Training Design Across Cultures : Designing Training for Participants from China, India, and Mexico

ISBN-13: 9783639174625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str.

Christopher Deal

Opis

Highly-effective training plays a vital role in thecurrent and future development of organizationsworldwide. To an ever-increasing degree, trainingdesigners are called upon to design training forparticipants from cultural backgrounds different fromtheir own. Therefore, trainers are asking questionssuch as: 1. To what extent is it necessary to takeculture into account when designing training? 2. Whatare the cultural differences that matter in training?3. How can I adapt my training designs for differentcultures? 4. Is there a framework for designingtraining across cultures? 5. Are there any sampletraining designs that illustrate ways of addressingdifferences? Training Design Across Cultures providesanswers to each of these questions. The frameworkpresented here was called a powerful heuristic tool capable of guiding trainers in their design work, byDr. Judith Ponticell, Professor and Chair,Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Universityof South Florida. I was able to substantiallyimprove the effectiveness of my training through theconcepts and methodologies provided in Dr. Deal swork. Katherine Strous, Learning Consultant, AirFrance-KLM.

O autorze

Christopher Deal, Ph.D. founded the consulting firm Deal
Global and has taught at California State University and the
University of New Mexico. Involved in the intercultural
communication field for 16 years, he has lived and worked in Asia
and Europe for five years, has trained or taught people from 40
countries, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.