At last--a practical guide for getting a real return on your training investment! How much money has your organization lost in the past year because people weren't properly trained? How often have you been frustrated when employees returned from glitzy and expensive courses and kept doing their jobs the same old way? How many hours have you and they wasted getting trained in some fashionable new idea that never really got off the ground in your company? If you're like most managers, your answer is "All too many!" But it doesn't have to be this way. Motorola's ROI from training runs as high as 3300 percent. So can yours. How? The answer is Smart Training--a "consumers guide" to training for managers. In very practical terms, it shows you how to get the greatest return on your training investment. And it works whether you have a large in-house training department, have to contract for training, or have to use canned commercial training. The author is a manager, who's also one of the most innovative thinkers in the training field. He guides you through the bewildering variety of training options and shows you how to get the biggest bang for your training buck. He shows you how to use effective training to maintain your firm's core competence; motivate workers and managers through mastery; and create a true learning organization. He also addresses your nuts-and-bolts concerns, with very practical recommendations and a chart that explains the advantages and disadvantages of every major training method. Whether your organization is large or small, Smart Training will show you how to ensure that training produces real improvement in job performance; keep training costs down at the same time you improve training effectiveness; realistically evaluate high-tech training methods such as multimedia and electronic performance support systems, and use them productively; use low-tech, inexpensive methods--such as job aids and structured on-the-job training-to produce inexpensive but powerful results. Smart Training contains page after page of specific recommendations you can use immediately to make your training program smarter. These recommendations will show you how to get exactly the training your organization needs at the lowest cost. In short, if you're looking for a real return on your training investment--this is the book that will show you how to get it.

Smart Training: The Manager's Guide to Training for Improved Performance

Business & Money

Carr, Clay

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Brand New! Gift Quality! No shelfwear of page coloring; Quality Printing Crisp white paper; Actual Photos of Book!

Solving On-The-Job People Problems: 115 Tough Challenges and Smart Solutions

Albright, Mary

Prentice Hall Direct

Supervisory training teaches you about a lot of things you should do, such as how to prepare a performance appraisal, conduct a meeting, divide up work, or manage your time. What it usually leaves out are all the things you shouldn’t do—the subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes in managing people that could haunt you the rest of your career. Now there’s a comprehensive, instant-answer guide to avoiding over 100 of the most common mistakes made by managers that no business course ever told you about. This valuable career-enhancing guide details where the pitfalls lie, so you can avoid them more easily, as well as how to recover from a mistake quickly and prevent it from happening again. You’ll discover how to avoid such management blunders as: • Not having clear objectives • Delegating the wrong jobs • Being defensive to criticism • Ignoring office politics • Taking on risky projects with little payoff • Solving performance problems with new technology • Getting caught up in the rumor mill • Letting other managers steal away your staff • And much more! Armed with this guide, you don’t have to complete an entire managerial career realizing your mistakes only after you had to suffer the consequences. You’ll know exactly what to do and say in virtually any delicate business situation . . . and boost your success in the process.

101 Biggest Mistakes Managers Make and How to Avoid Them

Finance

Prentice-Hall Press

Now there's a comprehensive, instant-answer guide to avoiding over 100 of the most common mistakes made by managers that no business course ever told you about - until now. This valuable career-enhancing guide details where the pitfalls lie, so you can avoid them more easily, as well as how to recover from a mistake quickly and prevent it from happening again. You'll discover how to avoid such management blunders as not having clear objectives, delegating the wrong jobs, being defensive to criticism, ignoring office politics, taking on risky projects with little payoff, solving performance problems with new technology, getting caught up in the rumor mill, letting other managers steal away your staff, and much more!

Offers advice on how to handle high staff turnover, office romances, tardiness, stress, substance abuse, and missed deadlines

The Manager's Troubleshooter

Team Leader's Problem Solver

Contains business-tested solutions for the common and not-so-common management problems faced by today's team leaders. Paper. DLC: Work groups.

Prentice Hall Pr

This manager's sourcebook contains over 100 different examples of problems commonly faced by teams, along with probable causes and proven solutions. It also includes business-tested techniques for building consensus, solving interpersonal conflicts, and eliminating performance problems.

Addresses 125 of the most difficult people problems you'll ever have to face - everything from unproductive workers and goof-offs to messy office romances and insecure bosses. Paper. DLC: Supervision of employees.

The Manager's Troubleshooter: Pinpointing the Causes and Cures of 125 Tough Day-To-Day Problems

Fletcher, Mary

A guide for managers discusses how to put teampower to work in their organizations and develop the skills needed to move from a hierarchical management structure to a system that allows greater employee involvement and responsibility

Teampower: Lessons from America's Top Companies on Putting Teampower to Work

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Books by Carr, Clay

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Smart Training: The Manager's Guide to Training for Improved Performance

Solving On-The-Job People Problems: 115 Tough Challenges and Smart Solutions

101 Biggest Mistakes Managers Make and How to Avoid Them

101 Biggest Mistakes Managers Make and How to Avoid Them

The Manager's Troubleshooter

The Manager's Troubleshooter

Team Leader's Problem Solver

Team Leader's Problem Solver

The Manager's Troubleshooter: Pinpointing the Causes and Cures of 125 Tough Day-To-Day Problems

Teampower: Lessons from America's Top Companies on Putting Teampower to Work