Moving from Training to Performance: A Practical Guidebook

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Summary: You'll love this.
Review: If you liked Performance Consulting, you'll love Moving from Training to Performance! This book provides a roadmap to guide you in the transition from training to performance improvement. You'll also get expert advice from the top dogs, like Bellman, Brinkerhoff and Fuller.

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Summary: Insightful!
Review: Training professionals are shifting their focus from teaching to improving the performance of individuals and organizations. Dana Gaines Robinson and James C. Robinson have compiled a series of articles by members of the Association for Training and Development that approach this trend from varying angles. The common theme is identified at the start: Trainers are becoming performance consultants, working with companies to improve business performance, learning and work environments. After presenting this foundation, the book traces it through organizational partnering, performance change, large and small departmental organization, and employee alignment. The book serves up a feast of charts, examples, lists, chapter highlights and a profile on each author. It is written for the instructional designer, organizational development consultant, training manager, performance consultant and other specialists. Thus, non-trainers will find it jargon-laden and inaccessible. The multiple authors generate some overlap, but otherwise we recommend this exploration of training's new focus - the bottom line of performance - to everyone in the field.