Training Companies Books

As a reader with a longstanding interest in the work of motivational authors like Dale Carnegie, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley and Tony Robbins, I love the way Lisa Rose has created a synthesis of the very best advice these authors (and many more) have to offer. She offers wise and extremely useful advice that should be a great help to managers, employees, working moms, students, and just about everyone inbetween. I'm buying copies to distribute to everyone on my staff!

Intended to help medical students develop effective study methods and perform better with less stress, this text (second edition) offers strategies for studying anatomy, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, and more, as well as tips for excelling in the US Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE).

Norma Saks is assistant dean for educational programs and director of the cognitive skills program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Mark Saks, her son, is a resident in emergency medicine at Temple University Hospital

Quoted from Author! Author! section of Skidmore Scope, Winter, 2004. Submitted by Kurt E. Johnson, Ph. D., President and Publisher, J&S Publishing Company, Inc.

I found this to be a very useful book with alot of really interesting suggestions for arm training. There are numerous perspectives and chapters for everyone from hard core bodybuilders to average guys who just want better than average arms. Includes everything from classic routines for biceps, triceps and forearms as outlined by the kings of big arms such as Larry Scott, Bill Pearl, and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger to modern scientific approaches like positions of flexion training and EMG analysis of the most effective arm excersises. Ironman never ceases to provide excellent bodybuilding and strength training advice in their books and magazines. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to improve their biceps, triceps or forearms.

Within the first hour, you are not only understanding them, but You are also able to "link" together combining forms, and know what you are doing!

This book was fantastic, and I really did not have much desire to learn any medical terms in the beginning. It is now "well worn" and my brain and coding experience is the better for it.

I will always have this on my shelf. I also bought the "Instant Translator", based on the incredible info in the Language of Medicine, 7th Edition. I don't use it as much, because it is all covered in the "big guy", (although to carry around for a "quick" translation or abbreviation is awesome).

You will not be sorry with this book!

The best-practices companies that Robert Fulmer and Jared Bleak selected and then discuss in this lively volume are Caterpillar, Cisco Systems, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Washington Group International. That's quite a diverse group and all of them build a leadership advantage by committing to essentially the same four principles that serve as themes:

1. Making leadership development a strategic lever: "organizations experience major change events leading to profound teachable moments...[They] build a strong linkage between business strategy and leadership development strategy...[Their executives] use leadership development as a powerful tool to formulate, translate, and communicate strategy...[their] lean competency models and values are the foundations of strategic leadership development."

I have quoted these key points (provided in Chapter1) to indicate the scope of what Fulmer and Bleak cover in the next chapter in which they explore this principle in depth. They also provide (in Chapter 1) several key points that will guide and inform a careful reading of the other three principles:

2. Building an aligned architecture for strategic leadership development (Chapter 3)

Here's a "must read": Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution co-authored by Jeanne Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson.

3. Implementing successful strategic leadership development (Chapters 4 and 5)

Here's another "must read": Lawrence Hrebiniak's Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change.

4. Evaluating success (chapter 6)

Here's still another "must read": Dean Spitzer's Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success.

Then in Part II, Fulmer and Bleak present detailed case studies of the aforementioned best-practice companies, devoting a separate chapter to each. Yes, all of them are large corporations but there are important lessons that can be learned from each in terms of how a leadership advantage was achieved and then sustained by an effective leadership development program and these lessons are relevant to all organizations, regardless of size or nature. The importance of active and central involvement by C-level executives, especially by a CEO, cannot be exaggerated. It is worth noting that, Jeff Immelt, commits at least 25% of his time to helping to develop leadership among middle managers at GE.

This book will be of substantial benefit to any organization if (huge "if) its senior managers sincerely believe that its people are its most valuable asset. This shared faith will guide and inform leadership development initiatives, of course, but also initiatives in other important areas, such as recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, and then retaining those who possess the character, experience, talent, and skills needed in months and years to come.

TWO BOOKS IN THIS SERIES-As a great believer in the idea that the best trainers are also the best learners I was both reassured and amazed that one of the authors, Jeff Kinder, has the unique distinction of World Record Holder for ice skating on stilts! I guess that makes writing a couple of excellent training books seem like a stroll in the park. These books are extremely well set out with the activities categorised and detailed for maximum ease of use. There is a useful variety of "meatiness" and meanings in the activities along with some very imaginatively presented and practical theoretical background and facilitator support information. The second publication even has a support CD with ready-to-use activity handouts. A key feature of these books is that Elyssebeth Leigh & Jeff Kinder have ensured the freshness of the activities by drawing contributions from several professional facilitators from a range of industry cultures. This ensures that there is something for everyone, no matter what the industry or content area. So for any trainer or facilitator who believes in the power of participant-centred learning through involvement, active discovery and reflection, I highly recommend these two fresh publications. They are handsomely published in a practical A4 format by McGraw-Hill. Add them to your learning professionals' toolbox and maybe one day you will achieve the trainer's equivalent of skating on stilts!

excellent insight on human behaviour paralleled between real life in company and outside it, what makes the reader thinking out of schemes and usual,routinary conceiving of our life.
Easy and short, to be read with quiet around.

I used this book to teach a couple of claases to Internet novices. The text is clear and straightforward. The examples are fully illustrated with screen shots. The exercises are complete and accurate. I appreciate the extra material on MS Windows. Although this material is not actually Internet functionality, these features are poorly understood by the beginner and and must be covered nevertheless. I hope the authors update this book.

This is the standard way of training series. It is concise, practical, and useful. It is to the point of the purpose of teaching creativity and problem solving.

This book is not for people who want to learn about creativity.

I feel there is still some lack sense of FUN and FRESHNESS in the approach though.

If you need to teach about creativity and you know a lot already and want an additional material ready to use (or modify as you see fit, bu you need the FRAMEWORK), that this is the right book for you.

Complete with material to copy, why and what about it and some slides (gee, i hv not seen anybody useing slides these days, hope the writer can send me the powerpoint files instead).

It was writen about a decade ago, but it is finely framed out and ready to use on day one (hence comed the 5 stars).

With the more recognation of creativity as an important drive in the corporate world, i think this book will be perfect if modified to suit the time and age of today.

All in all, i still like this book and i will use some of the material incorporate into my training program.

+ Covers all the basics of MS Project.
+ Greg has experience and knowledge on PM and MS-Project.
+ Presentation is simple and easy to follow.
+ Can pause and replay the movies.
+ Feels like a personal tutor is with/for you.

- Greg has a heavy Australian accent.
- Looks like the CD was recorded at home.
- VTC CDs are priced a little too high.
- Requires QuickTime to play the movies.