10 Steps To Successful Training

This is not your typical training book. You won't find a traditional training-cycle outline or a classic training table of contents. Instead, this book pinpoints the key actions necessary to successful training and focuses on the elements with the most influence on bottom-line results. Throughout the book you'll discover helpful, ready-to-use tools: worksheets, evaluation forms, tables, checklists, case studies, and reminders and suggestions. Whether you're a middle- or upper-level manager, or a workplace learning or human-resource professional, 10 Steps to Successful Training can provide you with options for enhancing the learning environment in your organization. Boost your success as a trainer and help others learn more effectively by investing in this essential guidebook today.

In this guide, Oberstein demonstrates why coaching can be a powerful tool to drive organization performance and support the achievement of individual career goals. The solid, understandable process presented in the book encourages and supports positive, long-term change.

A crash course for effectively planning and managing timely, organized projects. 10 Steps to Successful Project Management features a structured methodology for delivering high-quality projects on time. Learn how to distinguish between a project and task, build a convincing business case, define project scope, assess risks and constraints, create a project plan, collaborate on action items, and measure and communicate results. This title is an essential resource for anyone, in any function, of any business.

Reach New Heights as a Mentor Broaden people’s perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn’t take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this. You can do it—when you become a masterful mentor. While mentoring resources typically center on the mentee or the program, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is devoted explicitly to helping you excel in the role of mentor. In this book, Wendy Axelrod helps you stretch your mentoring abilities to yield substantial rewards for you and your mentee. Drawing on more than 20 years of work with mentors, she delves into proven approaches to use in your ongoing meetings, such as elevating the power of questions, leveraging experience for learning, and expanding growth using everyday psychology. Come away inspired to take on a fresh challenge. Whether mentoring is a calling or a choice, you’re new to it or a seasoned veteran, or you’re in a formal program or on your own, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is the resource you’ll return to again and again. It’s filled with real-life examples and 40 tools to help you master the nuances that drive deliberate development. Woven throughout are Wendy’s seven guiding principles that distinguish the most successful mentors (hint: “Start where your mentee is, not where you think they should be”). Become the best possible mentor, and deliver memorable experiences to your mentees and create a lasting legacy for yourself.

Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop Others Coaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to help you embrace and elevate your existing coaching skills, drawing upon your strengths as a leader, colleague, or employee to bring out the strengths of others. This book is an entry point for anyone who wants—or has been asked—to do some formal or informal coaching. It’s also for anyone who wants to infuse day-to-day interactions in the workplace with a powerful new skill: development through coaching. With coaching skills quickly becoming essential for anyone who wants to help others develop in the workplace, use this book as your road map to being an effective coach who is ready to listen, encourage, and challenge others to greater achievement. Your coachees will enjoy greater job satisfaction and confidence, and your organization will benefit from this cost-effective way of developing employees and improving productivity. You, as a coach, will discover growth in your working relationships and gain a tremendous sense of accomplishment. This second edition addresses coaching in terms of the broader organization; creating a coaching culture; the impact of technology on the coaching relationship; and goal and accountability setting; overcoming obstacles to good listening; and ending the coaching process. You'll find a diverse array of tools to help you along the way. Examples include: a development plan to highlight existing coaching skills and areas of opportunity sample questions to ask during sessions forms to secure commitment to coaching an assessment to evaluate your organization’s coaching culture.

Education is the new currency.Regardless of what business or industry you are in; if you wish to sell what you have to others, your commercial survival depends on you becoming the EDUPRENEUR.Consumers are tired of sales pitches and promises, and instead are seeking information and knowledge. By giving it to them you get to demonstrate your capability and expertise as much as they get to experience it - making you choice number 1 for their needs.Edupreneurs strategically share their expertise in a way that provides unprecedented global reach, immeasurable impact on the lives of others, and unlimited income potential.Every single person on Earth has an abundant and unique set of skills, experiences, and knowledge that could be turned into commercially profitable products and services.In this book, Sarah Cordiner will take you through the fundamentals of monetising your expertise and profitably sharing what you know with the world.Whether you are an absolute beginner in creating and selling information and education-based products and services, or are up-levelling to a serious education-based business operation; this book will help you get there.Inside this book:How to commercialise your skills, knowledge, and expertise and start profiting from what is already in your head.How to create your own unique `funnel of service',so that you no longer need to `sell', and instead have your customers coming eagerly to you for your advice and expertise.A deep dive into the 10 stages of designing and building a highly successful information or education-based business so that you maximise your impact and income.How to price your informational and educational products and services; including courses, consulting, workshops and more.Where and how to sell your educational products for maximum exposure and sales - particularly online courses.The critical elements of an online education based business. What online tools, apps and products you need and how they all fit together for maximum profitability, scalability, and automation. How to use your expertise to become a well-known leader in your industry.

Whether you're presenting training exercises, team meetings or a sales pitch, you can present like a pro, deal with technological glitches, appear calm under pressure, and deliver value-packed virtual presentations. Millions of web meetings take place every day, yet they are often boring, poorly conducted, and technologically challenged. But that doesn't have to happen to you! Now you can learn how to make your online meeting as engaging as an in-person presentation. Whether you're presenting general information, training exercises, team meetings or sales pitches, this book helps you present like a pro and appear calm under pressure. You can facilitate discussions, handle Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) issues, listen to and engage your audience, and multitask effectively. Plus you'll have case studies, rules of thumb, ready-to-use tools, checklists, and tips to share with coworkers. With this book to guide you, you can become a competent, confident, credible online presenter and deliver real value to your audience. Table of Contents: Step 1: Identify your learning objectives and outcomes Step 2: Learn the virtual presentation platforms Step 3: Plan your presentation Step 4: Learn to work with others Step 5: Build compelling content (presentation templates) (add four types) Step 6: Building good visuals Step 7: Refining your vocal skills Step 8: Rehearse Step 9: Multitasking and using the tools Step 10: Follow-up and learn

The funny thing about the phrase time management is that you can't really manage time. What you can do is manage yourself and your activities and thus save your life. Cyndi Maxey and Kevin E. O'Connor have written a book to help you do just that. If you're tired of scrambling frantically on the hamster wheel of life, maybe it's time you jumped off and learned to really manage your time—and your life—so that you are in control of your own destiny. After all, life is all about time: How you use it, whether it controls you (or vice versa), and whether you get what you want from it. The goal of this book is not to save you time (that can't be done, as you'll soon discover), but to save your life—the life you want to live while everything else is getting in your way. Although you'll certainly find plenty of techniques and tactics for managing time, the ultimate purpose of this book is to help you figure out what is most important to you personally and professionally, so that you can use your time wisely and productively. Whether you're a career development specialist, trainer, coach, talent management professional, or a manager who simply wants to learn more about time management, 10 Steps to Successful Time Management can give you the tools you need to break out of unproductive patterns and take control of time and your life. You'll learn how important it is to break your addiction to activity and "busy-ness" manage your energy and your focus do the most important things first create a task list that reflects your true priorities use the "magic" of connection to work with others change yourself so that you can change your actions and attitudes contribute to your organization without being dominated by it As you master the art of self-regulation, you'll find that you can control the parts of your life that can give you the results you want. And when you ask yourself "Who's in charge of my life?," you'll know that the answer is the right one. Give yourself the chance to reclaim your life. It's about time!