Description
Your essential guide to designing successful training programs.
If you're an experienced trainer, training manager, content designer, or curriculum developer, Technical Training Basics will help you tackle the challenges of working with specialized, complex subject matter and in partnership with subject matter experts.
Part of ATD's Training Basics series, this complete guide describes the differences between technical and nontechnical training; the principles of gathering information and arranging content for a highly technical course; how to apply specific tools, equipment, and processes in your training; and how to manage your project from designing and developing a pilot course through post-course review.
This expanded second edition features new material that focuses on:
More exercises, outlines, worksheets, checklists, evaluation forms, and a sample PowerPoint presentation are included to further meet your technical needs.
About the Author
Sarah Wakefield is the founder of Wakeology Solutions in Houston, Texas. She has worked as a training manager and train-the-trainer facilitator for the oil and gas industry and has taught communication, writing, and "life success" courses at Ivy Tech State College and at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sarah holds a master's degree in communication and a bachelor's degree with a double major in professional writing and psychology, both from Purdue University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781950496358
Author Sarah Wakefield
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint ATD Press
Publisher American Society for Training & Development
If you're an experienced trainer, training manager, content designer, or curriculum developer, Technical Training Basics will help you tackle the challenges of working with specialized, complex subject matter and in partnership with subject matter experts.
Part of ATD's Training Basics series, this complete guide describes the differences between technical and nontechnical training; the principles of gathering information and arranging content for a highly technical course; how to apply specific tools, equipment, and processes in your training; and how to manage your project from designing and developing a pilot course through post-course review.
This expanded second edition features new material that focuses on:
- smaller performance solutions
- Agile design the learner experience.
More exercises, outlines, worksheets, checklists, evaluation forms, and a sample PowerPoint presentation are included to further meet your technical needs.
About the Author
Sarah Wakefield is the founder of Wakeology Solutions in Houston, Texas. She has worked as a training manager and train-the-trainer facilitator for the oil and gas industry and has taught communication, writing, and "life success" courses at Ivy Tech State College and at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sarah holds a master's degree in communication and a bachelor's degree with a double major in professional writing and psychology, both from Purdue University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781950496358
Author Sarah Wakefield
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint ATD Press
Publisher American Society for Training & Development
