[.ca] Intervention Resource Guide: 50 Performance Improvement ... (ISBN 0787944017)

What a great way to expand your own toolset.:
I've been in the performance improvement world for 15 years and found the book a wonderful way to expand my knowledge beyond my set of experiences. I especially loved the case studies with the positive and negative examples. As someone who helps other performance technologists around the country, I will certainly recommend this as a great way to get the big picture do's and don'ts for an impressive number of tools.

Very good reference for selecting possible interventions.:
As a consultant in human reource management, productivity and quality improvement, I've found this book to be a valuable reference. I've often used it with clients as a starting point such as "Flow Charts" and "Process Mapping" with process improvement teams; and "New Employee Orientation" and "HRIS" with employment, training and development efforts. Recently, "Job Aids" was very helpful with a client who has high seasonal employment needs to assure good customer service and satisfaction. It's a good introduction to possible interventions. It gets people thinking. It provides good references for further learning and application. I've used it. I recommend it. MarclayD@AOL.com Thomas L. Davis

The most effective way to organize consultants knowledge:
For a human performance methodologist this book represent the state of the art of the knowledge.For the first time you can have the whole map of knowlege in the world of intervention, organized in a systematic and logic way. I find this book wonderful to train and support the next generation of consultants, both in the university and at work. The book helps you to convince the client not to "jump" to any fashional intervention, and to have corelation between the "medicine" and the dyagnostic phase. And, above all, the book talks in an international language, which fits the time of globalization. Here, overseas, the book is written in a common terminology, that fits our culture. Any human performance technologist should have this book on his desk.

Great suggestions and case studies for my students!:
As a professor at the State University of New York--Plattsburgh, I'm always looking for new case studies and ideas to share with my undergraduate students. The book clearly demonstrates what professionals in various fields are doing to improve structures within different contexts. Having worked with various non-profit organizations, this resource guide is useful both as a practioner and observer of organizational communication. Each of the proposed interventions clearly define, describe and apply techniques that could definitely improve communication within the workplace. I'm especially fond of the resources and references included at the end of each intervention.

An elegant solution for the front line manager:
I am an operations officer for a large military technical maintenance organization. If you are reading this review you are probably a leader and manager with some familiarity of organizational and human performance. You may also be looking for ways to increase your value to your team. If so, this book should be a tremendous help you. The Intervention Resource Guide (IRG) is a work that should sit not on your bookshelf, but on your desk top as a ready reference. I will not attempt to evaluate each intervention, as valuable as they are (of the ones I have used), but choose to focus on the heart of the book, "Part One, Intervention Selection and Implementation" which includes the "Matrix of Interventions". The editors have efficiently and credibly provided the leader-manager with the ability to make use of the proper intervention given the goal of: "Establishing, Improving, Maintaining or Extinguishing" performance in the "Business unit, Process, Work group, or Individual". All 50 interventions are evaluated for relevency against the above eight factors. By using their intervention selection model, any leader and manager should be able to select a proven intervention leading to a high probability of performance improvement. Conversely the avoidance of selecting the wrong intervention is just as valuable, and through use of the matrix, the leader should be able to avoid costly damage to the organization she serves. The Intervention Resource Guide provides an elegant solution to the workplace manager that wants to make the best use of systematic performance improvement tools.