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Author O'Neill-Blackwell, Jeanine

Title Engage : the Trainer's Guide to Learning Styles
Published New York : John Wiley & Sons, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (526 pages)
Contents ENGAGE: The Trainer's Guide to Learning Styles; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: What Are Your Natural Training Strengths?; The Trainer's Strengths; Job of the Trainer; Value of This Book; Let's Get Started: Taking the Training Style Inventory® (TRSI®); The Four Training Approaches; Four Trainer Type Assessments; Your Learning Style: What You Look for, You Find; Common Descriptions of Ideal Learning Environments; Your Style: The Four Parts of the Learning Cycle; Summary; Identifying Areas of Opportunity; FAQs; Reflect; Act
Chapter 2: The Four Learning Styles in the RoomWhat Is Learning?; Your Learning Style; The 4MAT Learning Styles®; Understanding Your Thinking Map; Thinking Strengths of Each Style; Functional Strengths of Each Style; How Your Training Style Relates to the Needs of Each Learning Style; Summary; FAQs; Reflect; Act; Chapter 3: 4MAT: The Four Steps of the Learning Cycle; A Brief Tour of the Brain; Brain Research on Learning; The Four Steps; Using the 4MAT Model to Design Learning; The First Step: Engage; The Second Step: Share; The Third Step: Practice; The Fourth Step: Perform; Summary; Reflect
ActChapter 4: Engage: The Art of Creating Powerful Openings; What Happens in Engage; Focus 1: Gaining Attention by Linking to What Learners Already Know; Focus 2: Using Questions to Provoke Reflection, Generate Dialogue, and Guide the Movement of the Group; Focus 3: Creating a Safe Learning Environment; Five Ways to Enhance Learner Safety While Building a Sense of Community; Summary; Reflect; Act; Examples of Engage Activities; Chapter 5: Share: Animating the Learning Content; Two Channels of Delivery: Visual and Verbal; The Verbal Channel: How to Organize Your Lecture
The Visual Channel: Animating Lecture Using Visual StrategiesAnimating Lecture with Visual Organizers; Animating Lecture with PowerPoint; Summary; Reflect; Act; Examples of Share Activities; Chapter 6: Practice: Building Mastery Through Application; Designing Outcome-Based Practice Activities; Facilitating (Setting Up) Activities Effectively; Observing Application; Coaching and Debriefing; Using Questions to Focus the Learner's Attention; Coaching Assessment Tool; Strategies That Work in Practice; Summary; Reflect; Act; Examples of Practice Activities
Chapter 7: Perform: Assessing and ImplementingWhat You Are Doing; Encouraging Self-Assessment; Gaining Commitment on Future Action; Setting Up a Post-Training Implementation Plan; The 24/7 Rule; Organizing an On-the-Job Support Team; Choosing On-the-Job Coaches; Summary; Reflect; Act; Activities for Perform; Chapter 8: Engaging Virtual Training: How to Maximize Online Learning Impact; Designing Your Virtual Session; Engage; Share; Practice; Perform; Summary; Reflect; Act; Chapter 9: Begin with the End in Mind; Step 1: Clarifying Stakeholder Expectations and Analyzing the Performance Gap
Summary Discover Your Training Style Strengths and Build Your Skills with Online Tools, Videos, and More "A superb book that gives learning and development professionals in every industry an automatic must-read. This book is filled with wisdom and insight as well as clear analytic models and real actionable concrete steps."--Bruce Tulgan, author of It's OK to Be the Boss and Managing Generation X "Engage takes the innovation of 4MAT® and looks at it through the lens of the trainer. An engaging learning experience itself, Engage is full of interactive assessments, links to videos, and foolproo
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Subject Employees -- Training of.
Employees -- Training of
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781118222317
1118222318