Show the value of virtual learning to demonstrate business impact.In Designing Virtual Learning for Application and Impact, virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett teams with evaluation experts Jack and Patti Phillips and learning transfer authority Emma Weber to create a guidebook for TD practitioners to ensure that their online programs achieve measurable results beyond the virtual classroom.This practical book outlines a design process focused on ...

UBIX is a fascinating, complex thriller set in the near future. It examines the space between technology, humanity and the search for knowledge. The narrative centers around Detective Jess Blair who takes on a case when her former lover Tim Ames mysteriously falls into a coma after encountering an entity called UBIX. Ames, a retired professor, lives in a smart house located in the forests of Humboldt County, California. Blair soon discovers a connection between Ames and others who have als...

Human Resources used to be about recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. Do these things well and your well-oiled machine will operate as planned. But in today’s turbulent and increasingly broadening economy, HR must go beyond its traditional focus if a company is to also expand and become as far-reaching as the times are trying to take it. While the core plan of recruit, prepare, motivate, and retain is still essential, High-...

The once star profiler for the FBI, Doug ONeal, who has been able to capture the greatest of serial killers, rapists, and criminals, comes back to San Francisco to find the worst of them. Because of this killer's background, the FBI has never even known he existed. Doug has only suspected that he exists.The FBI puts together a task force with the San Francisco police, Anne Borges, and Jeff Shinn to hunt down this suspect to prevent any more deaths. The police are always looking for...

Underpinned by decades of research and application, Making Change Work shows that the lynchpin that connects change initiatives and their ultimate success is behavioural change. The book brings together the ROI Institute's established methodology for aligning projects and programmes to business needs and for evaluating impact and ROI with the Turning Learning Into Action methodology developed by Emma Weber to support learning transfer. It offers a step-by-step pro...

Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of human resources programs is critical for success in today's business world and is an absolute requirement for HR professionals who are part of the senior executive team.This revised and updated second edition of Proving the Value of HR illustrates the use of ROI methodology as a communication tool that strengthens the relationship with senior management as well as a process-improvement tool that ...

Matter is mostly empty space . . . or is it?Quan Jintao is putting the finishing touches on his doctoral thesis when a late-night call informs him that his father, CEO of the most technologically advanced corporation in China, has mysteriously disappeared. Quan returns home hoping to find out what happened and inadvertently uncovers an astonishing secret that promises to forever change our understanding of reality.Intelligence agents from both China and the U.S. will stop at ...

Prove the financial value of your programs—so funders can’t say no“Not measuring the impact of leadership development is like dieting without weighing-in. This outstanding book offers a very logical and practical approach to measuring the impact of leadership development.”—Dave Ulrich, Professor, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and partner, The RBL Group“This book explains many of the reasons why current lea...

Why not just make the cake? That's a question countless people across the country started asking in 2012, when Jack Phillips told two men who walked into his Masterpiece Cakeshop that he couldn't create a custom cake for their same-sex wedding. And the question only grew more urgent as Phillips had to defend himself first before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and then numerous courts—losing at every step of the way until the US Supreme Court ruled in his favor in June 2018.Wh...

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential, but to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far-reaching.High-Impact Human Capital Strategy examines 12 critical forces that must be considered: globalization, changes in workforce demographics, skill shortages and mismatches in labor mar...

"A potent tool and practical resource for everyone who practices in the talent development and organizational improvement field." —Chip R. Bell, author of Inside Your Customer's ImaginationNEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDIn America, organizations spend $175 billion in training initiatives and more than $500 billion in human resource solutions every year yet often have little to show for it. One reason is that people "jump to solutions" before they i...

Since the publication of 'Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs,' many individuals have attempted to implement the ROI methodology in their organizations. Having a credible process does not guarantee that an organization will implement the process effectively throughout the various functions and divisions. 'The ROI Fieldbook' will help organizations implement ROI successfully, by providing concrete techniques, tools, strategies, and reproducible items. Jack ...