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HRD SURVIVAL SKILLS
HRD Survival Skills
Essential strategies to promote training and development within your organization
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Jessica Levant, Jessica Levant has more than 20 years' experience as a training and development practitioner in the U.S. and UK and is the author of several books. Her management development business is based in London and San Francisco. In addition to her consulting practice, she teaches various professional courses at UK business schools. She is an active member of the UK-based Association of Management Education and Development and a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development. She has served as chapter president of the American Society for Training and Development (Westchester, NY).

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Description
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'.

Audience
HR professionals/managers

Contents
Shifting the focus; What marketing training means; How to analyze your market; Building relationships: customers are people too; Getting the packaging right; Your image: divining, defining, and refining; Maintaining your focus: the long term; The importance of administration; Seamless customer service; Expanding your horizons; Appendices - A customer-focus checklist; The training image survey; Trainer styles; Developing your network.

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 146 pages, publication date: JUN-1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-88415-270-5
ISBN-10: 0-88415-270-7
Imprint: GULF PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING

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