Getting Your Money's Worth From Training and Development by Andrew McK. Jefferson, Roy V.H. Pollock, Calhoun W. Wick

This isn't a page-turning, read-on-the-beach book. That isn't an indictment, just a fact. This is a workbook designed to help you do exactly what the title promises: get more for your training and development dollars.

Actually, this isn't one book, it's two.

One cover is subtitled "A Guide to Breakthrough Learning for Managers." Flip the book over and the other cover is subtitled: "A Guide to Breakthrough Learning for Participants."

When you read the book from the perspective you are most interested in, you will find a surprise in the middle. It ends. And, the next page is upside down (which is the end of the book starting from the other cover)!

This unique and functional approach to creating the book is a telling sign of the usefulness of the content itself. As a workbook it contains specific tools, techniques and templates that you are encouraged to use. Sporting good learning approaches, solid and easy to follow examples are included to make both the concepts and the suggested tasks easy to follow and apply.

If you are a training professional, you will love this book. If you are a passionate learner who gets frustrated by your inability to apply what you learn in workshops, this book will help you. If you are a corporate leader who wants to know how to create a better return on your training investment, this book will give you practical clues as well (but be prepared to get involved and not just hand it off to someone else).

Beach reading? No.

Valuable and practical reading? Absolutely.

If you fit any of the descriptions shared above, this book deserves a spot on your desk - not just your bookshelf.

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