Creating, Implementing, and Managing Effective Training and Development--the twelfth volume in the Professional Practice Series--is a hands-on resource that offers practitioners a compendium of the most- current theory and research concerning training and organizations. This important book takes a multidisciplinary approach and contains chapters from leading practitioners and researchers who provide state-of-the-art information, suggestions, principles, and guidelines from a wide range of disciplines.
Contributors to Creating, Implementing, and Managing Effective Training and Development
Kenneth G. Brown
C. Shawn Burke
Janis A. Cannon-Bowers
Donna Chrobot-Mason
Jason A. Colquitt
David A. DuBois
J. Kevin Ford
John Jeppesen
Kurt Kraiger
M. Anthony Machin
Raymond A. Noe
Colleen Petersen
David B. Peterson
Miguel A. Quinones
Linda Rogers
Eduardo Salas
Scott Tannenbaum

In the past decade there has been an unprecedented level of advancement in training research, theory, and application. The field has been transformed by fresh theories and multidisciplinary principles, innovative methods for measuring training effectiveness, and new applications of e-learning.
Creating, Implementing, and Managing Effective Training and Development provides training professionals with the cutting-edge information and guidelines needed to implement and maintain effective training and development programs within organizations. The contributors-- expert practitioners and researchers-- represent a wide range of instruction, learning, and performance disciplines, including performance technology, vocational education, and instructional technology. In this book, they offer a guide to the best practices and most current developments in strategic planning and needs assessment, training design and media selection, training delivery, transfer of training and training evaluation, long-term maintenance of leading programs within organizations, and more.
This comprehensive resource offers a review of the best practices in recent training and development methods and a thorough understanding of organizational training and learning. The contributors show how to

• Position training and development within the organization
• Plan for effective training interventions
• Affect in a positive manner trainee readiness, motivation, learning, and transfer
• Develop training that will maximize the benefits of a diverse workplace
• Implement a practical framework for accelerating learning and development through coaching
• Facilitate computer technology in training through the creation of an infrastructure for active learning
• Promote training and measuring effective teams and teamwork
• Choose the most appropriate evaluation measures and maximize the impact of evaluation practices

Human resource practitioners, instructional developers, chief learning officers, and all those who promote learning in organizations will find that Creating, Implementing, and Managing Effective Training and Development provides a wealth of information, suggestions, and practical tips to help them meet their ongoing training challenges.