This book presents a comprehensive toolkit of the most important topics facing organizations today including managing change, launching organizational initiatives, facilitating teams, goal setting and planning, creative problem solving, building cooperation and trust, and team development.

A primer on the broad field of organization development (OD) and a foundation for understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner. Organizational Development Basics will help trainers, training managers, and beginning OD practitioners learn the fundamentals of influencing organizational strategy and direction. Learn the basics for managing change and aligning people, processes, and practices for success.

If you are looking for a sourcebook of cutting edge OD and leadership tools that can be used and adapted immediately, this book is for you. Trainers, coaches, consultants, and team leaders will find this book an invaluable resource with its dozens of instruments, handouts, and practical guides for creating ready-to-use training materials. Written by 47 world-class consultants and facilitators, ""The 2006 ASTD Organization Development & Leadership Sourcebook"" allows you to customize games, exercises, learning activities, assessment instruments, handouts, tip sheets, and implementation guides materials you need by downloading all them from the accompanying CD-ROM. Focusing on the hottest topics facing organizations today, this one-of-a-kind resource is a field-tested guide that will allow you to develop stronger leaders and healthier organizations.

This title draws on the expertise of top-flight trainers and consultants to present a comprehensive toolkit of the best training activities, group learning exercises, assessment instruments, handouts, and other essential guides for today's busy training and performance professional. The sourcebook offers fully reproducible tools contained on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Completely revised, this new edition of the classic book offers contributions from experts in the field (Warner Burke, David Campbell, Chris Worley, David Jamieson, Kim Cameron, Michael Beer, Edgar Schein, Gibb Dyer, and Margaret Wheatley) and provides a road map through each episode of change facilitation. This updated edition features new chapters on positive change, leadership transformation, sustainability, and globalization. In addition, it includes exhibits, activities, instruments, and case studies, supplemental materials on accompanying Website. This resource is written for OD practitioners, consultants, and scholars.

Seeks to find a balance between research and company practices. This text provides students with a background in the fundamentals of training and development - needs assessment, transfer of training, designing a learning environment, methods, and evaluation.