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Training & Development: Communicating for Success presents a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to developing training programs organized around the Needs-Centered model of training. The text provides students and future trainers with practical “how-to” strategies for training and for designing training programs. Rooted in contemporary instructional communication research, the book suggests that every aspect of developing a training program should be based upon trainee needs. Students are exposed to web-based training and new training technologies and learn how the internet plays a role in training and development. The text also presents students with information about career opportunities in training and development and exercises for practicing and applying what they’ve learned.Features:• Features the Needs-Centered model of training, which gives students a practical overview of the skill steps needed to design and present training programs. (ex. p. xii)• Includes application and discussion questions at the end of each chapter, giving students the opportunity to put principles and skills to the test. (ex. p. 122)• Provides students with in-text examples of needs assessment questionnaires, task analysis, training plans, and other tools that they can use as models when planning their own training programs. (ex. p. 117)• Integrates the most recent research on instructional communication with how-to strategies for dealing with problem trainees, assessing training, and developing training plans.• Contains review boxes, a glossary, chapter objectives, chapter summaries, discussion questions, and application questions to help students remember and apply key principles and skills.• Helps students absorb training principles by modeling the text on the principles it teaches.Table of Contents:Chapter 1. Introducing Communication Training Chapter 2. Mastering How Adults LearnChapter 3. Conducting a Needs Assessment and a Task AnalysisChapter 4. Developing Objectives and Designing a Curriculum Chapter 5. Developing Training Content Chapter 6. Using Training Methods Chapter 7. Using Web Training for E-LearningChapter 8. Using Presentation Aids in Training Chapter 9. Developing Training Plans Chapter 10. Delivering the Training Session Chapter 11. Assessing Learning Outcomes Chapter 12. Becoming a Training Professional