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If
organisations
are to remain competitive, and develop the highly skilled people that
will contribute to their future performance, improving learning
transfer should be a priority. Cyril Kirwan's book addresses this
critical issue at a number of levels: Firstly, it explores what learning transfer actually is (it's about application of learning back at work, as well as maintenance of that learning over time). Secondly, it describes the main factors that affect transfer, in terms of trainee characteristics, training design factors, and work environment characteristics. It also examines how those factors exert their effect, which ones are more important, how they interact with one another, and in doing so constructs a practical learning transfer model for practitioners. Thirdly, the book describes in some detail what the various factors working for or against learning transfer look like in practice. Finally, using case studies, it points the way towards what can be done before, during and after training to improve the rate of transfer. This highly practical book will help trainers, development specialists and line managers ensure that their training is about real outcomes and not just inputs. (adapted from Amazon.co.uk) Dr Cyril Kirwan is an experienced management and organisation development consultant. He holds a M.Sc. in Work and Organisational Psychology from Dublin City University, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Henley Business School. He is a certified management consultant (CMC), a member of the Irish Institute of Training and Development (MIITD), a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CFIPD) and a Visiting Academic Fellow at Henley Business School. (adapted from Amazon.co.uk) |
Review:
Sticky Wisdom should be required reading for anyone who's ever wondered
how to have more fun at work and profit by it. The basic message is
that creativity is like gold dust but it needs to be practised and
worked at in organisations. It needs to become part of the
organisational furniture. Dave Allan and his co-authors run ?What If!,
a creative consultancy (and the title of the first edition) aimed at
helping businesses move outside the proverbial tramlines and here,
minus the fee, they show how, with activities, games, insights and
general lunacy. The basic premise is that there are six main ways of being more creative--from thinking about things afresh through greenhousing (letting good ideas grow) to bravery (making them happen). Each chapter presents a range of case studies that help ground the activities in a sense of reality--for example one client managed a breakthrough in their advertising for toothpaste when they started seeing their product as liquid teeth. Where many management books are drier than a diver's underpants this has a freshness and zing about it. It keeps you reading and it keeps you smiling too. Sticky Wisdom sends a rocket into the comfortable world of conventional thinking. (Steve Morris, Amazon.co.uk) You can download chapter one for free at http://www.whatif.co.uk (which is worth a visit anyway) |
Book Description This guide will help you track the results of post-training performance. |
Synopsis:
Picking up where her first book left off, Mary Broad offers a "next
generation" update on her 1992 classic text Transfer of Training. In
this new book she translates new research into guidelines, checklists,
and case studies that help practitioners plan and implement proven
transfer strategies, identify high-priority performance requirements,
find key stakeholders as partners for specific projects, coordinate
stakeholder support actions, and evaluate and disseminate outcomes.
(amazon.co.uk) From the inside flap: Beyond Transfer of Training ... includes a step-by-step process tool for consultants and managers to collaborate, analyze performance problems, recruit other stakeholders, develop and implement a performance improvement intervention and evaluate outcomes. In addition, this handy resource
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Synopsis:
This text addresses the problem of how our past or current learning
influences, are generalized and are applied or adapted to similar or
new situations. It illustrates how transfer of learning can be promoted
in the classroom and everyday life. (amazon.co.uk)
Reviewed by Roger Greenaway: This book appears to be
a thorough review of research about the transfer of learning over the
last 100 years from which 11 practical principles are drawn. It looks
like the solid rock on which any transfer strategy should be based. It
isn't. Which is just how Haskell writes: "It isn't", "It doesn't", "It
won't". This relenting chorus shoots away theories and assumptions
about transfer until nothing much is left. The grim news that very
little transfer of learning happens in education or training could make
practitioners feel relatively satisfied with a success rate of only
20%. Haskell points at the failure of research to demonstrate the
effective transfer of learning, but he himself fails to explain
adequately why transfer has such a lamentably poor record. |
Synopsis: This book presents a
straightforward 12-step approach to
results-oriented training that links training courses directly to
important business needs, problems and opportunities. The authors
explain how human resource development professionals can develop
collaborative "client-consultant" relationships with line managers -
and then make the relationships yield better management support for
training efforts.
