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Book The ASTD Leadership Handbook

Download or read book The ASTD Leadership Handbook written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A looming leadership gap faces most organizations over the next 10 years. Has your organization prepared for the imminent lack-of-leadership crisis? Do you have a pipeline of developed leaders for the future? Leadership is the most important competency for both individual and organizational success and advancement. As Cynthia D. McCauley of the Center for Creative Leadership notes in her overview, leadership is also "a tool designed to help with a particular human dilemma: how to get individuals to work together effectively to produce collective outcomes." When you need to learn more about how to drive success in your organization, where do you turn? To the experts. And The ASTD Leadership Handbook provides 48 thought leaders—the names you know and have come to trust—to enable you to learn about every facet of leadership. Here you'll find a substantial and practical collection of wisdom, philosophies, and tools from the most respected authorities on the subject. Within this impressive volume, you'll find five major sections addressing the critical aspects of the field: Leadership Competencies Leadership Development Attributes of Successful Leaders Contemporary Leadership Challenges Broadening the Leadership Discussion. In each chapter, leaders share their expertise to help you solve your most pressing leadership challenges. Get the complete table of contents here. The lineup includes leading experts from a broad range of organizations in both the public and private sectors and features a number from the Center for Creative Leadership (ranked by the Financial Times as one of the top three leadership development organizations in the world). Many of the authors also provide free tools, which you can get here. If you can invest in only one leadership book, let this be it. You'll have all the insights and applications you need to thoroughly understand and practice its principles, guided by the expertise of those who have literally written the books on leadership.

Book The ASTD Leadership Handbook    Summary

Download or read book The ASTD Leadership Handbook Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Therapeutic Exercise

Download or read book Therapeutic Exercise written by Carolyn Kisner and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, Kisner & Colbys 6th Edition offers the most up-to-date exercise guidelines for individualizing interventions for those with movement disorders.

Book ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals

Download or read book ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals written by Elaine Biech and published by American Society for Training and Development. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training

Download or read book The ASTD Handbook of Measuring and Evaluating Training written by Patricia Pulliam Phillips and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The ASTD Handbook of Training Design and Delivery

Download or read book The ASTD Handbook of Training Design and Delivery written by George M. Piskurich and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-11-26 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book ASTD Handbook

Download or read book ASTD Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 2006 ASTD Organization Development and Leadership Sourcebook

Download or read book 2006 ASTD Organization Development and Leadership Sourcebook written by Mel Silberman and published by ASTD. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for a sourcebook of cutting edge OD and leadership tools that can be used and adapted immediately, this book is for you. Trainers, coaches, consultants, and team leaders will find this book an invaluable resource with its dozens of instruments, handouts, and practical guides for creating ready-to-use training materials. Written by 47 world-class consultants and facilitators, ""The 2006 ASTD Organization Development & Leadership Sourcebook"" allows you to customize games, exercises, learning activities, assessment instruments, handouts, tip sheets, and implementation guides materials you need by downloading all them from the accompanying CD-ROM. Focusing on the hottest topics facing organizations today, this one-of-a-kind resource is a field-tested guide that will allow you to develop stronger leaders and healthier organizations.

Book Measuring Leadership Development  Quantify Your Program s Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance

Download or read book Measuring Leadership Development Quantify Your Program s Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance written by Jack Phillips and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prove the financial value of your programs—so funders can’t say no “Not measuring the impact of leadership development is like dieting without weighing-in. This outstanding book offers a very logical and practical approach to measuring the impact of leadership development.” —Dave Ulrich, Professor, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and partner, The RBL Group “This book explains many of the reasons why current leadership development practices miss the mark. A must-read for anyone who wishes to implement a meaningful strategy for developing leaders in their organization.” —Rajeev Peshawaria, Executive Director and CEO, iclif Leadership and Governance Centre “Leadership development is an area we instinctively know we need in organizations, but we struggle with how to link it to results. Patti, Jack, and Rebecca make measurement a clear and simple process.” —Whitney Hischier, Assistant Dean, Center for Executive Education, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business “Measuring Leadership Development is one of the best business road maps I’ve seen in quite some time. These three doctors of philosophy offer the right prescription for ailing corporations in today’s business climate. I highly recommend it as an essential navigational tool in any corporate handbook.” —Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers MOJO and What Got Your Here Won’t Get You There “In addition to synthesizing and integrating various streams of information into something meaningful and compelling, the authors outline the fundamental questions that anyone who truly cares about making a difference should answer and they also provide pragmatic approaches and applications to insure high impact.” —Teresa Roche, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Agilent Technologies About the Book: Leadership development is one of the driving forces behind strong organizational performance. However, when executives look to run their organizations leaner, they view it as a luxury. Now, Measuring Leadership Development gives talent managers a full toolkit for presenting their leadership development programs in terms of identifiable business benefits, including—for the first time—an accurate bottom line for return on investment in the program. Jack and Patti Phillips have set the standard for ROI Methodology, and here, with Rebecca Ray, they show you how to measure, in real numbers, the impact a leadership development program has on an organization. This complete package gives you sought-after advice for developing leaders with a conveniently measurable, results-based approach as well as the tools you need to collect, analyze, and report relevant data. With this one-of-a-kind book, you can get up and running fast to: Design, deliver, and sustain a periodic ROI evaluation process Provide executives and stakeholders with the confirmable data they demand in terms they understand Use your evaluation data to drive improvement in your organization Effectively value the ROI of a leadership development program using the same standard ratio accountants use for equipment and buildings Colorful case studies from some of the world’s best-known companies illustrate how to establish best practices and avoid common pitfalls. You will turn to this book again and again for its authoritative, go-to advice and techniques. Take the lead in improving your company’s performance with Measuring Leadership Development.

