other people in your organization. This convenient handbook provides everything you need to know to succeed with these occasional or routine training assignments. Formatted for easy reference, and avoiding jargon or heavy doses of theory, this unique volume lays out the basics of training, including: the characteristics of the adult learner training objectives and why they are important how to design a training program when and how to use different instructional techniques selecting the right visual aid creating lesson plans how to give an effective presentation drawing on subject matter experts evaluating and giving feedback Along with practical tips and examples, author Steven Ellis, also provides extensive checklists, a summary of each chapter's main points, and a list of references and materials-everything to help you from start to finish.