What Great Trainers Do: The Ultimate Guide to Delivering Engaging and Effective Learning

by Robert Bolton, Dorothy Grover Bolton

Corporate trainers are tasked with an awesome responsibility—helping individuals develop the skills they need to advance their careers and boost their organizations’ bottom lines. It’s a challenging job, but What Great Trainers Do is here to help—providing a proven structure for dynamic workshops along with surefire strategies for blending course content with fluid interaction. Readers will learn how to:



Organize presentations for maximum impact
• Use activities to connect participants to the content and each other
• Create visual aids that reinforce key points
• Fine-tune their delivery
• Listen actively and read the group
• Address questions and concerns
• Make presentations interactive—involving learners early and often
• Manage the tough moments
• Handle resistance
• Use debriefs, demonstrations, and deliberate practice to solidify performance, improve applicability, and make training stick
• Adapt the course to fit the participants
• Promote positive group process
• And much more



Great training doesn’t happen by accident. Accessible and practical, What Great Trainers Do is a one-stop resource for reliable, repeatable learning results.

Genres: Nonfiction

Audio CD

First published November 11, 2015

Reviews

[Andrei Gavrila · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is long. All books that are long risk boring readers. This means that the pace that most people will have in reading this would be slow, especially if the subject is not interesting to them. It happened to me, too; I tend to read books much faster than I managed to read this one. At the same time, I did not find enough arguments to stop reading it either. The book is good enough not to drop it. It contains good information, covers many topics, and is (except for the length) well-written.

I highly recommend Training from the Back of the Room instead for people who want to become better trainers or get to the next level.

This book could be interesting for people who want to dive deep into the subject of training or are training in a full-time role.