Return on Learning: Training for High Performance at Accenture - Softcover

Vanthournout, Donald

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9781932841428: Return on Learning: Training for High Performance at Accenture

Synopsis

Like most corporations at the turn of the millennium, Accenture was faced with business, economic, and operational changes affecting its renowned internal training program, which shapes and supports the work of its more than 126,000 employees in 48 countries. The company quickly reinvented its training and development capabilities through effective planning and governance, strong leadership, groundbreaking ROI methods, operational rigor, and the application of advanced technologies, as well as "phenomenal learning." This accessible book explains how it happened, and how to apply the lessons to any business.

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About the Author

Donald Vanthournout is chief learning officer and associate partner at Accenture.

Review

"The Accenture veterans who tell this story take readers deep inside Accenture's operations and decision making, so other professionals and companies can benefit from these experiences in using training to achieve high performance."--GoodReads.com

"Executives can't see the dollars-and-sense business case relationship between training, performance and ROI [Return on Learning] makes a compelling case for training = employee engagement = productivity. That s something the bean counters should understand."--Biz Books"

"In Return on Learning, Accenture executives through Donald Vanthournout and company share how they produced an ROI from learning programs. This global consulting and outsourcing company was able to prosper when the rest of the world was in economic downturn. How? They changed their training and employees began to learn new things every day. Accenture's goal with this release is to get companies to understand that investing in training will build not only performance but also the bottom line."--Training Magazine"

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ISBN 10:  1932841180 ISBN 13:  9781932841183
Publisher: Agate, 2006
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