Creative Training Idea Book, The: Inspired Tips and Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning [Paperback]

Robert William Lucas (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814407331 | ISBN-13: 978-0814407332 | Publication Date: April 1, 2003 | Edition: 1st

Trainers have to be creative if they want their participants to feel excited, challenged, and involved. The Creative Training Idea Book is packed with instructions for using activities, games, puzzles, toys, and props to increase energy and active participation in the classroom, and reveals how to think creatively about training in any situation.

Based on the author's nearly three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment. Readers will learn new methods for:

setting the right tone
-- uncovering participant needs
-- grouping participants and selecting leaders
-- avoiding and reclaiming turned-off learners
-- encouraging and rewarding participation
-- and much more!

Filled with checklists, forms, resources, and dozens of "Bright Idea" blurbs, The Creative Training Idea Book will help trainers and their learners achieve maximum learning results.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Training consultant Lucas has written a computer manual-sized collection of training tools that emphasize fun, participation, and "brain-based" learning. -- The Business Reader Review, February 2003

Book Description

"Trainers have to be creative if they want their participants to feel excited, challenged, and involved. The Creative Training Idea Book is packed with instructions for using activities, games, puzzles, toys, and props to increase energy and active participation in the classroom, and reveals how to think creatively about training in any situation.

Based on the author’s nearly three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment. Readers will learn new methods for:

* setting the right tone

* uncovering participant needs

* grouping participants and selecting leaders

* avoiding and reclaiming turned-off learners

* encouraging and rewarding participation

* and much more!

Filled with checklists, forms, resources, and dozens of ""Bright Idea"" blurbs, The Creative Training Idea Book will help trainers and their learners achieve maximum learning results."

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814407331
• ISBN-13: 978-0814407332
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,695,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert (Bob) W. Lucas, B.S., M.A., M.A., CPLP

Bob Lucas is a founding Managing Partner for Global Performance Strategies, LLC --- an organization specializing in workplace performance-based training and consulting services and has over three decades of experience in human resources development, management and customer service in a variety of organizational environments. He is also the 2011 President of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD); a position he held in 1995. Bob has lived, traveled and worked in nineteen different countries. His experience gives him a real-world perspective on the application of theory he has studied and used.

In addition to having the top selling customer service textbook in the United States with McGraw-Hill, Bob has written and contributed to thirty-one other books and compilations. For the past seventeen years, he has also shared his knowledge with workplace professionals from organizations such as Walt Disney World, SeaWorld, Martin Marietta, and Wachovia Bank in the Webster University Master of Arts program in Orlando, Florida. In addition, he has provided consulting and training services to numerous major organizations on a variety of workplace learning topics, such as customer service, presentation skills, creative training and management program development, train-the-trainer, interpersonal communication, adult learning, diversity, team building, and employee and organizational development. Bob regularly gives regular presentations to various local and national groups and organizations, such as, ASTD and the International Alliance for Learning.

Listed in the Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the South & Southeast,
Bob is also an avid writer. His publications include:
-Please Every Customer: Delivering Stellar Customer Service across Cultures
-Energize Your Training: Creative Techniques to
Engage Learners
-Customer Service Skills for Success
-Training Workshop Essentials: Designing,
Developing and Delivering Learning Events That
Get Results
-Creative Learning: Activities and Games That
REALLY Engage People
-People Strategies for Trainers: 176 Tips &
Techniques for Dealing with Difficult Classroom
Situations
-The Creative Training Idea Book: Inspired Tips &
Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning
-The BIG Book of Flip Charts
-How to be a Great Call Center Representative
-Customer Service Skills & Concepts for Success
-Customer Service: Building Successful Skills for the
21st Century
-Job Strategies for New Employees
-Communicating One-to-One: Making the Most of
Interpersonal Relationships
-Coaching Skills: A Guide for Supervisors
-Effective Interpersonal Relationships
-Training Skills for Supervisors
-Customer Service: Skills and Concepts for Business.

Additionally, Bob has been a contributing author for the Annual: Developing Human Resources series by Pfeiffer & Company since 1992 and several compilation works by other publishers. From 1991-2010 he taught a variety of topics at the Masters level at Webster University and several other institutions of higher learning.

Bob has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement from the University of Maryland, a M.A degree with a focus in Human Resources Development from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a second M.A. degree in Management and Leadership from Webster University in Orlando, Florida.

Contact Information:
Bob Lucas
[phone]
[e-mail]
http://www.globalperformancestrategies.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "right stuff" for trainers and presenters, April 18, 2003

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"cincybill" (Cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Training Idea Book, The: Inspired Tips and Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning (Paperback)

Despite the prevalance of e-learning, the classroom remains the preferred training platform, both by students and trainers. Most classroom experiences would benefit immeasureably through the well-researched, practical techniques in the Creative Training Idea Book.

Beginning with the right foundation - how the adult brain learns - the book offers hundreds of ideas most trainers learn only through long trial and error (if at all). As the author discussed bread and butter subjects such as the multiple ways the classroom can be set up, how to use flipcharts effectively, how to tell stories, ideas for class evaluations or the best questioning techniques, I found myself agreeing with nearly every suggestion.

This book would have helped me become a seasoned presenter much earlier in my career. And although I'm now a seasoned facilitator with thousands of presentations under my belt, I still picked up some new ideas. Highly recommended for all stand-up trainers and presenters committed to delivering boredom-free, professional sessions.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book lives up to its name, December 8, 2004

By 

TJ Walker "Author, 'Presentation Training A-Z... (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Training Idea Book, The: Inspired Tips and Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning (Paperback)

Lucas does indeed give lots of creative ideas on how to be a more effective trainer by engaging trainees in more imaginative ways. There are tips here you won't see in other manuals.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative Training Idea Book: Inspired Tips and Techniques En, February 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Creative Training Idea Book, The: Inspired Tips and Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning (Paperback)

I just read this book and all I can say is WOW! I got so many ideas for setting up classrooms that will enhance my training, engaging participants, stimulating learning and delivering training in a way that is effective and FUN, that I am not sure which strategy I want to use first. This book has terrific information and ideas for generating learner enthusiasm, rewarding participants, gaining learner involvement and rewarding positive behavior. The author really sets the tone for the entire boiok in the first chapter where he discusses research on brain-based learning, multiple intelligences, adult learning principles and much more. Throughout the book, he's also provided something he calls "bright ideas" and "Interim Reviews" for applying the information provided.
This is going to be a book I reference often and would encourage anyone involved in T&D to own.