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This book describes and analyzes the current state of work-based learning in the US. It begins with a review of the history of work-based learning and its place in policy-making around school reform, which establishes the theoretical and empirical basis for the rest of the book. Based on over five years of research on work-based learning in high school and community college programs across the country, it explores the potential for using work-based learning as part of a broad education reform strategy. The authors emphasize the importance of situated learning in understanding work-based...

A proven program for increasing your management skills

Managing Assertively has helped tens of thousands of businesspeople become more effective managers by sharpening their people skills. Leading management trainer Madelyn Burley-Allen shows you how you, too, can learn to resolve conflicts and defuse interpersonal problems that invariably arise at work. Her step-by-step techniques, clear examples, and competence-building exercises will immediately improve your supervisory skills, sharpen your self-awareness, and make you a more confident, assertive manager. You'll learn how to:...

In recent years, technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. Throughout the industrialized world there is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled. This deficiency can have serious economic consequences, reflected in excessive unemployment, meager growth, impeded competitiveness, excessive wages, insufficient innovation, and deficient product quality. This volume, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, provides a systematic account of all the major market failures in the...

"A different language is a different vision of life."--Federico Felli "Which Foreign Language is Right For Me?" is an invaluable guide for anyone pursuing an education or career in business, and for anyone who is interested in foreign languages.

Through many years of learning foreign languages, traveling to many countries, and making friends all over the world, author Tyler Lyerly shares his knowledge and experiences dealing with languages and cultures with you in order to help you succeed in this language-driven world. There is no better time than now to understand which foreign language...

As the financial industry evolves, industry professionals must adapt to new approaches and ideas to survive, grow, and prosper.

It has become increasingly difficult to maintain a current client base, let alone attract new clients with an investment environment that moves faster than a stock trade. The prospecting market is changing, becoming more challenging and risky, with consumer rights protection such as the 'do not call" lists, with their hefty fines and new compliance requirements. The simplistic and commonsense approach is gone-instead, we have developed a 'brokerese" language that...

"A different language is a different vision of life."--Federico Felli "Which Foreign Language is Right For Me?" is an invaluable guide for anyone pursuing an education or career in business, and for anyone who is interested in foreign languages.

Through many years of learning foreign languages, traveling to many countries, and making friends all over the world, author Tyler Lyerly shares his knowledge and experiences dealing with languages and cultures with you in order to help you succeed in this language-driven world. There is no better time than now to understand which foreign language...

Every organization seeks to provide its employees with learning and development opportunities that are both targeted to their individual needs and produce measurable and worthwhile business results. I

Approaches to Training and Development provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the field of organizational training and human-resource development. It surveys the methods, functions, and goals of training--from needs assessment to implementation--illustrating each step of an effective training program. This new edition includes updates throughout, with fresh examples and current references, with an emphasis on evaluating and explaining new training. Comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, this new edition will prove an essential resource to a new generation of trainers,...

Describes new workforce development initiatives and experiences of women enrolled in a pilot program that helps them attain education through online courses.

Not Just Getting By chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative workforce development initiatives to create flexible and collaborative programs and policies. Author Mary Gatta builds on extensive interviews and focus groups with 128 women enrolled in a U.S. Department of Labor pilot program in New Jersey focusing on how they attain education through online courses while working, raising their children, and dealing with the many demands on their lives.

In the light of changes the government has launched as part of its welfare to work initiatives, this text explores apprenticeship. The authors set the historical context and discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills for competence.

Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size, this book on mentoring for directors and senior executives explains how to sustain learning in people at the top.

Defensive Tactics for the Security Professional is a unique and comprehensive reference for security professionals will teach self-defense tactics and the legality of using them in various circumstances.

Defensive Tactics is a unique and comprehensive reference for security professionals. It covers the psychological, the physical, and the practical aspects involved in training defensive tactics. It stresses the types of situations a security professional could encounter and recommends how to handle them. It draws on the author's almost 40 years of experience.

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Practical Security Training is designed to help security departments develop effective security forces from the personnel screening and selection process to ensuring that proper, cost-efficient training is conducted. Using the building block and progressive method approach allows security staff to become increasingly more effective and more confident. Flexible and practicle, these tools allow security practitioners to adapt them as needed in different environments.

Considering hypothetical situations and case studies, performing drills and continually evaluating performance,...

This book has more ideas on how to add involvement in learning than an y one trainer could ever use. Your students and workshop participants will increase their understanding and retention when you design traini ng activities using 'The Winning Trainer'.

The second edition of this book, guides you through a proven, results-based approach to calculating the return on investment (ROI) in training and performance improvement programmes. Jack Phillips has composed user-friendly ROI calculations, plus: ten post-programme data collection methods; ten strategies for determining the amount of improvement that is directly linked to training programmes; and ten techniques for converting both hard and soft data to monetary values. It should be a useful primary reference for learning how to utilize ROI to show the contribution of training, education,...

The 71 exercises in this book can help you provide students and trainees with the practical experience and knowledge needed to succeed in real-world situations. Drawing from over 15 years of cross-cultural training experience, the author has assembled a diverse number of engaging exercises that can be quickly implemented with minimal effort. Self-administered questionnaires, case studies, culture-focused interviews, and pro and con debates are just a few of the wide range of activities you can use to enrich the classroom.