The ASTD Management Development Handbook


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The ASTD Management Development Handbook is a powerful collection covering many aspects of management in today’s business climate. Deftly edited by management expert Lisa Haneberg, The ASTD Management Development Handbook provides insightful thinking from modern management professionals who are in touch with the issues, challenges, opportunities, and dynamics present in contemporary corporate culture. While writing in a range of styles and on a variety of management- and leadership-related topics, these contributors have in common a great deal of real-world managerial experience, passion for their area of expertise, and a desire to share their cutting-edge thinking on best management practices. Through this handbook, you will gain a greater understanding of: complexity, power, and energy dynamics within organizations workplace cultures where authenticity, openness, quality, community, happiness, and recognition flourish the manager’s role in creating organizational culture developing, leading, and maintaining successful teams exploring management as a social act creating, inspiring, and engaging productive workplaces. The ASTD Management Development Handbook suffers from no blind spots or filler chapters. Instead, it is a vital, cohesive compilation of the most current thinking on modern managerial practices available today, filled with concise, focused, and pragmatic lessons and wisdom.




The ASTD Handbook of Training Design and Delivery


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This comprehensive companion volume to the bestselling ASTD Training and Development Handbook (Craig, ed.) helps trainers design classroom, self-study, or technology-based training programs. Delivering the latest information on how adults learn best and human performance technology, it shows trainers how to prepare lesson plans, create visual aids, and deliver highly memorable presentations.




The ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training


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A follow-on to ASTD's best-selling ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals, the ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training includes more than 20 chapters written by preeminent practitioners in the learning evaluation field. This practical, how-to handbook covers best practices of learning evaluation and includes information about using technology and evaluating e-learning. Broad subject areas are evaluation planning, data collection, data analysis, and measurement and evaluation at work.




ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals


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Here's the ""must have"" reference book for anyone involved in training, human resources development, and workplace learning. Published by the most trusted name in the industry, ""The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals"" is a required tool for all learning professionals. This practical ""go to"" resource is a new contribution to the field, comprising 50+ chapters, each authored by renowned industry practitioners. The handbook offers the most up-to-date methodologies and practices covering the entire range of the training and development profession and also includes valuable worksheets and tools on a companion CD-ROM.




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The ASTD Training and Development Handbook: A Guide to Human Resource Development


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A Treasure of Performance-Boosting Tricks for Trainers! The best training and development handbook ever published just got bigger and better! The ASTD Training and Development Handbook, Fourth Edition, by Robert L. Craig, is bursting with great new training ideas that'll help you work your magic in your organization. Top industry leaders give 100s of practice-proven techniques you can use right now to: Develop effective leadership skills; Exploit self-directed learning to meet empowerment, continuous improvement and other quality goals; Maximize an increasingly diverse workforce; Select and develop professional training staff; Design customized instructional systems; Build employee participant and involvement; Promote computer literacy in your workplace; Prepare for organizational development and change; Sell management on the importance your HR programs; Measure and evaluate training results; Much more!




ATD Talent Management Handbook


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What you need to know to manage a workforce. The complex and ever-changing nature of today’s—and tomorrow’s—workforce demands that all involved in talent management rethink how to attract, engage, and grow future talent. This forward-looking handbook captures talent management’s evolution from a series of transactions to a fluid process that includes talent development. With 20-plus chapters written by more than 30 contributors, the ATD Talent Management Handbook challenges you to think about the talent model of the future through the lens of different workforce models. It offers progressive thoughts on the current state of talent management and on how the function needs to adapt. Leaders, practitioners, and consultants alike will find useful insights and answers to relevant talent management challenges. Edited by learning and development authority Terry Bickham, this handbook covers the entire talent management cycle, from talent acquisition and engagement to leadership development and succession planning. ATD’s first handbook on talent management, this book includes a foreword by ATD President and CEO Tony Bingham, highlighting the foundational components of talent development and its role within talent management.




Management Development Training


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Develop Winning Managers—the Heart of the Team Frontline managers are an organization’s first level of management: the “people managers” across its business operations and functions. Developing frontline managers is key to an organization’s overall health and prosperity. The latest book in ATD’s successful Workshop Series, Management Development Training offers trainers of all expertise levels the tools and strategies necessary for delivering powerful professional development training for frontline managers. Through Management Development Training, training facilitators can apply ATD’s research-based ACCEL Model—a management framework that includes five core skills necessary for managerial success (accountability, collaboration, communication, engagement, and listening and assessing)—to take new and experienced managers beyond their roles as the centers of their teams to the powerful roles as the hearts of their teams. This workshop volume demonstrates how the development of these skills can help managers positively impact every member of their team. With expert management trainer Erica Nelson as your guide, choose between uniquely designed two-day and three-day workshops. Everything you need for workshop design and delivery is included: agendas, assessments, handouts, tools, learning activities, and PowerPoint slides. Chapters also cover customizing your own workshop, conducting needs analysis, facilitating, design and delivery, and evaluating your workshop results.




The Manager's Guide to Employee Development


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As managers, we are expected to hold career and professional development discussions with our employees, although many of us feel ill-equipped for these conversations. Are you unsure how or where to begin with your employees’ development? Perhaps you want to brush up on how to create more meaningful development plans? This TD at Work is a primer intended for managers, human resources professionals, and others. It is a practical, go-to guide that will explain: · why career development is important to the organization, employee, and manager · who is responsible for specific aspects of the employee development process · how to facilitate the employee development process · the characteristics of a strong individual development process · how to lead successful development discussions




The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity Management


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This pocket guide will expose the business opportunity that underpins the support of diversity in today's organizations. Learn how to improve workplace productivity by bridging organization goals with diversity imperatives in areas like recruitment, retention, team building, and service.