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Telling Ain't Training, 2nd edition

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Telling Ain't Training, 2nd edition is the foundational guide for trainers in the talent development field. It emphasises interactive training techniques over simple telling, engaging readers with practical exercises from the outset. This expanded edition includes new tools, charts, illustrations, quizzes, and activities designed to help trainers create more effective and learner-involved sessions.
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The foundational and go-to book for anyone who does training in the talent development field.

Telling Ain't Training, 2nd Edition sets new standards for the training industry. Readers will be relieved to find that its lively, user-friendly tone has been carefully preserved. In fact, this is a book that faithfully practices what it preaches, engaging the reader from page one and immediately involving them in the first of many try-it-yourself exercises that teach trainers how to avoid telling in favour of more interactive training.

This substantially heftier edition covers everything you must know to be a better trainer, plus includes additional tools, charts, exercises, illustrations, quizzes, and activities to involve learners.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781562867010

Publisher: American Society for Training & Development

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: ASTD Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 312

About the Author

Harold D. Stolovitch, CPT, is a graduate of both McGill University in Canada and Indiana University in the United States where he completed a doctorate and postdoctoral work in instructional systems technology. With one foot solidly grounded in the academic world and the other in the workplace, he has conducted a large number of research studies and practical projects always aimed at achieving high learning and performance results.

In addition to creating countless instructional materials for a broad range of work settings, Stolovitch has authored more than 300 articles, research reports, book chapters, and books. He is a past president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), former editor of the Performance Improvement Journal, and editorial board member of several human resource and performance technology journals.

He has won numerous awards throughout his 40-year career, including the Thomas F. Gilbert Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, ISPI's highest honor; Member-for-Life, the President's Award for Lifetime Achievements from the Canadian Society for Training and Development, their highest honor; and in 2004, he and his team won the ASTD Outstanding Research Award for their work on Incentives, Motivation, and Workplace Performance.

Stolovitch is an emeritus professor, Universitรฉ de Montrรฉal, where he headed the instructional and performance technology graduate programs and was the School of Educational Sciences associate dean of research. He is also a former Distinguished Visiting Scholar and clinical professor of human performance at work, University of Southern California. Stolovitch is a principal of HSA Learning & Performance Solutions LLC.

Erica J. Keeps, CPT, holds a master's degree in educational psychology from Wayne State University, Detroit, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, where she later became a faculty member in the Graduate Business School Executive Education Center.

Her 40-year professional career has included training management positions with J.L. Hudson Co. and Allied Supermarkets and senior-level learning and performance consultant positions with a wide variety of organizations. Keeps has not only produced and supervised the production of numerous instructional materials and performance management systems, but has also published extensively on improving workplace learning and performance. She has provided staff development for instructional designers, training administrators, and performance consultants. Keeps has been acknowledged by many learning and performance leaders as a caring mentor and major influence in their careers.

She is a former executive board member of the ISPI; a past president of the Michigan Chapter of ISPI; and a Member-for-Life of the Michigan, Montreal, and Los Angeles ISPI chapters. Among her many awards for outstanding contributions to instructional and performance technology is ISPIโ€™s Distinguished Service Award for her extensive leadership roles. Keeps is the managing director and a principal of HSA Learning & Performance Solutions LLC.

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