The CEO's Guide to Training eLearning & Work

<p><strong><em>The Book</em></strong></p><p><em>The CEO's Guide to Training eLearning & Work</em> is the definitive guide for senior leaders and learning professionals in the art and science of workplace learning and performance improvement. Will Thalheimer's culminating masterwork shows senior leaders how to gain a competitive advantage through their organization's learning and development efforts. At the same time the book empowers learning professionals to confidently coalesce around foundational principles values and research-inspired best practices. In short the book enables senior leaders and learning professionals to have a productive relationship focused on leverage points that matter.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>The Author</em></strong></p><p>Will Thalheimer draws on three decades at the forefront of the research-to-practice movement in the workplace learning field and on his experiences as a consultant to hundreds of organizations-including such giants as the Navy Seals Oxfam the World Bank Bloomberg the United Nations the Gates Foundation Genentech Proctor & Gamble the CDC MIT innovative elearning startups and more.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>The Book Design</em></strong></p><p>Designed to be an easy read-many chapters are two pages long-Thalheimer augments his concise hard-hitting chapters with in-depth chapter notes for those who want to dig deeper learn more or review the research inspirations for the ideas shared.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Empowering Learning Teams</em></strong></p><p><em>The CEO's Guide to Training eLearning & Work</em> not only provides essential wisdom but it also elevates a new goal for learning teams-creating a competitive advantage for their organizations and learners. With competitive advantage as a guiding purpose learning professionals can reimagine and energize their practices build stronger partnerships with senior leaders and empower themselves to greater autonomy and full effectiveness.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Competitive Advantage</em></strong></p><p>For too long organizations have accepted modestly good results from their learning teams-and learning teams have acquiesced to outcomes beneath their own aspirations. With this book Will Thalheimer makes clear that there is another way-and that way enables a competitive advantage.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Testimonials from Thought Leaders</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>Read this book. Encourage anyone associated with workforce learning to read this book.</em></p><p>-- RUTH CLARK Co-Author <em>eLearning and the</em> <em>Science of Instruction</em>.</p><p></p><p><em>Another excellent offering from Will Thalheimer... straightforward and practical guidance. Ignore at your peril.</em></p><p>-- ROBERT BRINKERHOFF Author of <em>Telling Training's Story</em>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>-- DONALD CLARK Author of <em>Artificial Intelligence for Learning</em>.</p><p></p><p><em>Will Thalheimer continues his no-nonsense no-holds-barred style to speak truth to power.</em></p><p>-- ROY POLLOCK Co-Author <em>Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>-- RICHARD E. CLARK Professor Emeritus USC.</p><p></p><p><em>The book's brilliance lies in its clarity and directness. It's a roadmap for CEOs and learning professionals alike.</em></p><p>-- STELLA LEE Paradox Learning.</p>