Training is about improving overall organizational performance, and no individual is more accountable for a company's performance than its CEO. It follows, then, that Workplace Learning and Performance professionals (a.k.a. trainers) must learn what chief executives hope to achieve through their company's training efforts, and that they must satisfy the expectations of those executives and other key stakeholders.What CEOs Expect From Corporate...
Essential resources for training and HR?professionals
Practicing Organization Development
A Guide for Leading Change
William J. Rothwell
Jacqueline M. Stavros
Roland L. Sullivan
Arielle Sullivan
Editors
Third edition
Practicing Organization Development, Third Edition
Building on its reputation as the most practical, comprehensive, useful, and clearly written handbook on organization development (OD), this new edition of Practicing Or...
Taxpayers deserve the very best from public services, and first-rate public services can only be provided by outstanding government workers. Federal human resource managers face the challenge of attracting and retaining high-caliber individuals within the constraints of ever-tightening budgets and often-conflicting political directives. From a talent management perspective, Optimizing Talent in the Federal Workforce explores: • Best practices ...
In the coming years, escalating retirement and turnover rates among community college administrators and faculty will decidedly create a void for professionals in the workforce development field. Using this book as your field guide, you can expand your range of knowledge and skills, enhancing local institutional and program experience to better respond to local workforce needs.
Presents case studies of how real managers at different levels of government and in different settings addressed the succession challenges. Suitable for government leaders and students interested in government careers, this book examines government succession planning, human capital management, workforce planning and talent management.
Based on research data collected in the last decade, this source describes the 52 competencies identified for success in workplace learning and performance. A CD-ROM lets you benchmark your skills in all 52 competencies against more than 1, 000 WLP professionals.
Although the theory and methods of organization development (OD) assessment and diagnosis have been covered in other books, there is a lack of practitioner-focused guides that introduce real-world case studies and tools rooted in the methodology. This book will fill that gap, providing practical perspective and insight from practitioners and consultants currently practicing OD assessment and diagnosis. Organization Development (OD) differs fro...
Organizational Development (OD) consultants often face dilemmas when they market their services because there is a gap between clients¿ expectation and the actual role of OD consultants. This book is about how to overcome that dilemma by finding effective marketing strategies for a different approach to consulting. Marketing Organization Development: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants focuses on the challenges faced by internal and external con...
Although the theory and methods of organization development (OD) assessment and diagnosis have been covered in other books, there is a lack of practitioner-focused guides that introduce real-world case studies and tools rooted in the methodology. This book will fill that gap, providing practical perspective and insight from practitioners and consultants currently practicing OD assessment and diagnosis. Organization Development (OD) differs fro...
Praise for Performance Consulting
"You hold in your hands an outstanding portrayal of the half-century evolution of performance improvement. Rothwell and his colleagues have written the most comprehensive performance consulting book on the market. From data collection and analysis to implementing solutions, Performance Consulting provides a roadmap to guide you on the path to becoming a successful performance consultant. The roadmap includes ...
This second edition of the best-selling book, Improving On-The-Job Training , provides professional trainers, HR managers, and line managers with a hands-on resource for installing a low-cost, low tech approach to planned on-the-job training program that will improve real-time work performance throughout an entire organization.
The Fourth Edition of a Classic Resource
"Instructional designers are often the standard-bearers of the calculated efforts to improve human performance. They continue to work under the guise of many job titles. They are sometimes called performance technologists, performance consultants, trainers, training and development specialists, workplace learning and performance professionals, learning and performance professionals, instructional devel...
Revised from its 2004 edition, the new ASTD Competency Study is the essential guide for understanding and using the ASTD Competency Model. This book presents the academic research behind the model in a practical, actionable way. Ultimately, it helps training and development practitioners add power to their development plans by honing in on the key competencies and trends that really matter.
Make training more REAL than ever before! You′ve got groups, facilitated by managers or team members, conducting project planning and problem solving. You′ve got relatively few formal trainers and instructors.
