Product Description
Here's the easiest way to make sure you read and have the best articles published during the past year in training and human performance improvement. The articles, critically selected from such leading training and industry periodicals as Training Magazine, Training & Development Journal, and HRD Quarterly, cover important topics including strategy issues, training evaluation, on-line training technology and performance improvement. Also includes a directory of training sites on the Web, a directory of training organizations, the year's dates for conferences, and more.
From the Back Cover
The state-of-the-art update on training and performance! The training profession is changing dramatically, and you need to know why and how. You can spend hours each week reading the leading training and business publications-or you can take the just-in-time approach with The 1998 ASTD Training & Performance Yearbook. Editors John Woods and James Cortada have done all the reading and selecting for you to compile this year's most important articles and reference information for your industry. What's more, they have commisioned original chapters written exclusively for this edition by leading thinkers such as Dale M. Brethower ("Through an Evaluator's Eyes: A Vision of HRD"), Karen Whiteside ("Improving the Performance of the Training Department Using Human Performance Technology"), and Barry Reybould ("The Role of Technology in Improving Performance"). The real value of the Yearbook is that it pays special attention to the shift in emphasis from training to performance improvement and helps you keep pace with new technologies, such as interactive multimedia, electronic performance support tools, and training resources on the Internet. Career-boosting advice includes: newest methods in mentoring... corporate home schooling... executive coaching... and self-directed learning; more than a dozen ideas for performance improvement programs; improving the output of your training department, from the former president of ISPI; the latest training delivery techniques, including self-directed and distance learning; the most important recent development, trends, ideas, and practices in training and performance in pick-of-the crop articles from top journals.
