Welcome To The Free Training and Development Resource Center

In a fast paced world, continuous learning is essential to success. Individuals need to learn to succeed in life and at work. Companies need to ensure their employees continue to learn, so they can keep up with increased job demands, and so the company can gain or maintain competitive advantage.

This site provides resources, ideas, strategies, etc to help those involved in the training and development profession help meet the learning needs of the organization through the use of training techniques, facilitation, and development activities.

Of course, there's also material here for learners themselves, and corporate personnel (e.g. those in human resources departments to help them maximize training and learning effectiveness.

Below are the newest training and development items added to our library:

• Effective socialization of employees: socialization content perspective. | Management > Corporate Culture from AllBusiness.com

  By J. Greenhaus - A more academic oriented discussion of the importance of socialization of employees, relevant to onboarding, orientation of employees. (Added: 6-Feb-2009 Hits: 478)

• Tips for Effective Coaching

  By Susan Heathfield - Executives, managers, and others interested in career growth and development increasingly turn to a business coach for a personally tailored development process. HR managers need to get on board as coaches or miss this exciting opportunity to influence the next evolution of management potential. (Added: 6-Feb-2009 Hits: 569)

• Behavior Coaching in the Workplace -an explanation

  By NA - A point form overview of behavioral coaching. (Added: 6-Feb-2009 Hits: 329)

• Return on Investment for Customized Training

  By Howard Community College - Overview and some statistics in support of the use of custom designed training, in tersm of return on investment (Added: 27-Jan-2009 Hits: 550)

• Answers to Your Questions About Executive Coaching

  By S. Dunn - Coaches help executives increase their productivity, quality, work relationships and work satisfaction by increasing their emotional intelligence. They also help the executive define authenticity and values. Skills, training, education and experience will get you in the game, but the higher up you go, the more your emotional intelligence makes the difference. (Added: 22-Jan-2009 Hits: 228)

• The Importance of Having a Good Mentor

  By G. Smith - Whether informal or formal, both parties need to understand the mentoring parameters. These may be more important in a long-term, formal mentoring situation, but can also influence the success of short-term, informal mentoring. (Added: 22-Jan-2009 Hits: 255)

• Becoming a Successful Mentor

  By A.J. Schuler - Focuses on the importance of identify how your mentees learn. (Added: 22-Jan-2009 Hits: 333)

• The Coaching Factsheet

  By CIPD - This factsheet gives introductory guidance. It: explains what coaching is introduces some of the issues and gives guidance on how to tackle them explains the role HR plays in managing coaching activities includes the CIPD viewpoint. (Added: 22-Jan-2009 Hits: 368)

• Cultural Bias in Intelligence Testing

  By na - This activity helps students become aware that so-called "intelligence" is culturally-bound and culturally defined. Attempt short IQ tests for mainstream US/Australian culture, Black-Rap 1960's culture, Australian Aboriginal culture. Ideal for class-room based education about psychology and culture, suited to older adolescents and adults. The tests are written in good humor. (Added: 18-Nov-2008 Hits: 397)

• Bafa Bafa Info

  By na - Bafa Bafa is a well known classic game for use in multicultural training.A cross-cultural simulation activity. Involves two groups being given different sets of cultural rules to role play, then having to work out ways to communicate and solve tasks using their different cultural norms. Simulation Training Systems claims copyright. (Added: 18-Nov-2008 Hits: 436)

• Groups within Groups Exploring Dimensions of Diversity

  By Bonner - This is a longer workshop exploring dimensions of diversity, suitable especially for a retreat. It consists of a series of group within group discussions and sharing sessions. You can set this up using a range of characteristics — including age, gender, class, ethnicity/race, etc. For each topic, the same structure, technique and guiding questions are used. The overall purpose of this activity is to build understanding of, and appreciation for, how people value and interpret their own identity and to build the capacity of a group along issues of diversity. (Added: 18-Nov-2008 Hits: 369)

• Diversity - A Guide For Business

  By Copsdiversityforum - Excellent free (donation requested) guide for businesses looking to foster diversity. Contains exercises, concepts. Get it. (Added: 18-Nov-2008 Hits: 449)

• Vignettes (Case Studies) and Commentaries fo Use in Diversity Training re: racial issues

  By na - Site contains vignettes or case studies, along with commentaries that can be integrated into diversity training. Focus is on race issues, and vignettes relate to various different origins (Latino(a), South Asian, American Asian, Arab/Muslim, African American, etc. Choose what may fit your goals and populations. As always use with care (Added: 18-Nov-2008 Hits: 375)