Praise for previous editions of Effective Succession Planning:
“...A valuable resource.” — HR Professional
“If you’re leading the succession planning charge in your company, you can find most anything you need to know in this book.”
— Training magazine
“Rothwell, through his aggressive research and a systematic approach to succession planning, has developed a guide for today’s leaders and HR managers on how to be prepared to deal with changes in key human capital.”
— Patrick E. Gerity, Ph.D., Executive Director, State System University Center for Southwest Pennsylvania
“This book is practical, readable, and highly useful to anyone seeking long-term solutions to the succession planning dilemma.”
— Stephen B. King, Ph.D., Executive Director, Leadership and Management Development, Management Concepts
“Dr. Rothwell brings the practices of succession planning into the fifth generation in this new book. Practitioners and others who are faced with planning and implementing state-of-the-art succession planning programs in organizations will find this to be a must-have resource.”
— David D. Dubois, Ph.D., President, DuBois & Associates, and author of Competency-Based Performance Improvement
“Rothwell brings succession planning into proper perspective for organizations. From an in-depth strategic viewpoint to an operational, applications-based approach, the author has captured and delivered a comprehensive approach to succession planning.”
— Dr. Robert K. Prescott, SPHR, Director, Management Development Institute, Eckerd College, affiliate of the Center for Creative Leadership
“This book equipped me with the skill set I needed to create and implement an effective succession plan for my organization. I found the activities and practical guides and tips extremely helpful for making my succession planning initiative a reality. This will make a huge difference in our ability to retain and develop our employees.”
— Marsha King, Ph.D., Senior Management Development Consultant, Capital One Financial
Next Generation Management Development: The Complete Guide and Resource
"The concepts and ideas in this book are powerful tools to help train managers to be effective leaders."
—Jay W. Lorsch, Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School
"Packed with gems such as well-known gurus' concepts and an exceptional number of innovative insights and integrative models, this monumental work is the closest to being a comprehensive bible on general management that I've ever seen."
—Thomas G. Plaskett, chairman of the board, Novell, Inc.; former chairman and CEO, Pan Am Corporation; and corporate director of Alcon, Inc. and RadioShack Corporation.
"Cecil and Rothwell have combined over fifty years of practical experiences into a treasure chest of training materials—complete with useful concepts, models, tools, and techniques—that will become the 'must-have' reference for developing managers, leaders, and entire organizations."
—Patrick A. Cataldo, Jr., associate dean for executive education, Pennsylvania State University, and formerly a member of the board of directors, American Society for Training and Development
Instructor Excellence: Mastering the Delivery of Training, 2nd Edition
“Finally! An update and expansion of Bob Powers’ outstanding performance standards for instructors. For years I’ve used those standards for myself and training trainers. The new pre-test, CD-ROM, and everything else in this book are all nuggets of knowledge for instructors.”
—Julie O’Mara, past president, American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and president, O’Mara and Associates
“For close to ten years Instructor Excellence spearheaded the implementation of performance standards within my organization, with phenomenal results. Employees, if trained following the performance standards laid out in this book, will perform with excellence.”
—William Downing, former executive vice president and CFO, AT&T
Beyond Instruction: Comprehensive Program Planning for Business and Education
"A wonderful contribution to adult education literature that brings together the many approaches to program planning in a single, highly usable volume. Whether you're designing an educational program that is built around directive, collaborative or non-directive principles, this book is certain to provide new insights and ideas on all aspects of the program planning process. It is a well organized, clearly presented and comprehensive handbook that will have tremAndous value for both the practicing professional and the student."
—S. Joseph Levine, professor, Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, Michigan State University
"A distinctive contribution of Rothwell and Cookson's contingency approach to program planning is their detailed attention to contextual analysis. In doing so, they have drawn broadly from examples, models, and preferences from the literature and from several of their surveys on needs assessment and evaluation practices and view points. The result is a book that explains the 'why' of practical guidelines based on a sound rationale."
