Mel Silberman - Böcker

This title provides ready-made, high-quality consulting tools that help you help your clients! Consultants need help too! Consulting is a demanding profession and today's busier-than-ever consultant needs intelligent tools and resources to speed up and improve the process of working with clients. Help is now here in "The Consultant's ToolKit", an indispensable collection of 50 sophisticated team and organizational assessment questionnaires, team problem-solving activities, and how-to guides for diagnosing and solving client problems. Whatever the challenges facing you as a consultant - from showing your clients how to manage and lead change, to improving relationships between departments, to goal setting and planning - this book provides dozens of client-tested problem-solving tools and solutions that can be used immediately, saving you hours of time and making your interaction with clients more effective.Created by 50 top professionals in the consulting industry, all the tools in this sourcebook are fully reproducible and can be easily customized to fit your client's needs.Included are creative, ready-to-implement approaches to guiding a client in: finding the right business strategy; making meetings more productive; creating effective teams; involving people in decisions that affect them; coaching employees through change; identifying performance problems; dealing with management resistance; stimulating creative thinking; and, much more!Dr. Mel Silberman is the author of "Active Training" and other organization development and training books. Professor of Adult and Organizational Development at Temple University, he is the editor of the annual "Team and Organization Development Sourcebook", and "The Training and Performance Sourcebook Annual". He has been a consultant to hundreds of corporate, governmental, educational, and human-service organizations, and is a popular presenter at professional conferences.

This title includes ready-to-use assessment tools for gathering valuable client data. As a consultant, your ability to improve your clients' performance depends on the quality of the data you obtain. "The Consultant's Big Book of Reproducible Surveys and Questionnaires" contains 50 easy-to-use diagnostic tools, designed by top consultants to provide you with insights about what your client needs - all without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on multiple copies. Featuring customizable instruments that are ready to copy or download from the Web, this value-packed collection includes: easy-to-use surveys and questionnaires; detailed scoring instructions; overviews, questions for follow-up discussion, and more. Quality, field-tested surveys and questionnaires can be a significant expense for any consultant."The Consultant's Big Book of Reproducible Surveys and Questionnaires" provides you with measurement instruments that are cost-effective, and yield meaningful, valuable data.It includes 50 surveys and questionnaires specifically designed to enhance your clients': leadership; development; employee development; team development; organizational performance; strategic planning; and change management.

This book contains easy-to-use interventions and activities for diagnosing and solving performance problems. Well-designed structured interventions are vital for consultants looking to understand and address their clients' individual, team, and organizational performance issues. "The Consultant's Big Book of Organization Development Tools" provides you with 50 ready-to-use activities, designed by some of today's top consultants. Featuring customizable tools that can be either copied or downloaded from the Web at no additional charge, this valuable collection features: simulations and team activities; facilitation tips; and, step-by-step instructions. Left unchecked, seemingly insignificant "soft issues" can mushroom into serious, costly organization-wide disasters.Use "The Consultant's Big Book of Organization Development Tools" to save both time and money as you accurately isolate and address your clients' pressing - and often undetected - team and organizational problems.It contains 50 hands-on tools specifically designed for developing your clients': leadership performance; employee performance; team performance; organizational performance; strategic planning and change management; meetings and retreats; and, one-to-one coaching/consultation and training sessions.