Performance Consulting - Softcover

Robinson, Dana Gaines

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881052842 ISBN 13: 9781881052845

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

The traditional training process confuses training activity with performance improvement by focusing on employees' learning needs, rather than on their performance needs. Traditional programs focus on developing excellent learning experiences, while failing to ensure that the newly acquired skills are transferred to the job. Thus, to be effective, training professionals must become ""performance consultants, "" shifting their focus from training delivery to the performance of the company and its individual contributors. Dana & Jim Robinson describe an approach suitable for use in any organizational setting or industry and with any content area. Dozens of useful tools, illustrative exercises, and a case study that threads through the book show how the techniques described are applied in an organizational setting.

About this title

About the Author:

Dana Robinson is founder/president of Partners in Change, Inc.

Review:

""This is one of the most outstanding books that I have read in the last few years. It speaks directly to the practitioner with relevant application ideas, solid examples, and a sound model that gives direction, yet allows for the individual style of the professional." -- Chuck Kormanski, D.Ed., Career Development and Placement Services, Penn State University-Altoona Campus

"Every HRD manager who wants to have a job past the year 2000 should read this book. . . . The world is changing and HRD must change with it. Dana and Jim Robinson tell HRD managers how they will need to operate to be of real value to their organizations." -- William C. Byham, Ph.D., CEO & President, Development Dimensions International, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1881052842
• ISBN 13: 9781881052845
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 349