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Good managers know they need to deliver results to be successful. Great ones? They understand managing encompasses something more: making connections, embodying the right skills, and developing their direct reports. They also realise it takes practice. With Focus on Them, you'll get the tools and know-how to excel as a manager.

When meetings draw employees away from day-to-day tasks and then fail to reach their intended outcome, it has huge costs to the organisation. But with preparation, you can turn these wasted opportunities into sessions that fully engage. This book includes 13 facilitation designs you can apply to solve problems, build trust, and deal with conflict.

Industry expert and bestselling author Elaine Biech lays out an eight-step framework to position your organization for the future. This is the companion volume to ATD's Foundations of Talent Development: Launching, Leveraging, and Leading Your Organization's TD Effort, and it offers practical questions, organizational assessments, and tips for each step you must guide your organization through. Biech also presents the newest thinking from industry practitioners and luminaries in leadership and development.

With the encouraging style of a trainer-coach, Timothy Tobin shares his fitness principles and describes the steps to becoming leadership fit. This book is grounded in learning and development and leadership research and illustrated with true-to-life vignettes, sample leadership fitness plans, templates, and tip sheets.

Management authorities David Grebow and Stephen J. Gill share what happens when managers empower and inspire people to seek out learning at a moment's notice. They capture this turning point as managers transition from a ""command and control"" position to become advocates of communication and collaboration.

In Leadership Lessons for Any Occasion: Stories of Our Mothers, executive coaches and authors Ed and Nila Betof have collected stories from a wide range of leaders, teachers, coaches, and talent development professionals about how their mothers guided their paths to helping others lead resourceful, meaningful lives. Explore these stories as a way to reconnect with your own mother's legacy—or as a source of insight to share with your mentees and learners.

Learn Mike Parkinson's award-winning PowerPoint process as he guides you through three phases of presentation development—discover, design, and deliver. Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP—most valuable professional—an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with "very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services.” He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs.

The world may seem to be getting smaller and more familiar, but that doesn't mean the same instructional techniques or training styles work everywhere. Destination Facilitation presents the best techniques for adapting needs assessments, design processes, facilitation, and classroom management to whatever country or region you're visiting.

Change Your Training NarrativeAs a trainer, you try to facilitate connections for learners, knowing you must first make connections for yourself. One way to do that is to be a storyteller. But how do you tell stories? How do you find stories to tell? StoryTraining: Selecting and Shaping Stories That Connect explores how to find your stories and deliver them for learners, ultimately strengthening the storyteller you already are. The challenge with storytelling, according to author Hadiya Nuriddin, is in finding a story to tell. This book focuses on that elusive part of storytelling¿finding the stories lurking everywhere and telling them. Hadiya shows you how by pulling from other disciplines, especially literature and creative writing, to help you select, structure, shape, and tell stories that can facilitate connections between you, your learners, and the material. Yoüll learn about the characteristics of stories that are most useful for facilitating learning, and understand what each looks like in practice. StoryTraining also includes helpful checklists as well as the author¿s surefire tips, diagrams for story timelining, and favorite story models.Given the push to make training more relevant, storytelling ability will continue to be in high demand. If you yearn to find your own stories¿and to successfully engage with learners and others¿this is the facilitation book you have been waiting for.

Offers proven resources for delivering top-notch virtual training programs. Make expert trainer Cindy Huggett's professional array of virtual tools your own, and discover new perspectives from a range of training trailblazers. You'll find their real-world lessons learned and get full access to their secrets of the trade.

Tackles sustainability concerns head-on. Discover seven proven practices businesses use to ensure continuity in learning and development. Original case studies from the public and private sector put these practices into action, while self-assessments and job aids show you how to attain a sustainable mindset.

How people successfully land jobs has changed. You need help from a pro, someone who navigates career data, the labour market, and hot jobs with ease. You want a coach who will tell you what to pursue and what to avoid, and an expert who has mastered job-hunting and career change to offer wisdom gained from experience. What you need is a career coach. Better yet, several.

Lecturing on its own is ineffective. But what's the alternative? Use the easily replicable Cafeteria Learning model to combine the best of brain science and learning theory with the power of choice. Improve the retention and engagement of your learning programs. This book will show you how.

How do I position a talent development business for lasting success?" is a question Stephen L. Cohen fields regularly. In his practice, he hears it posed countless times in countless ways by independent consultants, corporate executives, and training suppliers alike. Cohen fills The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Talent Development Firm with answers.

Microlearning - training delivered in short bursts - can provide the just-in-time learning employees need. Microlearning to Boost the Employee Experience explains how to build a microlearning library to promote effective workplace training. Author Elise Greene Margol shares why microlearning is valuable and provide tips for creating suitable content for a microlibrary.

Veteran trainer and author Jonathan Halls uses his experience running the BBC's prestigious production training department to help even the smallest learning team dazzle. Whether you need to build a training program, blend your offerings, or flip your classroom, this book will help you make learning dynamic with rapid media techniques.

Shows you how to elevate the most important content from an endless sea of learning information and offers strategies to better connect with your audience. Using case studies and relevant examples, eight curation experts share tips and best practices for creating a curation strategy and collecting content that is relevant to your learning communities.

Explains how fear, laziness, and resignation can keep employees from reaching their potential, even when they want to improve. The authors discuss how provocative coaching - or ""playing the devil's advocate while being on the side of the angels"" - can help people get past the feelings that are blocking them from making a positive change.

Over the course of a decade, positive psychology authority Dr. Beth Cabrera has surveyed and interviewed more than a thousand women to gather insight into how to effectively balance career and family responsibilities. Beyond Happy gathers essential findings and offers women proven strategies for living more authentic, meaningful lives.

Presents seven simple paths to an effective relationship between managers and staff. Each path offers management wisdom that focuses on action, not position, and inspires others to do their best work. Expressly written for middle managers, this step-by-step guide covers principles evaluated and fine-tuned over the course of several decades.

Measurement and evaluation are key to establishing success and demonstrating the value-add of your programmes, but often L&D professionals launch into this journey with no clear destination in mind. This book leads you to the ultimate destination of real world evaluation, the intersection of learning and evaluation where the two are so intertwined that the activity of evaluation is seamless.

Whether you are developing a first-rate leadership development program from scratch or adding to an existing workshop, let leadership expert and master trainer Lou Russell be your guide. The second book in the ATD Workshop Series, Leadership Training presents a step-by-step blueprint to developing and delivering dynamic, powerful leadership training.

Organize your way to better training projects! Many of our training projects are derivatives of something we've done in the past. So, why would you reinvent the wheel each time you deliver a new training project? There is knowledge to be leveraged! Developing consistent forms can be difficult, but creating and maintaining a repository of training forms is the key to success.

In a tumultuous global business environment, change is a constant. Organizations are effected by many factors from the local economy to global competition. To be successful they must do more than react to changes, they need to be proactive. Organization Development Fundamentals provides a starting point for those interested in learning more about taking this proactive approach.

If you're delving into e-learning and are coming up with more questions than answers, this guide is the high-level overview you've been looking for. In this book, e-learning development experts and educators Diane Elkins and Desiree Pinder deliver a comprehensive examination of the e-learning process from the ground up.

The third book in the ATD Workshop Series, Coaching Trainingtakes a service-oriented approach to workplace coaching. It teaches the essential skills trainers must master to give learners what they need when they need it. Each half-day, full-day, and two-day programme comes with its own agenda and includes online presentation slides, handouts, assessments, and tools.