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ASTD Press serves the training and development field by providing relevant and timely information related to workplace learning and performance. Key content areas covered in the publishing program include training basics, needs assessment, evaluation and return-on-investment (ROI), instructional systems development (ISD), performance, e-learning, and career development, as well as leadership, management development, and a range of other business skills topics.

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2009 Top 10 Best-Selling ASTD Press titles: Measuring for Success  Leadership Training    Manager Skills Training  Communication Skills Training  ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals  Time Management Training  Negotiation Skills Training  Customer Service Training Leading Change Training  Coaching Training

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Workplace learning professionals are often frustrated when senior executives and other top organizational leaders do not “get” the value of learning and training initiatives. Often, these same professionals are left wondering what “measuring stick” is most meaningful to their company’s purse string holders. Based on interviews, surveys, research, and briefings with senior management and C-Level executives, Measuring For Success reveals what specific learning measurements are important to top level executives and what measures they often find disappointing. Learning and development professionals, including chief learning officers, training directors and other top learning professionals, will gain insight to help them build the best case for world-class training and development practice. Readers get straight answers from the top to help them develop strategies and measure what really matters to those at the top.

Available as an eBook here!

Author Spotlight

Jeffrey and Linda Russell, co-authors of ASTD's recently released Ultimate Performance Management, are the founders and co-directors of Russell Consulting, Inc., headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. For more than 20 years, Jeff and Linda have provided consulting and training services in areas such as leadership, strategic thinking and planning, change implementation, employee quality of worklife surveys, organization development, performance coaching, and performance management. Jeff has a bachelor of arts degree in humanism and cultural change and master of arts in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin. He also serves as an ad hoc faculty member for the University of Wisconsin, teaching for the Small Business Development Center, the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program, and other certification program. He is also a frequent presenter at local, state, regional, and international conferences. Linda has a bachelor of arts degree in social work and completed graduate work in rehabilitation counseling. She specializes in designing and implementing quality of worklife surveys and in facilitating team and organization development interventions.  Jeffrey and Linda have also written other ASTD Press publications: Strategic Planning Training, Leading Change Training, Change Basics, and INFOLINE Strategic Planning 101.

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ASTD Press News

New! ASTD 2009 University Catalog
Check out our 2009 products geared towards higher education institutes.

ASTD Press Launches Monthly Newsletter
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ASTD Authors on the Radio
Hear radio interviews with recently published ASTD Press authors Ed Betof (Leaders as Teachers), and Brian Lambert (World-Class Selling: New Sales Competencies).

ASTD Press Introduces New Digital Book Club
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ASTD Virtual Catalog
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Elaine Biech blogs for ASTD
See what Elaine has to say about training—and living—in her new blog written exclusively for ASTD.

ASTD Press Launches New Product Line
ContentExpress, ASTD's newest electronic product line, allows you to download entire books instantly! Live links take you directly to download pages. Buy ASTD books before they are available in stores!
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ASTD Content Goes Digital
The ASTD 2008 Compendium is here! The Compendium contains the complete collection of ASTD publications published in 2008, made up of more than 5,000 pages from books, T+D, research reports, and more.
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ASTD Press Books Now on Kindle!
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Employees at all levels can derive value from personalized, skilled help delivered in a structured, safe, one-on-one situation. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching is for companies that want to initiate a formal coaching process with their employees and infuse their day-to-day interactions in the workplace with a powerful new skill—development through coaching. (Sophie Oberstein, May 2009)

Career Development Basics empowers training and development leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to bring a career development focus to their organizations. This book jump-starts the learning curve by providing a succinct, ready-to-apply approach to this challenge. (Michael Kroth and McKay Christensen, May 2009)

Use World Class Selling as your foundational resource for driving sales and getting results. Based on data-driven criteria from thousands of sales managers, sales trainers, and sales people, this publication identifies the necessary criteria for building a world-class sales team.
(Brian Lambert, Tim Ohai, Eric Kerkhoff; May 2009)

Following the proven ADDIE methodology, ASTD’s Ultimate Train the Trainer provides a comprehensive program including options for full-day or multi-day session agendas, as well as learning activities, customizable PowerPoint® slides, and participant handouts. This is a “must have” for every training manager’s bookshelf.(Elaine Biech, August 2009)

New Titles Coming Soon from ASTD Press!

 Founded in the competencies of world-class selling, Sales Training Basics approaches training salespeople with strategy-effective, results-driven training that closes sales. Siegfried, with Nationwide Insurance, offers readers a useable, practical methodology for keeping salespeople engaged and learning, and ensures that they are using their classroom time wisely.
(Angela Siegfried, September 2009)

Having a copy of Ultimate Basic Business Skills: Training an Effective Workforce on your bookshelf is like having an on call business training department. This book offers ready-to-present programs on the most critical front line business skills every member of your organization needs.   Users can easily blend, mix and match formats and contents to create just the program your organization needs.(Christee Gabour Atwood, October 2009)