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Excellent, Comprehensive Resource for Trainers !!!.......2003-05-05
Dolasinski has written a clear and well organized introduction to training that can and should be read by new trainers, experienced trainers, trainer wannabes, and persons entering training programs. It covers why to offer training, how to design and deliver it, how to sell and evaluate training, and how to use new technology effectively.
Her metaphor of the stage and the play is especially useful and well developed, and the advice about writing a script, learning the script and following the script may help persons new to training. The tone of the book is encouraging to new professioanls and helpful to experienced ones. It maintains a comprehensive perspective without being pedantic and overly professional.
It is an easy book to read. The trainer terms - although very simple - may be useful for persons who have never considered what is involved in this professional field; they seemed unnecessary since the words chosen are not that esoteric.
Dolasinki is to be commended for creating a professionally oriented book full of good solid information and eminently readable and free from jargon. The layout, sidebars (especially the trainer pitfalls), examples, and charts support the text and make it easy reading and fun to search for specific information.
A great book which should be in the library of every training departement, human resources department and college library.
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IMPLEMENTING YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN How to Turn 'Intent' Into Effective Action for Sustainable Change Planning is easy, but implementing a plan is tough --often involving the coordination and direction of numerous people, resources, programs, and actions over a sustained period of time and across many organizational boundaries. Implementing Your Strategic Plan is packed with action-oriented principles, tools, and techniques designed to help CEOs, managers, consultants, or anyone who needs to make a strategic plan a reality-not just a pipe dream. It shows how to: ** turn strategic priority issues into assigned, measurable actions ** foster creative leadership ** overcome resistance to change ** provide an environment in which people can excel ** fix broken core processes, and much more C. DAVIS FOGG (Nashville, TN) is president of his own consulting firm and an active seminar leader. He is the author of Team-Based Strategic Planning (Amacom).
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The More Times Change..........2003-05-12
...the more they stay the same. Despite the fact that this book was written and published more than five years ago, it's still the best book written on strategy execution and implementation. Alright,... I'll admit it: the book's title and cover design need a little work (author take note!!). However, if you're willing to look past these superficial flaws, you'll discover the definative book on strategy implementation -- even better than Larry Bossidy's fine "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done." In addition to this book and Bossidy's "Execution," I'd also recommend that you consider Kotter's "Leading Change" and Smallwood, Ulrich, and Zenger's "Results-Based Leadership" (both five-star books!!). Bottom line? "Implementing Your Strategic Plan" is a must addition to your management library. Overall grade: B+/A.
Making strategic intent into a reality........1999-02-23
This book could have been titled "making change happen." The core of this book consists of a chapter by chapter discussion of the 18 keys to implementing the strategic plan. The 18 keys are grouped into five categories: setting accountability; enabling and aligning action; fixing the organization; providing an environment in which people can excel; and judging and rewarding. This is a superb, penetrating and detailed book which begins with a fascinating summary of findings from the author's survey of CEOs and key executives who were successful in implementing change. One insight stands out from these findings-teams don't develop paradigm shift strategies; CEOs do. Indeed Fogg states that the single most important factor in the change equation is leadership. With that truth set forth up front, we were confident that this book would be a rewarding experience; it was...and we highly recommend it!
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Organization development practitioners have, for over half a century, engaged with organizations to help them grow and thrive. The artful application of Organization Development (OD) has helped business leaders articulate vision, rethink business processes, create more fluid organization structures and better utilize people's talents. While business leaders and OD practitioners intuitively believe that OD provides valuable results, rigorous measurement of the value delivered has long eluded many OD practitioners.
'Bottom-Line Organization Development' provides powerful tools to capture and measure the financial return on investment (ROI) of OD projects to the business. Given the increasing competition for budget and resources within organizations and the requirements of demonstrating tangible results, the need for such OD measurement tools is very high.
But in addition to proving the value of OD projects, integrating evaluation into the change management process itself can actually increase the value of the change initiative because it opens up new ways of capturing and increasing the value of change initiatives. In other words, there is an ROI to ROI. Merrill Anderson calls this new way of approaching OD "strategic change valuation."
The book explains the five steps in the OD value process - diagnosis, design, deployment, evaluation and reflection. In addition, three case studies take readers through the process of applying bottom-line OD to three types of popular strategic change initiatives: executive coaching, organization capability, and knowledge management. Readers will gain a holistic perspective of how to make the seemingly intangible benefits of these initiatives tangible.
