Manager's Guide to Breakthrough Learning: Getting Your Money's Worth from Training and Development

by Andrew McK. Jefferson, Roy V.H. Pollock, Calhoun W. Wick

This book fills a need for trainers, participants, and managers by providing a practical guide on how to get the most from a learning and development program. The book offers proven tools that help training participants get the most from the programs and includes the tools necessary to the transfer and application of critical new learning. The book explains how to create an environment that supports the participant's successful transition from program learning to producing valuable results. The tools and suggestions are a formula for success that will add value to virtually any learning and development initiative.

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2009

Reviews

[Paul Signorelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

This follow-up volume to Wick, Pollock, Jefferson, and Flanagan’s "The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning" literally offers flip sides to what managers and learners need to know and do to increase the chances that workplace learning will be effective. One side of this two-sided book is directed to managers and the other side—accessed by turning the book over and reading from the opposite direction—is directed toward learners, allowing both groups to work from a single volume and gain the additional perspective of seeing what the other party’s role is in the learning process. Since this first-rate study guide is firmly grounded in the lessons of "The Six Disciplines," it offers a succinct summary of the longer work while reminding learners that they will gain the most from learning opportunities if they “get ready, get engaged, and get results” (p. 7 of the participants’ guide) and reminding managers that they are more effective with learners if they are “more up-front,” “more engaged,” and “more results-driven” in their interactions with those whose training they are sponsoring and approving (p. 11 of the managers’ guide).