Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at Work [Hardcover]

Linda Honold (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0891061509 | ISBN-13: 978-0891061502 | Publication Date: November 21, 2000 | Edition: 1

This much-needed book is filled with innovative learning strategies for any organization that wants to stay competitive by creating opportunities for employees to advance themselves—and their businesses—by learning to learn.

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It's not difficult to like this book. Even experienced readers will find useful thoughts, richly illustrated with anecdotes. -- Academy of Management Learning and Education, September 2002

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"Developing Employees Who Love to Learn provides a clear road map for creating successful learning in an organization. The tools and strategies Honold offers are invigorating and can make the organization heart beat faster. This book will help you. It should be read by everyone who is interested in transforming his or her organization by developing the talents of its people. This strategic resource will make your job easier by demonstrating how to use the tools of effective, work-based training. It is for any manager who believes in the power of human potential."--From the Foreword by Ralph Stayer, coauthor of "Flight of the Buffalo" and CEO of Johnsonville Sausage

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; 1 edition (November 21, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891061509
• ISBN-13: 978-0891061502
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,214,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A First Rate Book On How To Organize for Employee Learning, March 9, 2001

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Harold Bergan (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at Work (Hardcover)

This book came to me just as I was grappling with the problem of providing a fresh learning experience for some 40 managers in a major retail company located near Los Angeles. The book was just what I needed to develop a learning plan that goes well beyond classroom-type training. The book provides a sophisticated learning model that is easy to understand and very practical.

The book is well organized. Ms. Honold provides a useful and up-to-date review of adult learning theory, but quickly moves on to present an impressive array of tools aimed at meeting the needs of people with widely varying learning styles. When it comes to learning one size does not fit all. (We seem to accept this idea for adults -- why not for younger students?)

This is a user-friendly book of great value to anyone who is looking for a fresh perspective on how to share information in an organization. There is a major emphasis on motivating the learner, a key point that often gets short shrift in books like this. Finally, and most importantly, Ms. Honold is obviously an experienced practitioner in creating enthusiasm for learning in a work setting. That experience is reflected throughout this excellent book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for all interested in learning at work., April 5, 2002

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This review is from: Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at Work (Hardcover)

'Linda Honold has produced the best book in its field. She shows clearly how learning and development can be a real force for positive change in organizations. The book is especially useful in focusing on practical, usable methods that can be applied in real life situations. It's also valuable because the approaches the book suggests are tried and tested. She comes from a background in organizational life so it's not some arm-chair theorising by an academic. Indeed I'd wish that the theoretical 'learning organization' folks would take note of this book. We need more practical, concrete approaches to improving learning not meandering theories.

This is a book that all trainers and developers should own.'

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended!, August 22, 2001

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at Work (Hardcover)

Linda Honold describes a system for helping everyone in your company learn to become more creative, responsive, efficient and team-oriented. She describes various techniques, including methods for developing an interest in learning and in self-knowledge, individual learning tools, mentoring, coaching and peer learning as well as strategies for helping people learn in groups. She pays particular attention to learning styles, drawing on the Myers-Briggs personality type system. This book speaks primarily to human resource professionals and to executives who might be setting up learning systems for their own companies. Others may find the book dry and overly concerned with the details of systematizing the serendipity of informal learning. But we [...] recommend this book to HR practitioners, and also to professionals delving into knowledge management, who will certainly benefit from this theoretical look at how people in companies actually learn.