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$a THE NEW TRAINING LIBRARYContemporary training and performance improvement ideas, strategies and techniques for managers and HRD professionalsWelcome to The New Training Library . Before you read on, there are a few things you should know about this series of books and how it came into existence. Each book in The New Training Library contains articles originally published in: TRAINING Magazine, The Training Directors Forum Newsletter , Creative Training Techniques Newsletter , or The Lakewood Report On Technology for Learning Newsletter, all Lakewood publications that explore contemporary human resources development issues, trends and ideas from different angles and perspectives. While there is some overlap among the books in the series, each of them stands on its own. Our editors selected articles to illuminate a particular theme or subject area - from the dynamics of adult occupational learning, to managing and running a corporate training function, to designing cost-effective training programs, to powerful performance consulting. And more. The pervasive style of the selected articles is that of magazine and newsletter journalism, opinion and commentary. In this accessible, nonacademic style, the authors address the real and immediate challenges you face as practicing HRD professionals or as managers and motivators of people. The edited articles are contained between the covers of the books in The New Training Library . Not, to repeat, as the definitive texts or final words on any one subject area, but as books that serve a different and (depending upon who you are ) maybe even more useful purpose. As the training profession evolves, it demands a solid understanding of the original ideas, theories and systems that shaped its development. Today`s training professionals also must be prepared to absorb, assimilate and put into perspective an astonishing amount of new information. Like uoctors, lawyers, bankers or other professionals, HRD professionals can never stop leaning. Not if they want to be effective. Certainly not if they want to get ahead. The publications that form the core of The New Training Library have become among the most widely read and influential in the field because their editors have never forgotten that fundamental need. In addition to featuring the best writers, theorists and practitioners in HRD, each publication also meets the HM professional`s need to understand the newest techniques, strategies and approaches to tough workplace challenges within the context of the established body of HRD knowledge.Thus, each publication I`ve discussed here is carefully balanced to appeal to relative novices in HRD as well as to seasoned professionals. And so are the books in The New Training Library, which represents a comprehensive and systematic collection of current ideas and practical responses to meeting workplace challenges (in many cases, articulated by those who first formulated them) within the context of HRD`s most enduring, time-tested fundamentals. In other words, these books manage to be both timeless and relevant to the challenges you now face in the rapidly evolving American workplace. Plus, the books in The New Training Library are designed so you can find useful information fast. And with that information, you probably can meet a challenge, solve a problem or defuse a crisis right away. It`s a fact that HRD changes constantly, especially today. But I think you`ll find, due to the care with which the contents of these books were selected and to the editorial strengths of the publications in which this material first appeared, The New Training Library series will be as useful many years from now as it is today.of
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