List+of+Books+About+Training

=**Books About Instructional Design and Delivering Good Training**=

I often get asked for book recommendations about training. Here's a few of my favorites:

The Accelerated Learning Handbook By Dave Meier

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This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the "SAVI" model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training.

Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training by Eric Jensen

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This book looks at standard secondary education practices and adapts them based on scientific research about how the brain learns. You will find answers to questions like, "Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?" and "How is chaos and confusion valuable to learning?" Plus many more provocative questions. The scientific information is presented in a format that non-scientists can understand and apply. The applications go beyond secondary teaching and can be applied within organizations to transform them into learning organizations.

Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage By Vicki Halsey

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This is one of my favorite books about instructional design, especially if you are designing professional development activities for nonprofit staff or other trainers. This six-step instructional model is called "ENGAGE." It replaces the old school model of sitting and listening with E-energize learners, help them N-navigate, let them G-Generate personal meaning and A-Apply their skills,G-Gauge and celebrate their learning and E-Extend what they learn to action. This is a very practical staff development model -- and can be applied to brown bags sessions to longer, more indepth professional learning experiences.

From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers by Jane Bozarth, Editor

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This like having a playbook from the best of the best instructional designers and trainers. The book is a cookbook that provides worksheets, templates, and spreadsheets that help you put the ADDIE instructional design process into practice. The books comes with a CD-ROM of all these great tools in electronic format that you can easily modify to your needs.

Interactive Lectures by Sivasailam Thiagarajan

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I found this book invaluable as an adjunct professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies when teaching graduate courses. If you teach in higher education, you most likely will find yourself having to deliver a lecture. "Thiagi's" tips will help you avoid being boring and make it more interactive. This book has been on my shelf for almost ten years and I've had to opportunity to test and play with almost all the techniques in the book -- and it makes teaching so much more fun for both you and your students.

Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning by Jane Bozarth

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This book provides some great tips and recipes for incorporating social media into your training practice. It has many examples of using blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare and other tools for both face-to-face workshops and e-learning. There is also a good overview of social learning and the role that networks and these new tools play.

Training from the Back of the Room: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn by Sharon Bowman

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I'm a huge of Sharon L. Bowman and have read all her books and systematically applied her techniques and ideas. I think an effective instructor is less a sage of the stage and more a guide on the side. This book gives lots of methods to become a more effective trainer by ditching the lecture format.