Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World

Bought this book by mistake. The comments on it makes it seem like a book for people to be prepare for business but it's actually a text book for college. I donated it to the public library.

Not what I expected.

I loved the design of this book, with its multiple viewpoints and formats in each chapter. There's the short opening dialog illuminating the issues at hand, the standard narrative, lots of useful tables and visuals, a sample slide presentation to educate others, and profiles of practitioners. Very rich. Then there's the reference section with a cornucopia of additional resources organized around how much time you have availabe: an hour, a day, or a week. I had a great time exploring these. Finally, it's a very insightful report on the state of the field (human performance technology)and the most critical issues and questions we must confront going forward.