By James S. Pepitone

AddVantage Learning Press, 1995

ISBN 0-9635822-1-6 / $18.50

Quit wasting money on training that doesn’t improve performance. Learn the built-in limitations of training, and learn ways to make sure training and other performance-improvement initiatives result in a measurable difference in employee behavior. Here’s your chance to rethink the purpose, redefine the process, and redeploy the resources of today’s training department. Find out why most companies are transforming the traditional training function into a new role that is a credible source of improved operational performance and value-added. Learn how to capitalize on the untapped potential to leverage the human capital in your organization.

The training function continues to come under increasing scrutiny by management regarding its relevance, effectiveness, and value-added for the investment it represents. Management’s evaluation is driven by increasing competitive pressures that have never been greater, coupled with the strategic challenge to develop organizational competitive advantage. A radical change is needed.

This book presents the new, more helpful role for corporate training that major companies are adopting. It outlines a strategy for the fundamental transformation of the training function, including rethinking and redefining its purpose, redesigning and reengineering its processes, and repositioning and redeploying its resources. As a result, the performance-improvement function that emerges takes on a more credible professional role, capitalizes on the untapped potential of training practitioners, and develops the potential to improve organizational performance and productivity.

Read a review of Future Training by William W. Lee, Ph.D., training tanager with EDS, as published in Performance Improvement Quarterly, 9(3), pp. 80-82. Reprinted with permission.

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