The 2001 ASTD Training and Performance Yearbook

This yearbook provides current information on training and performance improvement. It is presented in six parts. Part one, 'The state of training: industry data, trends, and statistics', provides statistical information about the field of training and human resource development (HRD) and contains the following articles: The top HR issues of 2000 / HRFocus; To have and have a lot: trainers salaries 1999 / Kevin Dobbs; HR salary survey / Mark Avery; The shape of things to come: training careers in the 21st century / Dave Zielinski; Labour forecast: gray skies, worker drought continues / Richard W. Judy; The state of learning organizations / Steve Barth; The latest data on expenditures, types of training, and more; Industry report, information-technology training: teaching computer skills to American workers / Training Magazine; Training in the old economy / Anthony P. Carnevale and Donna Desrochers; Survey of Corporate University Future Directions / Jeanne C. Meister, Adam Eisenstat, and Brenda M. Velez. Part two, 'The cutting edge of training: e-learning and other new training technology', reviews the latest developments in e-learning and the use of technology in training and contains the following articles: How to find your way through a learning portal / Audrey Choden; E-learning takes off at United Airlines / Kim Kiser; The upside take on e-learning / Lisa Terry; QUALCOMM approach to online courses / Samuel Greengard; Virtual-reality training stalls / Melissa Larson; How to create lousy CBT lessons - how not to / William A. Deterline; The life and times of an e-trainer / Lesley Darling; Virtual corporate learning / Anne Stuart. Part three, 'Approaches to organizational and individual performance improvement', looks at policies and practices that lead to performance improvement and contains the following articles: Skills will be the secret to retention success in the 21st century / HRFocus; How to create a reservoir of ready-made leaders / William C. Byham; Running training like a business / David van Adelsberg and Edward A. Trolley; Portfolio thinking: a different approach to performance / Patricia A. McLagan; Six ways to foster peak performance / Christine Sevilla and Timothy D. Wells; In-house certification: more performance bang for your buck? / Raymond Robertson; Why won't they follow simple directions? / Gary Klein. Part four, 'Implementing performance improvement interventions', deals with creating and delivering training and other performance improvement interventions and contains the following articles: The attack on ISD / Jack Gordon and Ron Zemke; The training formula / Brooke Broadbent; Designing an effective new employee orientation program / Les McKeown and Julie Wilson; Real interactivity: connecting people with people / Sivasailam 'Thiagi' Thiagarajan; Successful mentoring, coaching and guiding relationships from a whole-person approach / Margaret Martinez; Training to make meetings work / Kathryn Tyler; Encourage informal training / Kevin Dobbs; Training to manage across silos / Roberta Reynes; The bridge evaluation model / Debra A. Sieloff; Evaluating training: there is no 'cookbook' approach / Fred Nickols; Measuring the effects of training: the Prudential LaunchPad case study / Sarah Sue Hardinger; Ten steps to determining the return on your training investment / Carolyn B. Thompson. Part five, 'Focusing on people to drive organizational strategy', provides examples of how human resource development and successful strategic initiatives are related and contains the following articles: Human capital / Thomas O. Davenport; Brand-aid / Craig R. Taylor and Cindy Wheatley; Reinventing training at Rockwell Collins / Sarah Fister; Technology is not enough: improving performance by building organizational memory / Rob Cross and Lloyd Baird; Moving from training to behavioral change in the workplace: 12 steps / Anthony C. Griffin and William D. Engs; The secrets of performance appraisal: best practices from the masters / Dick Grote. Part six, 'Training and performance resource almanac', contains the following resources: Training and performance resources online / Robert Magnan; Directory of magazines, journals and newsletters dealing with training and performance issues; Directory of training and performance associations and organizations; Calendar of conferences and events.