The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Successful Workshops and Training Programs [Paperback]

Bruce Klatt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070382018 | ISBN-13: 978-0070382015 | Publication Date: January 1, 1999 | Edition: 1

Here is the most comprehensive guide to leading a training session or workshop ever published. This ``soup-to-nuts" reference answers just about every question a trainer/facilitator might have about leading a successful training program, from motivating participants to measuring the results. Based on 25 years of workshop experience, the book features hundreds of professional tips and tricks, plus reproducible materials to use at every step of the training process.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

An amazing reference covering every aspect of leading a training program or workshop--Bruce Klatt's The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook was written for those who want to excel as trainers, and to offer maximum value both to client/employers and workshop participants. Focusing on success in front of the group and based on latt's 25 years of experience, this comprehensive guide takes you from the contracting stage through evaluating results. It shows you prepare yourself and your clients, and how to construct the workshop. You'll discover how to: contract with clients, participants, and yourself to ensure agreement on purpose and goals; develop h-energy, participant-oriented workshops using state-of-the-art methods, models, and techniques; use natural learning and deep learning techniques, visual aids, and other important training tools; get workshops started with energy and enthusiasm; lead exercises, simulations, and subgroup activities; use humor; and develop methods or staying on track or changing the workshop design mid-stream; manage participation problems such as under-, over-, and aggressive participation; reinforce, evaluate, and follow up on training program and workshop success. Whether you're developing a new workshop based on your special expertise, polishing existing workshop skills, or recharging years of training experience, this comprehensive, skill- t ip-filled guide delivers not just training theory but techniques that work. The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook is the most complete, thoughtful, and useful manual on training workshops ever published.

About the Author

Bruce Klatt (Calgary, Canada; www.murphyklatt.com) is a senior partner in Murphy Klatt Consulting, Inc. specializing in accountability and alignment, strategic alliancing and organizational effectiveness.

Product Details

• Paperback: 538 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070382018
• ISBN-13: 978-0070382015
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A mixed blessing, April 13, 2001

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Linda Klevans Manning "Must Read" (Waltham, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Successful Workshops & Training Programs (Hardcover)

This is the most useful Training book I've come across in a long time. I find myself referring to it often. However, it is in desperate need of editing. It could easily be cut down by 1/3 - and that would make it much better.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for people in the workshop business!, March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Successful Workshops and Training Programs (Paperback)

"Ultimate" and "comprehensive" are the key words in the title that set this handbook apart from the others. They say it all - over 600 pages of checklists, diagrams, models, and examples covering every topic of the workshop business. And you are given permission to copy pages for personal workshop use! When paging through the book I began to play a game - he must have missed something! Well, whatever it is, I'm still looking...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Did anyone edit this book?, January 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Successful Workshops and Training Programs (Paperback)

It is tragic to find wonderful research compiled into a book wrought with spelling, grammatical, and sentence structure errors. Unnecessary comments by the author makes reading even more tedious. A new edition with a good editor would make this book priceless.