Performance-Based Instruction, Includes a Microsoft Word Diskette: Linking Training to Business Results

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Wiley, Mar 27, 1998 - Business & Economics - 229 pages
Do you need some performance magic NOW?

You see the performance and productivity expectations. Now you needa little magic to make them happen. The magic is here! With thisbook as your guide, you'll pinpoint the goal, you'll find the gapbetween that goal and where you are now, and then you'll close thegap. Simple, quick, inexpensive, and effective--that's whatPerformance-Based Instruction is about! using these brilliantdesigns, you will clarify job expectations and foster pride andconfidence in employees' work performance.

When performance improvement is vitally needed?the concernedpractitioner would do well to heed Smalley and Brethower'sthoughtful advice.
--Robert O. Brinkerhoff, professor of educational leadership,Western Michigan University

This book gives you the tools you need to:

* Conduct on-the-job training
* Establish team training
* Design job aids
* Perform needs assessments
* Evaluate training...and more!

The User's Manual appAndix gives you specific pointers on usingthis book as a guide in an HRD department, as a text in an academicsetting, or as a professional development tool for solopractitioners. The enclosed Microsoft Word diskette gives you anelectronic, customizable source of quick-implementation job aids.It's all here. Grab this book of spells, add a dash of attentivework, and create some performance magic today!

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Contents

A PARADIGM FOR THE TWENTYFIRST CENTURY
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Converting to PerformanceBased Instruction
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like to acknowledge a few individuals alphabetically along with the chapters that
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Copyright

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About the author (1998)

DALE M. BRETHOWER is a professor of psychology at Western Michigan University, teaching courses in training and development, performance management, and behavioral systems analysis. KAROLYN A. SMALLEY is a performance and instructional systems consultant who specializes in process improvement projects, performance management systems, and instructional systems.

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