* Guides you through a proven, results-based approach to calculating the Return on Investment for large-scale, complex change management initiatives
* Provides the tools to identify the key measures and specific advice on how to measure them effectively
* Summarizes in simple language everything HR professionals need to do to justify and document the ROI of organization development initiatives for senior management
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Almost There.......2006-04-12
I just finished reading this one and it is helpful. The book is a good guide to a suggested consultative process based on this high-level process:
"1) Formally link top business goals to change initiative objectives.
2) Develop evaluation objectives that guide change management activities.
3) Maximize the success of initiative deployment.
4) Isolate the effects of the initiative to produce business results.
5) Convert the business results into monetary value.
6) Calculate the return on investment.
7) Leverage evaluation to sustain strategic change."
The overall framework of this process is probably familiar to many folks but the book does include many well-thought-out examples for converting business results to monetary value with some degree of formality.
Helpful tips regarding up-front surveys and assessments for high-value projects are valuable and include specific examples.
The book espouses some good ideas for documenting the overall process but does not provide detailed examples for those cases.
The authors do present a thoughtful and complete process with an emphasis on techniques for documenting how to ensure that the value of change initiatives; be they training, reorganization, coaching, or introduction of new technologies and tools, are properly valued by the larger organization so you can always answer the question "what have you done for me lately."
How OD and HR deliver dollar value.......2003-10-28
This book has several case studies that show from real-world experience how to show dollar value from so-called "soft initiatives." There are several tools and ideas for demonstrating beyond a reasonable doubt how the change initiative delivered monetary value. Dave Ulrich endorsed the book.
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In From Strategy to Change-the last in a series-Daniel James Rowley comes full circle in defining his unique vision of the strategic planning process. Written with Herbert Sherman, From Strategy to Change shows how to take the next step after a strategic plan has been formulated. The authors clearly show how to implement a strategic plan that will meet the myriad challenges of today's complex higher education environment and spell success for the academy. "It is amazing that while sports teams of colleges and universities meticulously plan their contests against their opponents, their institutions' administrators don't spend nearly enough time or effort in creating and implementing a strategy. Institutions of higher education seem to be missing the requisite tools to develop and activate their 'play book.' With this new age of globally available real-time information, it becomes increasingly more essential to have a map to help go over and around obstacles, avoid the ever-present pitfalls, and effectively aid in selecting the best route. Rowley and Sherman provide such tools in this exciting and comprehensive new book. I wish that when I was a department chair, president of a faculty senate, and dean that this superb work was available. My function in planning would have been so much easier and more rewarding." —Barry R. Armandi, Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY - Old Westbury
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Succeeding With Change: Implementing Action-Driven Strategies
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Implementing Strategic Change assesses the pros and cons of today’s most well-known corporate performance models, from Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma to EVA, and presents a fully integrated approach for creating and enhancing customer and shareholder value. This pragmatic, application-oriented book explores today’s movement toward assessing performance on both financial and nonfinancial dimensions and shows managers how to distinguish between assessment and versus implementation- based approaches as they focus on adopting process improvements.
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Great book on strategic change.......2007-05-13
Excellent book which focusses on how to implement strategic changes.A practical approach is described which is easy to understand & implement.
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This digital document is an article from Entrepreneur, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 695 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Smooth moves: implementing Sarbox-style strategic governance changes can help small businesses woo--and win--more big customers.(DOLLAR SIGNS)
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Created for those who work and play on the shores and in the shallow subtidal of the Pacific, this easy-to-use field guide is suitable for amateurs and professionals alike. Featuring a "quick key" and filled with interesting details, this comprehensive book will enable you to readily identify 128 species of nmarine algae commonly found along the coast from Alaska to Baja California. Each species is accompanied by at least one color photograph, and text that covers identifying characteristics, range, and habit. Contains 138 color photographs, 14 line drawings that illustrate algal structures and life cycles, 3 easy-to-use keys to help sort and identify specimens and 9 recipes for cooking with seaweed.
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A great book.......2005-09-06
The color photographs are very useful. This book is a good choice for the amateur. I know Abbott and Hollenberg is a standard, but many of us don't need such a comprehensive volume.
A full-color field guide.......2003-08-11
Jennifer Mondragon and Jeff Mondragon are a pair of marine biologists who have personally traversed the Pacific coast from southern California to Alaska. In Seaweeds Of The Pacific Coast: Common Marine Algae From Alaska To Baja California, Jennifer and Jeff effectively collaborate to provide the reader with a full-color field guide featuring eye-catching photographs combined with basic information about identifying characteristics, range, and habitat concerning 128 species of marine algae commonly found in the Pacific coast region. Seaweeds Of The Pacific Coast is very highly recommended as being an superbly organized and thoroughly "user friendly" quick reference which is suitable for marine biology professionals and non-specialist general readers alike.
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