Effective Training emphasizes the need to combine learning and design theories for successful training programs and provides a step-by-step process for developing learning objectives. Authors P. Nick Blanchard, James W. Thacker, and Dana Cosby consider the small business perspective while introducing the ADDIE model as an overarching framework for the training process and examining the relationship between change management and training. 

The Seventh Edition offers a greater focus on essential course concepts with the removal of the chapter opening cases and boxed readings that distract from this objective. At the end of each chapter are discussion questions, cases, and exercises to enhance understanding.