Achieving a Leadership Role for Training: How to Use the Baldrige Criteria and Iso Standards to Keep the Training Function Competitive

What does quality mean for training managers? Everything - considering that none of the aspects of the quality movement can be implemented without effective training.

Achieving a Leadership Role for Training offers training managers and practitioners:

* A blueprint for operating training as a business.
* Guidelines and tools to use to apply quality principles to all phases of training and the development process.
* Checklists to assess your own training organization's competitiveness and business smarts.
* Examples of what other training functions are doing to embrace the quality principles of customer satisfaction, measurable results, leadership, and fact-based management.
* A new approach to identifying leadership for training.

The book endorses setting rigorous standards for training inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes. It describes how to measure actual practice against standards, and use the results to drive continuous improvement.

Judith A. Hale, Ph.D., has dedicated her professional career to helping management develop practical ways to improve individual and organizational performance. Much of her work has been in the development of standards and planning models for the training profession. Her research on standards is used to certify training departments and trainers. She was awarded "Outstanding Member of the Year" by ISPI in 1987. She is the author of The Training Manager Competencies: The Standards.

Odin E. Westgaard, Ed.D., is the author of the 1993 publication Good Fair Tests: Test Design and Implementation and is the editor of ISPI's journal Performance & Instruction. He is co-author of The Instructional Design Competencies: The Standards. His methodology for assessing competence received the "Outstanding Intervention" Award from ISPI in 1988.