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While upbeat lingo abounds about ‘complementing strategic objectives’ and ‘driving productivity’, the fact is that most training does not make a significant enough impact on business results, and when it does, training professionals fail to make a convincing case about the value added to the bottom line. The vaunted ‘business partnership model’ has yet to be realized – and in tough economic times, when the training budget is often the first to be cut, training is on trial for its very existence. Using a courtroom trial as a metaphor, “Training on Trial” seeks to get to the truth about why training fails and puts the business partnership model to work for real. Readers on both sides of the ‘courtroom’ will learn how to stop viewing training as a cost center, and bridge the gulf between what learning functions deliver and what business units need to execute their strategies. A thought-provoking read for trainers and business unit leaders alike, “Training on … More >>
Training on Trial: How Workplace Learning Must Reinvent Itself to Remain Relevant
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Getting the most out of a 24-hour day is a constant challenge in our busy world: a bottomless inbox, tons of email, millions of meetings, etc. Too much to do and not enough time to do it is a common problem many people face. This guide explains the fundamentals of time management: understanding the value of time, proven ways to get the most out of a day, how to balance work and home, techniques for eliminating time wasters, how to conquer procrastination, and more. While it can be used on its own, this book is best used for the first time as part of instructor-led training…. More >>
Taming The Time Monster: How To Stop Procrastinating, Start Planning, And Get More Done
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Risk Management
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Manage the risk and maximize the reward!
Risk. It’s what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot’s Guide(r) to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully.
•The basic categories of business risk
•How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular business
•How to create practical risk models to plan ahead
•How to lessen the impact of risk events should they happen
•How to profit from strategic risk taking
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Risk Management
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Return on Investment (ROI) remains one of the most challenging and intriguing issues facing human resource development and performance improvement professionals. Drawing on their expertise in developing and implementing ROI programs in human performance and training, Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., Timothy W. Bothell and G. Lynn Snead demonstrate how you can effectively apply ROI to project management.
Today, almost every industry requires employees to manage multiple projects with competing priorities, critical deadlines, and unexpected interruptions-rendering everyone a project manager in some respect. Most employees feel the pressure of juggling any number of key projects simultaneously. Organizations have responded by investing large amounts of both time and money to improve project management, and most strive to justify the efforts and resources dedicated to improving this goal.
‘The Project Management Scorecard’ is a welcome relief for a… More >>
The Project Management Scorecard: Measuring the Success of Project Management Solutions
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Risk is a future phenomenon. As part of our eternal quest to control some small component of our future, it is the focus of many business discussions, thus making it an essential part of our decision making. The challenge comes in creating a degree of consistency in managing risk and the risk process. Risk Management uses a holistic approach, examining risk as a blend of environmental, programmatic, and situational concerns. As a reference volume, it is an encyclopedia of risk management tools, practices and protocols. Its 35 tool-packed chapters cover the latest perspectives, focusing on a systematic approach to risk management. It highlights specific techniques to enhance organizational risk identification, assessment and management, all within the project and program environments. This book is a must-have project management tool for gaining a higher-level perspective on risk management and enhancing organizational risk identification, assessment, and ma… More >>
Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance 4th edition
