Engage: The Trainer's Guide to Learning Styles

by Jeanine O'Neill-Blackwell

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 foolproof action plans and ideas designed to transform any learning event into a dynamic learning experience."-- Shelley Barnes, executive director, Field Education/Program Development, Aveda Corporation For any trainer who needs easy-to-apply strategies that are grounded in solid research, Engage offers a hands-on guide to understanding learning styles. It includes a four-step model for engaging all learning styles in any learning situation. The book integrates both the art and research-based science of strong instructional design reaching all learning styles with activities, tricks, and tips that are proven to boost skills quickly. Filled with illustrative examples and online companion resources, the book explores the brain research that lays the foundation for the book's 4MAT® model and includes activities and strategies that can be applied for each step in the process. Engage also gives the reader access to an online version of the 4MAT® Training Style Inventory. The results of the assessment give a strengths score in four key training roles.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2012

About the author

Jeanine O’Neill-Blackwell, author of ENGAGE, The Trainer's Guide to Learning Styles, is a leading expert and consultant on brain-based instructional design and delivery. She co-authored the best-selling instructional design book, Hold On, You Lost Me! with 4MAT® creator, Dr. Bernice McCarthy.

She is President/CEO of 4MAT 4Business®, which provides certification programs and consulting in instructional design, delivery, and leadership development. Her clients include learning organizations such as the Aveda Corporation, Holland America Line®, The Center for Creative Leadership, and Cabela’s® Sporting Goods.

Reviews

[Mark Roossinck · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was a work read. We use 4MAT to design curriculum for staff trainings, and for that reason it was very profitable. A lot of valuable ideas to design based upon this type of format.

[Florian Valente · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is OK for reading up on 4MAT. The strength is that it explains the four quadrants, and your role as trainer/teacher quite well, and also gives somewhat useful suggestions what types of activities you can do in each. The downside is that I find its structure somewhat confusing (ironic, given the topic), and that learning styles itself (which 4MAT is not necessarily) is a problematic topic, and not scientifically sound, so those parts dealing with the 8pie, brain hemispheres and the such I do not recommend, it also offers little useful knowledge on learning theory.
2 out 5, because some parts are truly useful and well explained.

[Josiah]

This copy provided free courtesty of GoodReads' FirstReads!

[Benjamin Johnansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for giving general tips to make a better and more connected training session. Includes many tips & tricks