—Alan B. Knox, professor, Department of Continuing and Vocational Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"This is no ordinary book on planning. In fact, it is quite extraordinary in both the breadth and depth of its treatment. Rothwell and Cookson have effected that rare combination of speaking with clarity and lucidness to even the neophyte planner, while at the same time offering a comprehensive and well-researched document to even the most seasoned practitioner and scholar."
—Marcie Boucouvalas, professor, Adult Education, Virginia Tech Graduate Center
"The two foundational models presented in this book represent a unique contribution to program planning. An understanding of the Lifelong Education Program Planning Model and its incorporation into educational and business settings will greatly facilitate planning as a strategic process. Its use along with the Contingency Based Program Planning Model offers versatility to planners in coping with ever-changing conditions."
—John A. Niemi, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Adult Continuing Education, Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies, Northern Illinois University
“Look no further, Bob Powers’ book still sets the standard for instructor performance excellence.”
—Roger M. Addison, CPT, past president, International Society for Performance Improvement; president, International Federation for Training Development Organizations, 2007 Certified in Performance Technology (CPT)
Improving On-the-Job Training: How to Establish and Operate a Comprehensive OJT Program, 2nd Edition
“An excellent contribution to the field, this book offers a realistic, practical focus on OJT, which is probably the most common form of training. It’s too easy for people to think that OJT is simple, when in fact success with OJT is elusive. This book will show you how to do it. Improving On-The-Job Training will show practitioners how to establish and run an effective OJT program.”
—Timothy W. Spannaus, research fellow, Institute for Learning and Performance Improvement, senior lecturer, Instructional Technology, Wayne State University
“As we expand our businesses, we will need workers to perform more complex tasks effectively. This book gives us an excellent model to implement OJT in real time and in real workplaces to create a high- performance workforce.”
—William H. Lowthert, leadership development manager, PPL Susquehanna
“Rothwell, a world-renowned training expert, addresses one of the most critical areas of training used by all businesses and is also the most common form of training, on-the-job training. This book will provide an invaluable tool fo r any business to use to systematically develop successful OJT programs. The information in this book will assist companies in improving their performance and productivity through the proven methods recommended by William Rothwell.”
—Patrick E. Gerity, executive director, Office of Corporate Partnerships, Slippery Rock University
“I was in the technical training business for over 30 years, 19 as the technical training manager for a Fortune 500 company before retiring. In all these years I’ve have seen many new approaches to training, but in reviewing all the new methods it still comes down to the most successful way of training especially hands-on and that is on-the-job training. This book provides a step-by-step practical methodology to improve performance. If companies would just follow the concepts in this book and adhere to them, training would be a normal part of an operation and the need for justification would no longer exist.”
—Joseph A. Benkowski, associate dean outreach, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Consultants, 2nd Edition
"Nowadays a good roadmap is needed to navigate all the roads, and this book does a great job of telling the reader of the variety of destinations that can be reached and how to reach them. ...this book is as complete a compendium on what OD is and can be as is currently available."
—Dr. Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder of the Addison-Wesley OD series in 1969
"Many of our organizations are in a crucible. Crucibles are utterly transformational experiences from which one emerges either hopelessly broken or powerfully emboldened to learn and lead. This book is a bright signal of what our change field has to assist you to become successful and make a difference in all you do."
—Dr. Warren Bennis, professor and founding chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California
“I love this book! I would like to see instructors and trainers everywhere apply the standards contained within. Our education system would be greatly enhanced.”------ —Simon Blattner, past chair, California College of the Arts and former CEO, Rittenhouse
The Action Learning Guidebook: A Real-Time Strategy for Problem Solving, Training Design, and Employee Development
"Two reasons to buy this book, read it from cover to cover, and apply the concepts immediately: (1) Rothwell is one of the best authors in the performance-improvement business; and (2) action learning is one of the most powerful performance-improvement strategies."
—Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, president, Workshops by Thiagi; editor, Thiagi GameLetter
"The Action Learning Guidebook is clearly written and the content is excellent. The chapter on partnering with clients to determine real training needs is a gem!"
—Dale M. Brethower, professor of psychology, Western Michigan University; president, International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)
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