Authors:Dana Gaines Robinson, James C Robinson,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: consulting, performance
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1881052842
ISBN-13: 9781881052845

The traditional training process confuses training activity with performance improvement by focusing on employees’ learning needs, rather than on their performance needs. Traditional programs focus on developing excellent learning experiences, while failing to ensure that the newly acquired skills are transferred to the job. Thus, to be effective, training professionals must become "performance consultants, " shifting their focus from training delivery to the performance of the company and its individual contributors. Dana & Jim Robinson describe an approach suitable for use in any organ

Authors:Dana Gaines-Robinson, James C Robinson,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: guidebook, practical, performance, training, moving
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1576750396
ISBN-13: 9781576750391

Taking off where the best-selling book Performance Consulting left off, Moving From Training to Performance guides your organization in the transition from a traditional focus on training to a focus on human performance improvement. Get lots of expert advice from the most recognized names in the field.

Authors:Dana Gaines Robinson, James C Robinson,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Keywords: consulting, performance
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1881052303
ISBN-13: 9781881052302

Performance Consulting provides a conceptual framework and many how-to’s for moving from the role of a traditional trainer to that of a performance consultant. Dozens of useful tools, illustrative exercises, and a case study that threads through the book show how the techniques described are applied in an organizational setting.

Authors:Dana Gaines Robinson, James C Robinso,
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publisher
Keywords: business, strategies, goals, people, aligning, partner, strategic
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 2005-02-10
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1576752836
ISBN-13: 9781576752838

There is no more critical role for today’s human resource professionals than that of Strategic Business partner (SBP). SBPs demonstrate competence in many ways — through their questioning of clients, their knowledge of the business, and their ability to translate business needs into performance requirements and people initiatives. But performing effectively as an SBP requires use of a mental model as a guide or rudder. This practical book provides that model. Experts Dana and Jim Robinson describe the four key concepts integral to this mental model and critical to success as an SBP. The

Authors:Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dana Gaines Robinson, James C.
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: performance, achieve, higher, target, gaps, zap
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0060503009
ISBN-13: 9780060503000

Through business classics like The One Minute Manager and Raving Fans, bestselling author Ken Blanchard has become a nationally recognized business guru, presenting revolutionary new approaches to management, leadership, customer service, and more. Now Blanchard teams up with Dana and Jim Robinson to tackle the crucial issue of human performance in Zap the Gaps!, an entertaining business parable that combines Blanchard’s storytelling talents with the Robinsons’ pioneering problem-solving approach.Managers at all levels within organizations often see a problem and jump to a solution

Authors:Juliette Starr Dana, David T. Dana, David T. Dana,
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keywords: lakes, starr, dana, juliette, books, mississippi, tour, upper, fashionable, journal
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0814332056
ISBN-13: 9780814332054

A rare glimpse of American frontier life as told by the private journal of a wealthy woman’s "pleasure" tour from New York City to Minnesota in the summer of 1852.

Authors:Robinson Robinson, Peter Robinson,
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, deeds, untitled
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1844710440
ISBN-13: 9781844710447

Over the past quarter of a century or so, Peter Robinson has gained a reputation for his lyric poetry, translations, and critical writings devoted to modern and contemporary verse. "Untitled Deeds" is composed of sequenced aphorisms, observations, and remarks on such varied topics as the fear of death, mobile phones, conceptual art, international soccer, the linguistic behaviour of politicians, market forces, and, of course, the writing and reception of poetry. It is followed by "The Draft Will", a series of prose-poems which explores some obscured questions of family history and the intimate