Pfeiffer imprint: 100 books
Common Sense Talent Management
Using Strategic Human Resources to Improve Company Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
A comprehensive guide to using strategic HR methods to increase company performance. This book explains what strategic human resources means, how it differs from other HR activities, and why it is critical to business performance. It walks through key questions for designing, deploying and integrating...
Closing the Execution Gap
How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Praise for Closing the Execution Gap
"I got half way through the introduction and was hooked. The book's premise—strategic thinking used to be a leader's main focus but surprisingly that's not enough—gave me confidence that my efforts to drive execution are not in vain. Many of the...
Meaningful Workplaces
Reframing How and Where we Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"Anyone who has a position of leadership in your organization should read Meaningful Workplaces. From the CEO to the front-line manager, this book will change the way people think about work. It is truly a must read for people creating the workplace of the future."
-- Paul Butler, Managing...
Fearless Facilitation
The Ultimate Field Guide to Engaging (and Involving!) Your Audience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed. Written by two facilitation gurus, this book shows how to make any learning environment come alive. It outlines...
RESPECT
Delivering Results by Giving Employees What They Really Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Is it possible that the way to win in business is to give employees exactly what they want? Yes. As RESPECT reveals, managers and organizations who give their employees what they want outperform those who don't. This is no hunch – it's a fact based on more than 25 years of global research. Drs....
The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development
Tools, Techniques, and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The Trainer's Handbook of Leadership Development offers facilitators, human resource professionals, and consultants a wide-variety of tools and techniques for developing leadership competencies and characteristics. Drawing on research from such giants in the leadership field as Warren Bennis, Ken...
Developing Talent for Organizational Results
Training Tools from the Best in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Praise for Developing Talentfor Organizational Results
"Elaine Biech brings together some of the 'royalty' of American corporations and asks them to share their wisdom in increasing organizational effectiveness. In 46 information-filled chapters, these 'learning providers' don't just sit...
The Business of Consulting
The Basics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Designed as the go-to reference for managing a consulting business, The Business of Consulting is candid, practical, and eminently useful. Fine-tuned to address the changes in today’s business environment, this vital resource outlines the basics for managing a consulting practice and shows how to:
Develop...
by John C. Scott, Douglas H. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Praise for Handbook of Workplace Assessment
"Wow—what a powerhouse group of authors and topics! This will be my go-to s ource for in-depth information on a broad range of assessment issues."—Wayne F. Cascio, editor, Journal of World Business, and Robert H. Reynolds Chair in Global...
by Kenneth H. Silber, Wellesley R. Foshay
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
With the contributions from leading national and international scholars and practitioners, this volume provides a "state-of-the-art" look at ID, addressing the major changes that have occurred in nearly every aspect of ID in the past decade and provides both theory and "how-to"...
by Catherine M. Sleezer, Kavita Gupta, Darlene F. Russ-Eft
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third Edition
For fifteen years, A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment has been the go-to text for those who are seeking useful, systematic approaches to needs assessment. Needs assessment is the first step in training, performance improvement, and community...
Informal Learning
Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new, radically different, constantly...
How to Write Terrific Training Materials
Methods, Tools, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Now you can access Jean Barbazette's systematic process for creating winning training materials that will help raise your skills to the next level. The book is filled with easy-to-use tools and templates that answer all the questions trainers, course designers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) have...
Beyond Change Management
How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
"With this extensively upgraded second edition, Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson solidify their status as the leading authorities on change leadership and organizational transformation. This is without question the most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious about making...