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Coming in May 2008!
Courageous Training: Bold Actions for Business Results
by Tim Mooney
and Robert O Brinkerhoff

If trainers want to truly make an impact on organizations, what they need is a newbook cover mindset, not a new technique. They need to train courageously--to have the guts to break away from the usual approaches and identify what is really needed and what really works. Featuring numerous real-life stories and case studies, Courageous Training shares the processes, and the the new attitude HRD upstarts around the world are using to achieve results an a radical, non-traditional way. Drawing on examples from major companies and the authors' own years of experience, Courageous Training will show trainers how they can adopt a courageous mindset and achieve more powerful and effective results.

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Building Tomorrow's Talent: A Practitioner's Guide to Talent Management and Succession Planning
Building Tomorrow's Talent book coverby Doris Sims and Matthew Gay

Written by two human resource practitioners who have implemented Talent Management and Succession Planning programs in Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and lived to tell the tale, Building Tomorrow's Talent provides practical ideas and tools to help others create and enhance these programs in their own organizations.



Achieve Sales Excellence: The 7 Customer Rules for Becoming the New Sales Professional
Howard Stevens , Chairman and CEO of the HR Chally Group,
and Theodore Kinni

Achieve Sales Excellence examines the new paradigm of business-to- business sales. This book is based on the results of a fourteen-year study, which asked business customers—the key constituent group of professional salespeople—to define the qualities of world-class salespeople and organizations. It offers unmatched insights into sales performance issues and the practices sales professionals and organizations must embrace to become world-class sales forces.

Telling Training's Story
Robert O. Brinkerhoff

Telling Training's Story book cover Evaluation Made Simple, Credible, and Effective

Robert O. Brinkerhoff, EdD is the premier global thought leader in training evaluation. His Success Case Evaluation Method® (SCM) has been heralded as the simplest, most convincing way yet to measure the business impact of training.

Brinkerhoff’s new Berrett-Koehler release, Telling Training’s Story: Evaluation Made Simple, Credible, and Effective is a must-read. The book provides an in-depth look at the SCM process for uncovering factors that make or break training success, and then effectively managing those factors so that more learning turns into worthwhile performance. The process is based on years of research, rigorous testing, and proven results from global organizations.

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book coverThe Negotiation Fieldbook: Simple Strategies to Help You Negotiate Everything
By Grande Lum

Written by globally respected negotiation expert and Accordence Managing Director Grande Lum, The Negotiation Fieldbook provides proven practices and step-by-step tools for making every negotiation successful -- from office to home and everything in between. Available now at bookstores everywhere.
The Mind of the Customer: How the World's Leading Sales Forces Accelerate their Customers' Success
by Richard Hodge and Lou Schachter

Based on the insights and experience of Advantage alliance partner The Real Learning Company, reveals the astonishing way companies are excelling in today's "brave new sales world."



Managing Knowhow: Add Value…by Valuing Creativity
Karl Erik Sveiby and Tom Lloyd



Navigating Through Change
Harry Woodward, Ph.D. and Mary Beckman Woodward
ISPI Award of Excellence Recipient: High Impact Learning: Strategies for Leveraging Business Results from Training
Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Anne M. Apking, Dale M. Brethower

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(68k pdf)

Posted with permission of the International Society for Performance Improvement. Copyright 2004. Vol. 43, No. 8.
www.ispi.org.


The Success Case Method
Robert O. Brinkerhoff

Find Out Quickly What's Working and What's Not

One Page Business Plan
James Horan






The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations
Peter M. Senge, et al


The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Peter M. Senge


Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher and William Ury


The Power of Learning: Fostering Employee Growth
Klas Mellander

Managing and Motivating Contact Center Employees
By Malcolm Carlaw, Peggy Carlaw, Vasudha Deming and Kurt Friedmann

book coverManaging and Motivating Contact Center Employees provides tips and techniques to boost morale, streamline business processes, and inspire outstanding performance, including:

  • Strategies to get˜and keep˜good call center agents
  • Methods for transforming a group of individuals into a team
  • Proven techniques for building high morale
  • Tips for dealing with problem employees
  • Dozens of fun, self-directed training activities
  • And much more.

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