The Performance Consultants Fieldbook: Tools and Techniques for Improving Organizations and People

Since it was first published in 1998, The Performance Consultant′s Fieldbook has become required reading for all serious workplace learning and performance consultants. This completely revised and updated second edition offers you more proven and practical advice; fresh, real–world examples and stories; and dozens more tools and templates.
The Performance Consultant′s Fieldbook will help trainers, training managers, and internal and external consultants working in partnership with clients to identify barriers to performance, explore a suite of solutions, and work collaboratively to get new procedures, technology, behaviors, and ideas adopted. Step–by–step, the book details the techniques you need to conduct performance interventions and offers a customizable collection of worksheets, flowcharts, planning guides, and job aids. It provides practical guidance and proven tools to help analyze an organizational environment, diagnose performance problems, identify barriers to performance, select appropriate interventions, and measure intervention success.
This second edition of the classic resource includes new and updated information such asA section on understanding costs and cost driversNew material on sustaining changeMaterial addressing social systems and norms in working environmentsMore examples, stories, and tools on levels of performance interventionsA focus on measuring results, especially based on a three–point model of evaluationAn emphasis on measuring people performance, especially how to evaluate the effectiveness of the performance consulting effortFresh examples on needs assessment, making the transition, and credibility and influenceAn updated glossaryA CD with tools that can be adapted or customized for personal use
Employees don′t need to learn more; they need to perform better. And as a performance consultant armed with Hale′s Fieldbook , you will have the tools you need to effect measurable enhancements in performance. Make the transition to a performance consultant today!
"A good thing just got better . . . Judith Hale has succeeded in making the Fieldbook more valuable to the practitioners and customers of performance improvement."
—Dean R. Larson, faculty coordinator, Purdue Homeland Security Institute

Spis treści:
Figures.
CD–ROM Contents.
Preface.
Introduction.
Part One: Making the Transition.
1. Performance Consulting.
2. The Transition.
3. Costs.
4. Credibility and Influence.
5. Sustaining Change.
Part Two: Performance Consulting.
6. Environment and Norms.
7. Needs Assessment and Cause Analysis.
8. Interventions.
9. Measuring Results.
10. Measuring People Performance.
Index.
About the Author.
How to Use the CD–ROM.

Nota biograficzna:
Judith Hale, Ph.D., has been a consultant to management in the public and private sectors for over twenty–five years. She specializes in needs assessments, certification programs, evaluation protocols, training outsourcing, and the implementation of major interventions. She is a past president of ISPI and is on the faculty of ISPI′s HPT Institute and Boise State′s School of Engineering.

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Since it was first published in 1998, The Performance Consultant′s Fieldbook has become required reading for all serious workplace learning and performance consultants. This completely revised and updated second edition offers you more proven and practical advice; fresh, real–world examples and stories; and dozens more tools and templates.
The Performance Consultant′s Fieldbook will help trainers, training managers, and internal and external consultants working in partnership with clients to identify barriers to performance, explore a suite of solutions, and work collaboratively to get new procedures, technology, behaviors, and ideas adopted. Step–by–step, the book details the techniques you need to conduct performance interventions and offers a customizable collection of worksheets, flowcharts, planning guides, and job aids. It provides practical guidance and proven tools to help analyze an organizational environment, diagnose performance problems, identify barriers to performance, select appropriate interventions, and measure intervention success.
This second edition of the classic resource includes new and updated information such asA section on understanding costs and cost driversNew material on sustaining changeMaterial addressing social systems and norms in working environmentsMore examples, stories, and tools on levels of performance interventionsA focus on measuring results, especially based on a three–point model of evaluationAn emphasis on measuring people performance, especially how to evaluate the effectiveness of the performance consulting effortFresh examples on needs assessment, making the transition, and credibility and influenceAn updated glossaryA CD with tools that can be adapted or customized for personal use
Employees don′t need to learn more; they need to perform better. And as a performance consultant armed with Hale′s Fieldbook, you will have the tools you need to effect measurable enhancements in performance. Make the transition to a performance consultant today!
"A good thing just got better . . . Judith Hale has succeeded in making the Fieldbook more valuable to the practitioners and customers of performance improvement."
—Dean R. Larson, faculty coordinator, Purdue Homeland Security Institute