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2010 Top 5 Best-Selling ASTD Press titles: Measuring for Success  10 Steps to Successful Business Writing   Telling Ain't Training  ISD From the Ground Up (2nd Edition)  Talent Management 2010 Top 5 Best-Selling ASTD Press EBOOK titles: ASTD's Ultimate Train the Trainer  Telling Ain't Training   10 Steps to Successful Teams Making Learning Stick  Measuring For Success

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 Most companies understand that managing talent is essential to long-term organizational strategy, especially in tough economic times. Yet, finding the right approach often leads to inertia. Talent Management is a book designed to help organizations move toward real, deployable solutions. Written by top workplace learning professionals from well known companies including Cisco, McDonalds, Avon, Liberty Mutual, Ciena, and the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, readers get an insider’s perspective on both the how and why of developing a comprehensive program. Edited by Larry Israelite, vice president and manager of HRD for Liberty Mutual and author of the popular ASTD Press title, Lies About Learning (2006), this book offers insight to successful practices and how these practices are linked to positive business outcomes. In addition, the book provides an international perspective by the former chief learning officer of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Finally, a separate chapter offers valuable advice on adopting and using an integrated talent management software system.

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Author Spotlight: Robert Vaughn

In the midst of his years of successful achievements as an author and trainer, Bob Vaughn has failed multiple times at the same task: retirement. After many years as a college professor and dean of business, he started a textbook publishing company in 2005. He sold that after almost three years and has spent the time since working on various projects that have captured his interest. His most recent challenge is helping create the business plan for the construction and operation of the last ever Frank Lloyd Wright house. (While there are many Wright designs that never made it to construction, this one in Willoughby Hills, Ohio, is the only one in the country where the property for which it was designed is still available after 50 years.) Bob and his wife, Susan, enjoy travel, and Bob has explored 47 states as well as Mexico, Canada, much of Europe and the Caribbean. All three of Bob’s books feature a practical, hands-on type of presentation, which reflect his 30+ years of experience doing in-house training for over 100 companies and professional organizations. Bob has been a 17-year board member and three-time president of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of ASTD. His new book for ASTD Press, available now in the Trainer’s Workshop series, is titled Decision-Making Training. Visit Bob’s website here.

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Whether you're a middle manager yourself, or a human resources or training professional who can help them, The High-Impact Middle Manager shows how to become a "high-impact" middle manager who makes substantial quantitative and qualitative contributions to the organization without that frenzied hamster-on-a-wheel work style. You'll find a powerful set of practices to help you reach your full potential, including: tools for demonstrating business results; instructions for managing time and projects; tips for optimizing work performance; and a practical implementation roadmap. (Haneberg, January 2010).

Providing great customer service has never been more critical for the success of any business. 10 Steps to Successful Customer Service is designed as a quick but effective check up to ensure that front line professionals as well as customer service managers focus on the key practices that keep and create satisfied customers. Beginning with a focus on individual motivation for service, Maxine Kamin covers all the bases critical for success from trust and relationship building to maintaining a big picture perspective to avoid burn out on the job (Kamin 2010).

Middle managers in the public sector have more direct impact on results than any other layer of an organization. If you rush from task to task and often lose sight of the big picture, you need to become a "high-impact" manager instead. Learn to think strategically and make more substantial contributions to your organization. High-Impact Middle Management is designed to address the unique needs of public sector managers. You can transform yourself into an effective professional who can connect all activities to both your company’s strategy and your own personal career goals  (Lambert, 2009)

Decision Making Training contains all the materials needed to train others to make effective and appropriate decisions. The book offers practical, ready-to-use content that enables trainers and facilitators to quickly create half-day, full-day, and multi-day workshops. This book focuses on helping individuals define the elements of effective decision making techniques and provides the skills needed for success. It provides an easily understandable structured process, and is designed to train people interactively as they develop and use the strategies presented to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their decisions (Vaughn, 2010)

New Titles Coming Soon from ASTD Press!

Thanks to a growing body of research evidence, we've learned a great deal in the last 20 years about which methods really work when training people; yet, many trainers still use time-honored methods and assume they work despite recent evidence to the contrary. Whether you're a classroom instructor, training manager, or designer of e-learning, your training will be more effective when you base your methods on evidence. With Evidence-Based Training Methods as your guide, you can thoroughly incorporate evidence and learning psychology into your program design, development, and delivery decisions. You'll save your organization time and money wasted on training fads that don't work, and invest resources more productively in proven training methods. (Clark, March 2010).

Social networking has the potential to change the game for many businesses by connecting their services or products directly to their customers, but it can be hard to know where to start and how to use these technologies. 10 Steps to Social Networking for Business describes some of the most frequently used social networking systems and their features and provides examples of how some organizations have used them to connect with their customers. The book provides ways to select the best systems for your own business, develop and launch a social networking initiative that connects to key business drivers, and build success over time. An appendix provides a more detailed roadmap for custom building a social networking system that is unique to your organization (Hartley, March 2010).