Trainer Basics

How This Book Can Help You on Your Way

So, if you’ve found that you have a need for a book entitled Trainer Basics, you’ve begun an interesting journey, but one you won’t need to travel alone. Together we’ll explore the basics of what training is, where it came from, and where it may be going. We’ll look at what makes a good trainer and the misconceptions that create poor ones. Along the way we’ll discuss how adults learn, how good teachers teach, how proper planning ensures good training, and how we can determine if the training was not only good, but successful, which is often a very different thing. We’ll meet designers, facilitators, performance technologists, instructional technologists, sales trainers, and for good measure, we’ll learn ...