Performance-Based Instruction, Includes a Microsoft Word Diskette: Linking Training to Business Results Hardcover - 1998 - 1st Edition

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You know what kind of business performance results you want to achieve?now you'll know how to get there!Goals are easy. You know what the performance and productivity expectations are. The tough part is reaching those goals. In Performance-Based Instruction, Brethower and Smalley take you there. You see the goal, you find the gap between that goal and where you are now, and then you close the gap. Simple, quick, inexpensive, and effective?that's what Performance-Based Instruction is about!Every design systematically draws you through "Guided Observation," where learners experience an example of why and how a task is done; "Guided Practice," where learners practice this job-focused task; and "Demonstration of Mastery," where learners demonstrate their newly enhanced performance. Using these brilliant designs, you will clarify job expectations and foster pride and confidence in employees' work performance. Open this practical book to any page: immediately you'll find your bearings, you'll learn a tip you won't forget, and you'll understand how to apply this tool in your workplace today."This book does a great job of demystifying the instructional design process. When performance improvement is vitally needed?the concerned practitioner would do well to heed Smalley and Brethower's thoughtful advice."Robert O. Brinkerhoff, professor of educational leadership, Western Michigan University"This is the perfect book for these times. In an emerging global economy where the ?bottom-line' is critical, this book provides an approach for getting more performance with less training dollars. And at a time when many traditional training organizations are rightfully considering becoming ?performance departments, ' this book provides a key component for successfully making that transition."Geary Rummler, partner, The Rummler-Brache Group"Instructional designers, training managers and performance improvement specialists will benefit from this book. It could also