HRD Survival Skills: Essential Strategies to Promote Training and Development Within Your Organization (Improving Human Performance Series) - Hardcover

"This informative and challenging book demonstrates how HRD can become a more potent contributor to business success. . . . 'HRD Survival Skills' details the essential skills for the next generation of developers. The evolution of the role continues - don't become a HRD dinosaur...read it!"
Vince Whittle, Head of HRD and Training, VISA International.

'...a highly practical and readable guide for anyone in HRD who must position or market themselves, but hates to do it. This book makes the process accessible while helping the reader see the value in marketing. If everyone in HRD followed the three caveats in Chapter 7 of this book, HRD would improve both its image and its capacity.'
Karen E. Watkins, Professor of Adult Education and Director, Graduate Programs in Human Resource Organizational Development, University of Georgia.

At your fingertips is this valuable source of ideas, concepts, and step-by-step activities. Now you can effectively promote the HR training function within your organization.

This unique guide shows you how to:
* assess and tune up your department's image
* promote HRD's added value to the business
* appeal to diverse company groups
* keep awareness high by staying visible
* enhance relationships inside your organization
* make sure administration doesn't tarnish your image
* capitalize on work with external consultants
* determine if the department should sell to a wider market

In addition, you will find:
* insightful case studies
* easy-to-organize activities
* a training image assessment survey
* an inventory of training styles
* a customer-focus checklist

Overflowing with ideas, 'HRD Survival Skills' supplies your training and development teams with actual examples taken from diverse industries, sectors, and countries. Here's your blueprint to ensure that the services you provide are the right services for your in-house 'customers'.