The "Dummies" book series is known for providing comprehensive guides for beginners, and that's exactly what this book does for trainers. Author Elaine Biech is a legend in her field, and she draws upon her extensive experience to provide an outstanding how-to guide.

Supervisors as well as trainers can benefit from this book. It provides step-by-step instructions for developing individual employees and features simple to use guides to help determine which strategies will work best. And, as the name implies, everything can be done on a tighet budget.

Learn strategies and techniques for accelerating employee learning as well as some of the science behind it. This is definitely intended for a more experienced employee trainer, but people new to the workplace learning and performance profession will benefit from reading it too.

There's more to training and developing employees than slapping a PowerPoint presentation together, gathering folks in a conference room, and boring them out of their minds for several hours. Joe Wilmore gives a terrific overview on creating job aids, a tried and true learning tool.

Employee training efforts can fall short when they aren't intimately connected to business goals. This book provides easy to follow examples, tools, and suggestions to help workplace learning and performance professionals ensure their training initiatives deliver real results.