Training And The Bottom Line

This book presents time saving strategies, tactics, and a host of job aids to get the best result from the corporate learning function. It will serve both as a must-have reference tool and as a practical survival guide for workplace learning professionals who face unique challenges in accomplishing their responsibilities. Several strategies and tactics are offered to organize the roles and responsibilities of the training function. There's authoritative advice, too, for managing the function including staff management, communicating expectations, setting the learning agenda, coaching subject matter experts, hiring consultants and vendors, managing content, working with learning portals, setting up and managing a learning resource center, marketing and building internal support for training, and integrating learning into the business.

Apply the best science to all your parenting decisions with this essential A–Z guide for your biggest questions and concerns from the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline Every baby- and toddler-care decision sends parents scrambling to do the right thing, and often down into the rabbit hole of conflicting advice. Dr. Tina Payne Bryson has sifted through the reliable research (including about all those old wives’ tales) and will help you make a manageable molehill out of the mountain of information and answer more than sixty common concerns and dilemmas, including • Breast or bottle? Or breast and bottle? Will that cause nipple confusion? • What’s the latest recommendation for introducing solids in light of potential allergies? • Should I sign us up for music and early-language classes? • What’s the evidence for and against circumcision? • When is the right time to wean my baby off her pacifier? • How do I get this child to sleep through the night?! Dr. Bryson boils things down with authority, demystifying the issues in three distinct sections: an objective summary of the schools of thought on the topic, including commonly held pros and cons; a clear and concise primer on “What the Science Says”; and a Bottom Line conclusion. When the science doesn’t point clearly in one direction, she guides you to assess and apply the information in a way that’s consistent with your family’s principles and meets your child’s unique needs. Full of warmth, expert wisdom, and blessedly bite-sized explanations, The Bottom Line for Baby will help you prioritize what you really need to know and do during the first year of precious life.

Written by leading HR authorities Paul Kearns and Tony Miller - firm believers of the principal 'if you cannot measure it you cannot manage it' - this essential briefing provides you with a practical model you can use, specific tools and techniques, plus invaluable case studies showing tools in use. So you learn to use and begin to measure the effectiveness of your organisation's training and development. Contents include: Getting the basics right A significant breakthrough in evaluation models The changing business case for investing in training and development Reasons for getting evaluation right Business focused training and development Learning and self-development Training Needs Analysis (TNA) Choosing an evaluation model Soft and hard measures Placing evaluation in an national and international context

'Bottom-Line Training' gives you the crucial information you'll need to produce bottom-line results with your training and development program. This book provides you with the tools to train employees thoroughly and effectively so they can significantly contribute to your company's success. Today, training and development programs must prove their worth and 'Bottom-Line Training' guides you step by step through the design and implementation process. It clearly shows you how to: * analyze the true needs of your clients * design training programs that are tailored for your company's needs * develop the program, determining the best style of training for your audience * implement the program, using the most appropriate delivery techniques * evaluate the results for both the trainees and the business 'Bottom-Line Training' will help you boost your company's own bottom line with successful training and development programs that will increase your organization's performance, along with its financial and strategic goals.

This book is a must-read for anyone who has implemented a quality improvement initiative but has not achieved or sustained the desired results. It describes the element that is commonly overlooked by many quality processes; the failure to specifically identify the critical behaviors needed to improve quality and to sustain the quality improvement initiative. The authors provide a detailed understanding of where quality processes typically break down and how they work better with a focus on the right behaviors. The book provides a blueprint for engaging employees in a behavior-based quality system that can achieve significant quality improvement for any organization.

Bottom-line Training gives you the know-how to produce bottom-line performance results with your training and development programs. This book will provide you with the tools to train employees thoroughly and effectively so they can significantly contribute to your company's success. Today, training and development programs must prove their worth and Bottom-line Training guides you step by step through the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation process. It shows you how to: * Analyze the true needs of your organization and clients * Design training programs that are tailored for your organization's needs * Develop training content and materials while choosing the best training delivery methods for your audience * Implement training using the most effective delivery techniques * Evaluate the results for both the learners and the organization Bottom-line Training will help you boost your organization's own bottom line with successful training and development programs that will increase your return on investment in human capital and enable the achievement of strategic goals.