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: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

Authors:Ed Robinson, Carolyn Robinson,
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: plan
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1973-01-06
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0882660241
ISBN-13: 9780882660240

This 50-year-old back-to-the-land classic shows how to find land, build a homestead, grow vegetables and fruits, raise livestock, build farm structures, and more.

Authors:William Robinson, Robinson William Robinson,
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: america, gardening, culture, mushroom
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-11-12
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1429013222
ISBN-13: 9781429013222

William Robinson’s 1870s book is a complete source of information on the culture of mushrooms.

Author: I. S. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: medieval, textbooks, cambridge, innovation, continuity, papacy
Number of Pages: 572
Published: 1990-07-27
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0521319226
ISBN-13: 9780521319225

Before the mid-eleventh century the pope was far from being the active leader of the Roman Catholic Church that he is today: he restricted himself to the local concerns of the diocese of Rome and was virtually ignored by the outside world. This book is a study of the transformation of the role of the pope in the twelfth century, from which he emerged as monarch of the universal Church, dedicated to reform and to making the Church independent of secular control. The most important role in the new model government was given to the cardinals, who hence forward were the principal advisers, agen