To view or add items to your Wish List, please log in.

Not yet an ASTD registered user? Click here to register.
Already registered? Click here to log in.

Search ASTD Books

Rapid Retooling: Developing World-Class Organizations in a Rapidly Changing World

Rapid Retooling explains that organizational change is a cyclical process, and shows readers how to constantly and rapidly adapt—or “retool”—themselves, their employees, and their organization.

Effective Management: 20 Keys to a Winning Culture

A winning culture is desirable and possible. Use these keys to build yours now!

More Turbulent Change: Don't just survive-learn to thrive in times of change!

You can succeed during times of change. Don't just survive—learn how to thrive in turbulent times!

The Self-Aware Leader: A Proven Model for Reinventing Yourself

The Self-Aware Leader is a unique approach on how to become a more effective leader by increasing self-awareness in four pillars of leadership. By integrating the concepts of reinvention, servant leadership, and business transformation into a single framework that has been validated in research, The Self-Aware Leader emphasizes taking a calculated approach to change rather than merely reacting to change.

The ASTD Management Development Handbook

The ASTD Management Development Handbook is a powerful and useful collection of writing covering many aspects of management in today’s business climate.

90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance

Are you responsible for bringing recently-hired employees on board and up to speed within your organization? If you are a manager, trainer, corporate coach, or human resources executive in charge of developing the new hires in your company, 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance provides you with the knowledge and tools required to grow these recruits into engaged, confident team members during the course of the standard three-month probationary period. With a strong focus on working with younger professionals, 90 Days 90 Ways offers specific, actionable strategies and corresponding techniques for ensuring that the new hires under your guidance are integrated quickly, completely, and successfully into your business.

Measuring the Success of Coaching: A Step-by-Step Guide for Measuring Impact and Calculating ROI

Measuring the Success of Coaching provides an approach for objectively measuring success in coaching, allowing you to develop effective and efficient coaching programs and to demonstrate the return on investment of these programs.

Employee Development on a Shoestring

Developing motivated, competent employees is critical to the success of every organization. Employee Development on a Shoestring provides time-bound and budget-strapped managers with the implementation tools and techniques to develop their team members cost-effectively using organic opportunities found all around their workplace. With real-life examples, case studies, and hands-on worksheets and exercises, Employee Development on a Shoestring is a tremendous asset for everyone interested in developing highly competent, engaged, and skilled workers in a variety of creative and immediately available ways outside the training classroom and ‘outside the box’.

10 Steps to Successful Business Alignment

10 Steps to Successful Business Alignment offers a fresh, informative perspective on the challenge of achieving business alignment. As the global recession has magnified the need for demonstrable results from projects and programs in every organization, the need for understanding and delivering business alignment has never been more important. Moving far beyond merely defining the concept, this book demonstrates how to create alignment, provides insight on how to ensure alignment is properly positioned at the outset of projects, and shows how to successfully validate and maintain effective alignment over the entire lifespan of those projects. Written by a pair of globally recognized experts on business-related measurement and evaluation, 10 Steps to Successful Business Alignment provides managers, executives, and organizational leaders in every industry the tools required to achieve and sustain sound, sustainable business alignment.

The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

Nineteen experts examine research-based theories and current practices in highly successful enterprises, and explain how you can adopt effective, state-of-the-art methods to integrate your talent management functions.