The Trainer's Portable Mentor ISBN: 0-7879-9428-6 ● 688 pages List price: $60.00 Special price: $48.00 Available May, 2008 Jossey Bass/Pfeiffer Releases Terrence Gargiulo's, President of MAKINGSTORIES.net new book...

Why is this topic important?

The Training and Development industry covers a vast landscape of disciplines, practices, and opinions that only keeps growing larger. This book holds a titillating collection of articles that cover a wide range of topics from a diverse number of perspectives. And this book puts in one place more authoritative guidance and industry experience from some of the brightest folks in our field that you can find. The book assembles an all-star cast of leading experts in our field. These are just the folks who can offer you enough light to help you avoid the landmines of mistakes that litter the landscape.

What can you achieve with this book?

This all-in-one guide is perfect for anyone new to the field of training and development or a veteran who is looking to be vitalized by quick, succinct practical nuggets that can be put to use right away. This book puts in one place valuable key lessons learned from years of supporting professionals to succeed.

This book is your mentor. It will provide you with information, knowledge, experience and encouragement. It is an atlas of learning maps to help you navigate the terrains of workplace learning and performance.

How is this book organized?

Information is presented in a collection of short articles that are well indexed for fast retrieval. The book is divided into five sections:

1.  Designing Training
2.  Delivering Training
3.  Workforce Performance and Learning
4.  Measurement and Evaluation
5.  Professional Development

Each section has a collection of articles. There is an intro and conclusion to each section. The conclusions will continue the conversations you’ve had with authors while reading the articles. There will be challenging questions for you to consider, opportunities for self-reflection, and suggestions on how to learn more about the section’s topic. The articles vary in length. Except for a small handful, almost all of them can be read in ten minutes or less. Each article begins with a passion statement. These passion statements constitute the heart and soul of the book. Through these passion statements, contributors share with us what they care about most and what they have discovered.

Early Praise for The Trainer’s Portable Mentor

“A great resource for all trainers—from novice to senior—with its wide and diverse range of offerings.  Its format of organizing over 50 articles into five major professional areas, allows readers to easily find information that meets their individual needs. The introduction of each article with the contributor's ‘passion statement’ as well as Terrence's explanation for why the book was written, leads to the expectation that mentoring through the written word indeed will occur. And it does!”   
       —Annabelle Reitman, Ed.D, career management consultant and author

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