Book Encouraging the Heart

Download or read book Encouraging the Heart written by James M. Kouzes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlookedand under utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutualrespect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heartshows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they workwith by helping them find their voice and making them feel likeheroes. Recognized experts in the field of leadership, authorsJames Kouzes and Barry Posner show us that, through love, leaderscan encourage, and indeed allow those around them to be their verybest. Both practical and inspirational, Encouraging the Heart givesreaders a thoughtful approach to motivating individuals within anorganizational structure. Read Chapter 3 or Chapter 12, or see The Encouragement Index.

Book The ASTD Management Development Handbook

Download or read book The ASTD Management Development Handbook written by Lisa Haneberg and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The ASTD Management Development Handbook

Download or read book The ASTD Management Development Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Not the work of a single, isolated management consultant, The ASTD Management Development Handbook is instead a collection of the best and most current thinking from a wide range of contemporary management experts. Presented in a variety of styles and focused on different aspects of management, the pieces contained in The ASTD Management Development Handbook nonetheless share a common purpose and vision: to provide lessons, wisdom, and perspectives that are deeply relevant for leaders and trainees in todays challenging corporate environment.

Book ATD s Action Guide to Talent Development

Download or read book ATD s Action Guide to Talent Development written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Started Now. Take Action. Staying ahead of change in the world, your organization, and your profession requires action. You learned a lot to launch your organization’s talent development effort. As you position it for the future, what you need to know grows exponentially. As futurist Ray Kurzweil once said, “If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.” How do you prepare for exponential growth? In ATD’s Action Guide to Talent Development: A Practical Approach to Building Organizational Success, industry expert and bestselling author Elaine Biech lays out the steps you can take. The companion volume to ATD’s Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization’s TD Effort, this book follows an eight-step framework for defining your organization’s learning foundation through preparing for the future. You are your organization’s trusted advisor, and Biech offers practical questions, organizational assessments, and tips for each step you must guide your organization through. She also presents the newest thinking from university educators and researchers that organizational experts have relied on for years, as well as from industry practitioners and luminaries in leadership and development. Open this book to any page. Jump in where you think it will be most beneficial to you or your organization. Whether you work inside a company or as an external consultant, whether you work for a large organization or a small one, whether you are launching your first talent development effort or fine-tuning a function that’s been in action for decades—you are sure to find valuable concepts, designs, and ideas. Get started now. Take action.

Book The ASTD Management Development Handbook

Download or read book The ASTD Management Development Handbook written by Lisa Haneberg and published by ASTD. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ASTD Management Development Handbook is a powerful and useful collection of writing covering many aspects of management in today's business climate.

Book ATD Talent Management Handbook

Download or read book ATD Talent Management Handbook written by Terry Bickham and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Developing Your Global Mindset

Download or read book Developing Your Global Mindset written by Mansour Javidan and published by Beavers Pond Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Najafi Global Mindset Institute's new book, Developing Your Global Mindset: The Handbook for Successful Global Leaders, is full of practical and engaging ways to develop a Global Mindset for success in global business. This book is a must-have resource guide for managers and leaders who are in global roles or who have global responsibilities.In consultation with managers, executives, and very experienced international executive coaches, NGMI has put together a series of recommendations and ideas on how a manager can improve on thirty-five scientifically defined capabilities within Global Mindset. All of the ideas are actionable, specific, and easy to implement. The development tips may be used by individuals or by direct reports, coaches, and teams. In addition to a rich variety of development suggestions, engaging narratives throughout the book illustrate the components of Global Mindset in action.The contributing authors also use their unique international experiences to bring Global Mindset to life in seven intriguing case studies. The case studies transport the reader into complex, real-world scenarios that cross geographic and cultural borders, and identify ways to successfully influence diverse others while working within the complex and fast-paced world of global business. The case studies may be used for individual development through self-reflection or in teams, where the discussions will no doubt be lively.

Book Compass  Your Guide for Leadership Development and Coaching

Download or read book Compass Your Guide for Leadership Development and Coaching written by Peter Scisco and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for leaders and managers looking to develop themselves and others. It is for training & development professionals, inside or working as independent consultants, who can use the book as a coaching tool, a blueprint for leader development plans, and in other ways .For leaders concerned with their development, dedicated to developing their people for more responsibilities, and committed to organizational sustainability, this book will help in those efforts.