Complete Training From Recruitment to Retirement [Paperback]

Basing his book on scientific research into how people learn and taking into account the realities of working in modern organizations, Robin Hoyle proposes a rigorous approach to workplace training. With a focus on measurable, evidence based techniques,Complete Trainingseeks to reposition L&D as central to strategy, the business and the organization's mission.

Complete Traininglooks at the employee life cycle and suggests a series of training challenges and opportunities relevant for diverse employees at each stage - from new hires to the veterans of the organization. Hoyle shows learning and development (L&D) practitioners and practicing managers how to develop adept individuals, as well as an organization with a memory, continually learning from its own endeavors.
Introduction: a manifesto

01 Employee life cycles
The new recruit undertaking an induction
The new manager
The leader
The specialist
The retiree

02 Complete training tools: the starting point
Training needs analysis or TNA
Shared learning outcomes: getting better at the things which matter
Knowledge, skills and behaviours
Self directed learning or pre-workshop activities
Life cycle tips

03 Complete training tools: workshops
The real costs of the training room
Developing skills
Efficiency and effectiveness
Presenting
Engagement and the A-ha! moment
Planning, planning and planning again
The process of unlearning
Life cycle tips

04 Complete training tools: follow-up activities and on-the-job/informal learning
Back to work: the line manager’s role
Coaching and mentoring
Back to work: doing something different
Life cycle tips

05 Can all the tools work together?
Technology-based blended learning
70:20:10 – the much abused new orthodoxy
An experiential learning model
The curse of learning styles
Reflection &#lSŸ