Innovation Equation: Building Creativity and Risk-Taking in Your Organization
Author: Jacqueline Byrd
A Step-by-Step Guide for Building Innovative Capacity in Organizations
"Practical in so many ways, this book should top your reading chart if you are at all interested in the business of being more innovative— or coaching others. I use the term — business because innovation is no longer a soft skill, but one that drives organizational success."
— Dr. Mitchell Kusy, coauthor of Fast Forward Leadership
This definitive guide for building innovative capacity in organizations teaches you how to create an environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and risk taking. Based on the work of Richard E. Byrd, a pioneer in the field of organization development, this book includes an assessment tool for determining what drives creativity and risk taking and offers a four-step process for building innovative capacity in individuals.
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The Training Manager's Quick-Tip Sourcebook: Surefire Tools, Tactics, and Strategies to Solve Common Training Challenges
Author: Institute of Management and Administration IOMA
The Training Manager's Quick-Tip Sourcebook is a comprehensive guide that distills the best thinking and planning from experts in the field of training and development. This handy resource offers you proven solutions to a variety of training challenges, including quick steps for taking the pulse of your training programs, analyzing training costs, and identifying return on investment pitfalls. In addition, the book contains easy-to-use tools and strategies that tell you how to
- Build a solid training business plan
- Sell your training plan to management
- Conduct a quick and accurate needs assessment
- Compute training costs and ROI
- Understand and use e-learning in the most appropriate way
- Translate training into performance improvement
- Expand your training department's reach in thoughtful and innovative ways
Table of Contents:
List of Tables, Exhibits, and Figures.Introduction.
Chapter 1. Planning.
Developing Your Vision Statement.
Building Credibility.
A Five-Step Business Plan.
Whats Your Budget for That?
How to Build a Business Case for e-Learning.
How to Develop a Training RFP.
Chapter 2. Diagnosis.
What Methods, When.
A Quick, Consultative Approach to Needs Assessment.
What If the Problem Isnt You?
Taking the "Pulse" of Your Training Programs.
How to Use Research to Avoid "Snake Oil" Training.
Chapter 3. Selling Your Training.
Seven-Step Process for Selling Your Training Programs.
Getting Management Off the Bench.
Three Steps to Take Training from the Periphery to Business Partner.
Chapter 4. The True Costs of Training.
Glen Heads Thirteen Steps to Analyzing Student Training Costs.
The Five Most Effective Training Cost-Control Strategies.
Chapter 5. Training Return on Investment.
True ROI: Going Beyond Smile Sheets.
A Five-Step ROI Process.
Three ROI Pitfalls.
Comparing the ROI of Classroom Versus Online Training.
Measuring the "Soft" Results of Training.
Measuring the ROI of Management Training.
Chapter 6. E-Learning.
Three Criteria That Will Tell You When e-Learning Will Work.
Five Things to Consider Before You Consider e-Learning.
How to Get Support from Your IT Department.
How to Assess the Cost of e-Learning.
Use the Distance Learners Bill of Rights to Make Learners "Stick".
Tips to Ensure e-Learning Transfer.
Whats an LMS, and Do You Need One?
Case Studies of Successful e-Learning Initiatives.
Chapter 7. Performance Improvement.
The FivePrinciples of Successful Human Performance Technology.
Gloria Gerys "TurboTax" Model for Performance Improvement.
Best Practices in Performance Improvement.
Performance Support in Practice.
Chapter 8. Expanding Your Reach.
Training and Knowledge Management.
Should You Join a Training Consortium?
Coaching and Mentoring.
What If You Train People Before You Hire Them?
How to Do Your Training on Someone Elses Dollar.
Chapter 9. Training That Means Business.
New-Hire OrientationYour First Shot at Training.
Training as a Recruitment Tool.
Trainings Role in Employee Development.
Trainings Role in Preventing Employment Litigation.
Diversity Training as a Competitive Strategy.
How to Evaluate Online Safety Training.
Measuring the Effectiveness of Violence Prevention Training.
How to Avoid Discrimination in Training.
Chapter 10. Five Strategies for Running a Small Training Department (Carol P. McCoy).
Establish Credibility and Build Support for Training.
Determine Priority Training Needs and Focus Training on High-Impact Areas.
Determine the Best Resource Strategy and Manage Resources Wisely.
Develop the Right Skills to Manage a Small Training Department.
Avoid Common Pitfalls.
Summary.
Glossary.
Index.
About the Authors.
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