Review:
"This is a timely book that provides training and development
professionals with practical hands-on tools to document the
contributions of their training efforts. I predict that this book will
serve as THE handbook for future tracking and cost justification of
training and development efforts." Gary Martini, president of Martini
and Associates, Human Resource Consultants. |
See Roger's
review of Learning to Fly (which includes a comparative
review with Nancy Dixon's Common Knowledge)
Practical Lessons from One of the World's Leading Knowledge Companies
Chris Collison, Geoff Parcell
Also see LEARNING
ORGANISATIONS for more books about the transfer of knowledge
within organisations.
Book Description
Learning to Fly shows exactly how to put theory into practice, sharing
the tools used and the experience and insights gained by two leading
knowledge management practitioners. In Learning to Fly, Chris Collison
and Geoff Parcell share their experiences from BP, one of the world's
leading knowledge organisations. It is a practical, pragmatic workbook
packed with hints and tips to help managers put knowledge management
into action immediately.
Evaluation and Research Publications by Yoland Wadsworth | ||
Learn more about 'Building in Research and Evaluation' |
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd;
ISBN: 076196178X Synopsis: A practical introduction to evaluation for students, academics and researchers in the social sciences. The book shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches using an original framework, examines the role of evaluation and shows how to involve stakeholders and disseminate findings. (amazon.co.uk) This book is the prescribed text for the Program Evaluation course at the Centre for Program Evaluation, University of Melbourne. Course description: A conceptual overview of theories, issues and recent practice in evaluation. An inductive/case study approach is used in which recent evaluation practice is analysed using frameworks developed by the lecturers. Topics covered include: conflicting views on its nature and purposes; alternative purposes (summative, formative, illuminative); forms and approaches adopted by external and internal evaluators; evaluation and performance auditing; responsive evaluation; links between evaluation, decision-making and action; planning evaluations; an introduction to various qualitative and quantitative evaluation techniques in data management; reporting evaluation findings; evaluation ethics and standards; and a critical appraisal of selected Australian evaluation studies. |
Book Description:
This book offers practical ways to plan evaluation and develop tools to
record and report learner growth. The underlying theme is that good
evaluation involves the learner throughout the whole learning
experience and is not simply a judgment by an instructor at the end of
a course. The book systematically reviews many aspects of learner
evaluation from different perspectives and provides practical
suggestions about how to conduct evaluation in different contexts to
benefit all concerned. The Art of Evaluation is essential reading for educators and prospective educators who are concerned about the critical role of evaluation in the learning process, and want to know how to improve their own assessment approaches and enable learners to assume active, meaningful roles in evaluating their own learning. Sample pages (html and pdf) |
Book Description: The book encompasses six functions
or levels of evaluation that are keyed to the major stages involved in
the design, development, and implementation of interactive learning
systems or products such as multimedia DVD’s, Web-based
training, electronic performance support systems, and e-learning
solutions. Various chapters in the book link evaluation procedures and
tools to specific design and implementation activities to help novice,
as well as experienced, evaluators plan, conduct, and report better
evaluations. Many of the methods and tools in this book can be used for
multiple functions. This associated Web site includes downloadable
tools and guidance about how to use them in various types of
evaluation. Book Review: Finally, a comprehensive, easy to understand book on the evaluation of interactive learning at a time when most needed and by authors with decades of practical and interesting evaluation experience. This book provides an overview of evaluation components and ethical considerations for the most novice as well as a highly useful set of checklists and forms for those already in the evaluation trenches. (Reviewed by Curtis J. Bonk). See more reviews at the book's website. |
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