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Makes the business case for an employee engagement initiative. This title demonstrates what it takes to build a programme with the end in mind. By following real case studies that show the Phillips's ROI Methodology in action, you'll learn how to avoid narrowly focusing your efforts on behavioural outcomes alone.

Research shows that emotional intelligence is more important to performance than ability and technical skill combined. But is EI a skill that can be developed in others? Absolutely. Trainer Karl Mulle has developed a collection of complete workshops and tools you'll need to conduct effective two-day, one-day, and half-day emotional intelligence workshop programs.

In this revised and updated edition of The New Social Learning, Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner dispel organisational myths and fears about social media. By sharing the success stories of socially engaged companies and people, they persuasively make the case for using social media to encourage knowledge transfer and real-time learning in a connected and engaging way.

Presents innovative two-day, one-day, and half-day training workshops that help supervisors embrace their new roles and develop supervisory skills in five key areas: promoting communication, guiding the work, leading the workforce, coaching employee performance, and developing themselves.

Measurement and evaluation are key to establishing success and demonstrating the value-add of your programmes, but often L&D professionals launch into this journey with no clear destination in mind. This book leads you to the ultimate destination of real world evaluation, the intersection of learning and evaluation where the two are so intertwined that the activity of evaluation is seamless.

Since the boom of e-learning, informal learning, and social learning, the learning environment landscape has changed dramatically and now offers a wide array of options for face-to-face training. In this book learning strategist Catherine Lombardozzi describes practical ways to customize learning experiences by creating a curated approach to skills development.

Whether you are a subject matter expert who occasionally takes on a trainer role, a trainer who wants to build on solid presentation skills, or anywhere in between, Facilitation Basics will help you create supportive and effective learning. This complete how-to guide is designed to improve your facilitation proficiency so you can give face-to-face as well as online and virtual classroom learners your best.

Belonging on the desk of every trainer, this is clearly written and full of practical ideas and guidelines. Suitable for students, new trainers, training managers, and instructional technicians, as well as teachers and facilitators.

Whether you are developing a first-rate leadership development program from scratch or adding to an existing workshop, let leadership expert and master trainer Lou Russell be your guide. The second book in the ATD Workshop Series, Leadership Training presents a step-by-step blueprint to developing and delivering dynamic, powerful leadership training.

Organize your way to better training projects! Many of our training projects are derivatives of something we've done in the past. So, why would you reinvent the wheel each time you deliver a new training project? There is knowledge to be leveraged! Developing consistent forms can be difficult, but creating and maintaining a repository of training forms is the key to success.

In a tumultuous global business environment, change is a constant. Organizations are effected by many factors from the local economy to global competition. To be successful they must do more than react to changes, they need to be proactive. Organization Development Fundamentals provides a starting point for those interested in learning more about taking this proactive approach.

Develop training content that adheres to today's demanding standards. Geri McArdle's refresh of Training Design and Delivery makes accessible the proven principles and tools that countless trainers rely on. Her third edition highlights new training delivery systems that have had an immediate and far-reaching impact on training. More importantly, it hones in on their technologies.

If you're delving into e-learning and are coming up with more questions than answers, this guide is the high-level overview you've been looking for. In this book, e-learning development experts and educators Diane Elkins and Desiree Pinder deliver a comprehensive examination of the e-learning process from the ground up.

Don¿t wait for a crisis. Maintain business continuity with a succession plan. One hundred percent of top global companies¿and 72 percent of all companies¿have a formal succession planning process. If your company is in the minority, a move in the right direction is easier than you may think. Authored by talent development experts Wanda Piña-Ramírez and Norma Dávila, this workbook highlights the importance of knowledge transfer in a time of fierce competition for talent, an aging workforce, and a critical shortage of people with the right set of skills. Indispensable for the CEO as well as the small business owner, Passing the Torch presents stories from the boardroom to the family-owned bakery, and from the car dealership to the beach resort hotel. This is a book for all with a stake in maintaining the livelihood of a business and contains templates to guide you through the seven steps of the succession planning life cycle. In this book, you will learn: why all companies, regardless of industry or size, must create a succession plan how to create a business case to guide your company through the succession planning life cycle how to identify key positions and retain key people in your company

Evaluate leadership development programs all the way to impact and ROI. Globally, a record amount is being invested in leadership development, more than at any other time in history. And that translates into additional accountability for anyone spearheading a new program. Measuring the Success of Leadership Development offers a proven methodology that will help you step up to the challenge. Yoüll learn how to begin the leadership development process with the end in mind and show return on investment to key stakeholders. Renowned ROI experts Jack and Patti Phillips have joined knowledge organization expert Rebecca Ray to support you every step of the way. This essential guide outlines each step of the proven ROI Methodology and explains how to apply it to driving leadership development program performance and evaluating results. Case studies show the methodology in action across seven successful leadership development programs. If yoüre leading the charge, it¿s crucial that you create and track metrics for your program¿s success. In this book you will learn: how to begin the leadership development process with the end in mind what data to collect to show return on investment to key stakeholders best practices in measurement and evaluation strategies.

The best learning transfer happens when participants have fun! Safety Training That Transfers offers more than 50 activities dedicated to different aspects of workplace safety. Each activity includes an overview, step-by-step instructions, and debriefing questions that reinforce each lesson.

The third book in the ATD Workshop Series, Coaching Trainingtakes a service-oriented approach to workplace coaching. It teaches the essential skills trainers must master to give learners what they need when they need it. Each half-day, full-day, and two-day programme comes with its own agenda and includes online presentation slides, handouts, assessments, and tools.

The notion that only the most experienced members of an organisation can guide a few promising go-getters no longer applies in today's business world. In Modern Mentoring, Randy Emelo advocates for a vastly different mentoring practice. Drawing from a rich career, he explains why organisations should consider all employees potential mentors, making everyone both advisors and learners.

Position your company for innovation and growth as a global leader.

Choose the best career path for you!

Managers are flooded with theories, concepts, and ideas for how to improve employee engagementbut what works, and what doesn't? This book helps managers cut through the clutter of all those strategies and find the one that works for them.

Improve your bottom line by engaging your workforce! Everyone knows engaged employees improve the workplace. The secret is that engaged employees lead to better productivity. When employees are engaged, they do their best work - which improves supervisors' work and personal lives exponentially. It is more important than ever to learn how to create an engaged workforce.

Presents the journey of Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), which created and deployed a leadership development program that relies on its top leaders (even the CEO) to train other leaders. This title helps your organization, too, can learn how to build and implement this vital program.

This business fable highlights 13 talent management principles, illustrating them in action at a fictional company with a charismatic and passionate Chief People Officer.

Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start¿the key to a successful project kick-off. Together, these concepts incorporate contemporary Agile processes that simplify design and development, yielding more energetic and effective learning experiences. This companion Field Guide provides the job aids, tools, and templates you need to put the SAM methodology in motion and take your ISD practice to new heights. Complete with a foreword by Michael Allen, this book is an essential resource to create better, faster training products and ¿move the needle¿ on current training efforts.In this book, you will: Apply the principles and concepts behind Leaving ADDIE for SAM. Update your training products with these contemporary, Agile design processes. Use the job aids, tools, and templates provided to work on actual projects.

Expanding on the leadership development approach introduced in the 2009 bestselling title, Leaders as Teachers, this new action guide shares the experiences of companies where "leaders as teachers" is the driving principle for leadership development. It presents easy to use instructions, as well as supporting research-based data, for developing top-performing leaders.