Aligning Training for Results: A Process and Tools that Link Training to Business - Hardcover

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Ron Drew Stone, an international consultant and presenter, is one of the world's most recognized and accomplished authorities on improving training and performance interventions and measuring results. He is president of the Center for Performance and ROI. He is also a partner with the ROI Institute, where he has helped to refine the ROI methodology. He works with businesses and governments around the world, providing performance consulting and workshops in linking training to business measures, designing training for results and ROI, conducting situational needs assessments, and evaluating results. Ron also certifies practitioners in aligning training to achieve business results.

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Praise for Aligning Training for Results

"If you follow the PAL process, you will get the desired training result! The process includes clearly defined, well-structured tools that will definitely benefit both training professionals and line managers to achieve training effectiveness."
Han Qing, director, Siemens Management Institute

"Ron's book is a much-needed contribution to the training profession and provides a refreshing view of how a results-centered training process should function. ?His process provides the guidance to initiate and sustain alignment with the business, and his tools and templates provide the how-to."
Stephen M. R. Covey, best-selling author of The Speed of Trust

"At last, a book I can use as a guide to ensure that our programs are designed for business needs and stay aligned throughout the training process to achieve business results. A great contribution to our profession and a great resource for training fellows."
Sunny Niu Peie, regional director, Field Force Effectiveness, Japan/Asia, Pfizer, Inc.

"Ron's work is a key resource for all of us in the learning space. Two concepts in particular are not to be missed: the Performance-Centered Framework is a great blueprint for building alignment with business challenges and the Active Management Reinforcement connects the performer with the manager and the work setting and the work, a perfect recipe for success."
Rebecca L. Ray, group head, Global Talent Management & Development, MasterCard Worldwide

"This is a brilliant book that is packed with sage advice and instructive examples. It moves the traditional trainer role into one of performance consultant. The author provides numerous tools and strategies that will allow all professionals to be guided in assisting their stakeholders to achieve transfer of skills into the workplace. A must-read for those who want to align their learning initiatives to business outcomes."
Pam Poggi, vice president, Corporate Human Resources Development, Safeway Inc.

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What makes some training programs successful while others produce disappointing results? The answer, says Ron Stone, lies in the processes trainers employ to determine needs, design and develop programs, deliver the training, and partner to get business results. It is time to reexamine these processes, says the author, and bring them into the twenty-first century. InAligning Training for Results Stone provides a potent, comprehensive, and versatile resource to help guide trainers through assessing, designing, and delivering training solutions that achieve real and measurable results.

Many training programs have a limited chance to succeed, Stone explains, because trainers have not focused on the factors that really matter. This book lays out the five critical factors of alignment that drive the entire training process to desired results. The author addresses all aspects of the training process, beginning with needs assessment and ending with designing transfer strategies and shows how to align training with business needs and goals. The guidelines, techniques, and tools in the book integrate best practices with the best available empirical evidence in making decisions about how to design and deliver training for business results. By following the author's research-based methods, trainers will sharpen their consulting skills, learn how to eliminate time wasters, clarify performance execution and outcome requirements, and most important satisfy the needs of clients.

Full of evidence-based templates, strategies, assessments, and other tools, Aligning Training for Results communicates a foundation of concepts and principles, and a systematic process demonstrating how to create, sustain, and align training solutions to get business results.