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pt. 1. Getting Yourself Ready: Preparing to Lead. Ch. 1. Building a Foundation for Leading. Ch. 2. Learning, Habits, and Levels of Knowledge -- pt. 2. Getting Your Clients Ready: Defining Success. Ch. 3. Investigating Needs and Planning a Workshop. Ch. 4. Planning to Evaluate a Workshop. Ch. 5. Contracting Outcomes and Marketing Prior to Start-Up -- pt. 3. Getting The Workshop Ready: Planning to Achieve. Ch. 6. Designing a Workshop. Ch. 7. Organizing a Workshop. Ch. 8. Preparing and Using Visual Aids. Ch. 9. Conditions for Workshop Success -- pt. 4. Getting Underway: Starting Up a Workshop. Ch. 10. First Steps in Starting Up a Workshop. Ch. 11. Contracting Group Process During Start-Up -- pt. 5. Getting It Done: Leading a Workshop. Ch. 12. Moving, Adapting, and Ending a Workshop. Ch. 13. Working with Questions. Ch. 14. Involving, Motivating, and Maintaining Interest. Ch. 15. Presenting, Facilitating, and Leading. Ch. 16. Managing Participation in a Workshop -- App. A.A Process Cycle Definition of Workshops and Training Programs -- App. B. To Train or to Consult? -- App. C. Examples of Training-Program Outcomes -- App. D. An Assortment of Models for Writing Outcomes -- App. E. Examples of Level-1 Evaluation and Pre-Evaluation Forms -- App. F. Rights and Responsibilities of Participants and the Workshop Leader.

Here is the most comprehensive guide to leading a training session or workshop ever published. This 'soup-to-nuts' reference answers just about every question a trainer/facilitator might have about leading a successful training program, from motivating participants to measuring the results. Based on 25 years of workshop experience, the book features hundreds of professional tips and tricks, plus reproducible materials to use at every step of the training process.