TrainSmart: Effective Trainings Every Time / Edition 2

by Rich Allen

Overview

Facilitate highly successful staff development sessions with new brain-friendly strategies, 25 key concepts for training smarter, sample schedules and planning templates, and recommendations for incorporating current technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412955782
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/20/2007
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,114,551
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Learn more about Rich Allen's PD offerings

Richard Allen is an international consultant with more than 25 years experience coaching trainers and educators. Cofounder and president of Education Illustrated, he has taken the Train Smart strategies beyond the United States and Canada to such diverse countries as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brunei, Russia, Jordan, and Brazil. Allen is also a popular keynote speaker at international conferences, and he facilitates moti­vational and teambuilding workshops.

Allen started his educational career as a high school math and drama teacher. In 1985, he became a lead facilitator for Super Camp—an accelerated learning program for teens—and has since worked with more than 25,000 students worldwide. He completed his doctorate in educational psychology at Arizona State University, where he studied how the human brain receives, processes, and recalls information—knowledge that informs all aspects of his training strategies.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Prepare for Effective Trainings Every Time
Overview
The Five Pillars of the Train Smart Model
The Bricks and Mortar of the Train Smart Model
Sample Train Smart Schedule
Train Smart Lesson Plan Template
Part II. 25 Key Concepts for Training Smarter
Key Concept Matrix
1. Acknowledgment
2. Bridges and Zones
3. Comfort Levels
4. Task Completion
5. Contrast
6. Precise Directions
7. Resource Distribution
8. Teach It Standing
9. Participant Inquiry
10. Adequate Response Time
11. Specify Response Mode
12. Question/Clarify/Question
13. Managing Disruptions
14. Creative Note Taking
15. Positive Language
16. Involve, Don’t Tell
17. Ownership
18. Pause for Visuals
19. Press and Release
20. Purposeful Body Language
21. Visual-Field Variations
22. Vocal Italics
23. Music Matters
24. Guiding Attention
25. Verbal Specificity
Part III. Tools for Training
Six Powerful Parables
A Train Smart Checklist
Train Smart Lesson Plan Template
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"A powerful text in a small package, designed to teach trainers and workshop facilitators within or outside of education how to design effective training sessions. "

Middle Ground Magazine

"Train Smart is the best, clearest, most to-the-point, practical, and most valuable resource available for trainers. With this second edition, Rich Allen has gone from 'great' to 'even greater.' It is a required guide for our trainers and the new text in our Trainer of Trainers program. "

Spence Rogers

"Rich Allen has done it again—another clear, practical, and powerful resource for all educators. These principles and strategies ought to be mandatory for everyone who presents for a living. "

Eric Jensen

"Rich Allen is THE consumate trainer with a natural gift for delivering effective, dynamic presentations. This is a must-read for beginning professional developers, and it also offers veterans new ideas. If the intent is to raise student achievement via high-quality presentations, then this book meets its goal. "

Mark Diaz

"Rich Allen has the rare ability to identify and define with clarity the elements of excellence in training. In Train Smart, he reveals the pathway from good presentation to great presentation. Every professional trainer should use this resource to support their continuous improvement plan. "

John Parks Le Tellier