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1. some recommended books
   The 2 books that have recently developed my training skills are:

   Accelerated learning handbook by Dave Meier focuses on helping people learn rather than the use of gimmicks which sometimes pass for accelerated learning.

   Magic of Metaphor by Nick Owen excellent collection of stories to inspire your trainees.

2. Recommendation
   I can recommend 500 Tips for Trainers by Phil Race and Brenda Smith (Kogan Page)

   Details of this and other books for trainers here:

   http://www.trainingreference.co.uk/books/trainer_skills.htm

3. Action Learning
   The Action Learning Handbook: Powerful Techniques for Education, Professional Development and Training

   by Ian McGill, Anne Brockbank

   This book truly opens up a powerful technique for those new to action learning, whether working in organisations, business or education. The burgeoning use of learning sets has generated many innovative uses for, and developments in action learning, which are detailed and explored in this practical, accessible book written for educators, trainers and developers.

   Part 1: Starting Action Learning 1
   Introducing Action Learning 2
   Types of Action Learning 3
   Introductory Workshops 4
   Starting a Set: The First and Second Meetings

   Part 2: Understanding Action Learning 5
   Dialogue and Collaborative Learning 6
   Action Learning as a Reflective Process 7
   The Social Context of Action Learning

   Part 3: Facilitating Action Learning 8
   Group Dynamics in Action Learning 9
   Being a Presenter 10
   Being a Set Member 11
   Being a Facilitator 12
   Development and Accreditation of Facilitators of Action Learning

   Part 4: Evaluating Action Learning 13
   The Process Review 14
   Evaluating Action Learning 15
   Endings

   This title is a manual for those new to the techniques of action learning (learning by doing), whether working in organizations, business or education.

4. Best Book on Training
   Training with NLP: Skills for Trainers, Managers and Communicators
   Joseph O’Connor, John Seymour

   Absolutely Brilliant but now out of print. I managed to get one on ebay!

   It focuses less on training and more about the subtleties and how you can train for more retention using subconscious methods.

5. Great Books
   Hi Paul, my favourites are Accelerated Learning for 21st Century by Colin Rose and Malcolm Nicholl, Tools for Engagement by Eric Jensen and 51 Tools for Transforming Training by Kimberley Hare and Larry Reynolds. We’ve a huge reading list of our favourite books on our website at Kaizen-Training.com under ‘free stuff’. Feel free to browse away.

6. More Favs…
   Fully endorse the Colin Rose AL book and also John Seymours/Jo O’Conner (incidentally it isn’t out of print…drop me a line & I’ll forward your details to John). Try also:

   • Training Plus by Brian Clegg
   • Super Teaching by Eric Jensen
   • The Learning Brain by Eric Jensen
   • Facilitation by Trevor Bentley
   • TA For Trainers by Julie Hay
   • NLP For Trainers by Ted Garratt

   They are not necessarily the ‘best in class’ (e.g. John Herons book on ‘Facilitation’ is probably the ‘bible), but I found them an easy read and more importantly, easy to apply the knowledge they contain!

   Good luck!

   Paul