Covers the essentials of needs analysis from the trainer's perspective. This title covers topics such as: when and how to do a training needs analysis; using informal and formal analysis techniques; goal, task and population analysis; and how to develop and present a training plan for management approval.
Drawing on contemporary, internationally-significant case studies in water education, management education and education for sustainable development along with UNESCO's International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, this book debates the key issues surrounding vocational education.
This book examines learning taking place on the interface between education and working life at three levels: the individual learning processes; the organisational learning processes in educational institutions and work organisations; and the education system.
How are learning activities organised? How are tools and infrastructures used? What competences are needed to participate in specialised activities? What counts as knowledge in multiple and diverse settings? Where can parallels be drawn between workplaces? This book addresses these questions.
Helps facilitators to understand and develop a personal style to their work. This work offers theoretical content on the fundamental thinking underlying facilitation, including exploration of its dimensions and modes, whole person learning, and a comprehensive group dynamic theory.
This title takes a practical approach to all aspects of structuring and delivering a training course or seminar. It covers learning theory, learning environment, techniques for opening and closing the session, the right equipment and how to use it, preparation, delivery and group activities.
Offers a range of related perspectives on competence issues, which should be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, academics and researchers in the fields of teaching, social work, and youth and community work. The book includes comparisons with vocational education initiatives in Europe.
Millions of Americans have to train others as part of their jobs. Whether you're an employee training your co-workers on a new process or skill, a volunteer asked to train new volunteers, a chef training your staff, or a paramedic giving CPR training, it's just as important to know how to teach others as it is to know what you're talking about.
This book discusses what constitutes vocational education as well as its purposes, objects, formation and practices. It analyses the socially directed nature of vocations and argues that vocational education must realise important personal and social goals.
Offers the information you need to ace the toughest area of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification test - math and statistics. This book provides descriptions of various math concepts covered on the exam, along with relevant calculations and practical problem-solving strategies.
Provides a critical exploration of the theory and practice related to teacher preparation for interprofessional learning. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the processes involved in teaching complex diverse groups, facilitator preparation, curriculum development and inter-institutional collaboration.
Offers both background knowledge and the practical help you need to create strong leadership training at different levels within the organization. Presenting the training methodologies such as accelerated learning, this guide also provides methods for assessing leadership strengths and weaknesses.
Contains facts about the profession as well as an overview of different roles available from entry-level jobs through to more senior levels. This book includes advice and case studies of people already working in the industry. It presents practical tips on how to get into the industry, with experience and advice from those already there.
A survival guide to Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the UK. It provides answers to key questions such as: Why is VET such an important area? How can European models be used to develop VET in the UK? How is VET structured and provided? And, what are the main issues facing VET?
Part of the "Training Games" series, this collection of activities is designed to promote structured workplace learning. Aimed at both the new and the experienced trainer, it presents a range of learning exercises that can be used in individual or team-training programs. It is suitable for trainers, facilitators, supervisors, and consultants.
A guide to how people learn in the workplace, and the issues and challenges involved. Examining the fundamental characteristics of workplace learning and unravelling the various influences which affect the success of learners in a work-based environment, it explains how diverse individuals can be encouraged and invited to learn at work.
Suitable for those who work with others on participatory learning and change, this title covers topics such as getting started, seating arrangements, forming groups, managing large numbers, helping each other learn, analysis and feedback, dealing with dominators, evaluation and ending, coping with horrors, and common mistakes.
Explores EU programmes and policies that set out to reduce unemployment amongst young adults. Based on a three year EU research project across six countries, it reveals major policy trends and how these are influencing the discourses and practices of education, training and guidance (ETG) across Europe.
A guide for managers and employees to learn not only the regulations about handling workplace violence but also to learn signs of possible violence and how to deal with it. It covers OSHA programs, preventative measures, education and training in workplace violence, worksite analysis, security measures, and recovery after an incident.
Why not chuckle while learning how to organise your sales day? This title teaches some bumbling sales reps how to manage their time better. It helps to learn sales time diagnostics, scheduling your work, recovering scrap time, how to maximise time with prospects, and how to minimise sales meetings.
Suitable for trainee and qualified driving instructors, this book covers various aspects of the profession, from the role and the characteristics needed to do the job well, preparation for the three ADI examination requirements, through to the driving test and driving larger vehicles.
Fuses key ideas with applied activities to help managers examine and improve how they work in practice. This series includes books, which provide the basis for self-paced learning at level 4/5. It helps trainers to plan and deliver high quality, business-led courses.
Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continued competitiveness of the richest. This title debates the key issues surrounding vocational education.
Provides the basis for measuring and analysing the cost and value associated with training. This title looks both at manual skills and management training analysis to explore the various approaches for costing training, controlling those costs and applying value analyses to the investment that is being made.
A text for undergraduate and graduate students, offering a framework for examining and establishing effective training programs in education, business, and government. Part I emphasizes the needs assessment and learning processes that form the foundation for training programs in organizations, and P
Helps you learn sales time diagnostics, scheduling your work, recovering scrap time, how to maximise time with prospects, and how to minimise sales meetings. This book also helps you learn the designing of sales territories, the alignment process, realignment of existing territories, territory alignment software, and territory review frequency.
Introducing learning support systems into clinical practice is a major issue for a health professional. This book places support high on the health care professions' educational agenda by explaining why professional learning support is so essential to the development of safe practice in health care.
Presents an analysis of how competence is measured in professional and vocational education, highlighting the fundamental flaws of the system and providing suggestions as to how they might be rectified. This book argues that strategies for vocational and professional education adopted by the UK are founded upon a number of fundamental errors.
This volume explores the pedagogic implications of challenges involved in professional education worldwide. The wide range of professions covered includes accountants, military company commanders, surgeons, nurse practitioners, academics, managers, and more.
Learning about sales letters intersperses the humorous mistakes of a pharmaceutical/medical device salesman as he learns how to write sales letters. This title helps to learn principles of the strategy of writing letters, the parts of a letter, specific letter types, such as the apology letter, and the request for information letter.
A reference for careers advisors, human resource managers, employers, teachers and students, featuring information on over 3, 500 vocational qualifications available in the United Kingdom. It also covers the developments within the field of vocational qualifications, and details of awarding, examining and validating bodies.
An ageing workforce and skilled labour shortage has created the need for workplace learning well beyond middle adulthood. This book presents a competence perspective that treats workplace learning as a trainable skill, rather than as a cognitive function.
This book analyses the experiences of professionals as they continue to learn at work. Although it focuses on learning in the health professions, it draws on research into continuing learning from other caring professions such as education and social services.
The free movement of labour across the European Union, while controversial, brings economic and political benefits that are difficult to quantify. This book examines the continuing difficulty of recognising and establishing equivalence between qualifications and skills associated with particular national contexts.