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How to Create a Good Learning Environment—Training Basics
Author Cat Sharpe
Why does even the most expertly designed and deployed training sometimes fail to produce the desired results? Could a poor learning environment be the answer? This issue presents a comprehensive discussion of why and how adults learn. It discusses various instructio....
Release Date 1997/05 -
More Productive Meetings—Business Skills
Author Cat Sharpe
This issue describes the different purposes of meetings and common characteristics of effective meetings. It outlines planning steps, meeting process steps, and activity guidelines for more efficient, productive meetings, and covers the special roles participants pl....
Release Date 1997/05 -
How to Conduct a Cost-Benefit Analysis
Author Cat Sharpe
This issue provides a detailed approach to calculating a cost-benefit analysis. It includes a four-step model to calculate costs: personnel, material, delivery, and total expenditures. It also presents practice case studies to explain the process.
Release Date 1997/05 -
Accelerated Learning—Training Basics
Author Deborah M. Fairbanks
The challenge to do more with less and in less time is the mantra of every organization. Accelerated learning is the training professionals answer to this business reality. This Infoline offers you a short course in the principles, process, and techniques of acceler....
Release Date 1997/05 -
Author Gene Spafford , Simson Garfinkel
Attacks on government Web sites, break-ins at Internet service providers, electronic credit card fraud, invasion of personal privacy by merchants as well as hackers--is this what the World Wide Web is really all about? Web Security & Commerce cuts through the h....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Listening to Learn; Learning to Listen
Author Diane Kirrane
The average employee spends 30-60 percent of his or her day listening, yet listening skills are rarely taught. This Info-line provides aids to understanding, speaking, and listening. Offers guidelines for giving feedback. Makes suggestions about what to include in a....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Basics of Instructional Systems Development—Instructional Systems Development
Author Chuck Hodell
Instructional systems development (ISD) can be a complicated business, and sometimes you just need an overview. Heres the Infoline for you. This issue provides an ISD overview along with a short profile of each component the simple design model known as ADDIE (Analy....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Simplified Design of Data Converters
Author John Lenk
Simplified Design of Data Converters shows how to design and experiment with data converters, both analog-to-digital and digital to analog. The design approach here is the same one used in all of John Lenk's best-selling books on simplified and practical design. Th....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Choosing 360: A Guide to Evaluating Multi-rater Feedback Instruments for Management Development
Author John Fleenor , Jean Brittain Leslie , Ellen Van Van Velsor
Feedback is a rare commodity in organizational life, but it is key to managerial effectiveness. One increasingly popular vehicle for getting feedback from one's boss, peers, and subordinates is the multiple-perspective, or 360-degree, feedback instrument. Use of s....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Author Randal L. Schwartz , Tom Christiansen
In this update of a bestseller, two leading Perl trainers teach you to use the most universal scripting language in the age of the World Wide Web. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this smooth, carefully paced book is the "official" guide for both....
Release Date 1997/07 -
Art of Computer Programming, The: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
Author Donald E. Knuth
&>The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer programming.—Byte, September 1995I can't begin to tell you how many pleasurable hours of study and recreation they h....
Release Date 1997/07 -
Author Sriram Srinivasan
So you've learned Perl, but you're getting frustrated. Perhaps you've taken on a larger project than the ones you're used to. Or you want to add a user interface or a networking component. Or you need to do more complicated error trapping. Whether your knowledg....
Release Date 1997/08 -
Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition
Author Steve Oualline
There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks(R) famous.C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debugging also play a tremendous part in cre....
Release Date 1997/08 -
Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
Author Tom Christiansen , Erik Olson , Randal L. Schwartz
In this smooth, carefully paced course, leading Perl trainers and a Windows NT practitioner teach you to program in the language that promises to emerge as the scripting language of choice on NT. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this book is the ....
Release Date 1997/08 -
On-the-Job Training—Managing the Training Function
Author Charles I. Levine , Ph.D.
Most training, whether intentional or not, is on the job training. But how do you use the power of this ancient form of training to enhance performance? This Infoline covers the essentials of on-the-job training (OJT) with ideas for using both structured and unstruc....
Release Date 1997/08 -
Practical Newspaper Reporting, 3rd Edition
Author Geoffrey Harris , David Spark
This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers:What is news?How the modern newsroom operatesHow facts are gathered and checkedThe reporter and picture ideasDistrict reportingTechniq....
Release Date 1997/08 -
Author Robert H. Jacobs
The most successful organizations of the future will be those that are capable of rapidly and effectively bringing about fundamental, lasting, system-wide changes.In response to this challenge, Real Time Strategic Change advocates a fundamental redesign of the ....
Release Date 1997/08 -
Surface Mount Technology Terms and Concepts
Author Phil Zarrow
In today's fast-paced world of technology, keeping up with new terms and concepts can be quite a challenge. Surface Mount Technology Terms and Concepts is an invaluable reference containing over 1000 terms and definitions used in the SMT field. Each term is f....
Release Date 1997/09 -
Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, Third Edition
Author Robert Sedgewick
Robert Sedgewick has thoroughly rewritten and substantially expanded his popular work to provide current and comprehensive coverage of important algorithms and data structures. Many new algorithms are presented, and the explanations of each algorithm are much more d....
Release Date 1997/09 -
Paradoxes of Group Life: Understanding Conflict, Paralysis, and Movement in Group Dynamics
Author David N. Berg , Kenwyn K. Smith
During the past decade, leaders have increasingly relied on self-managing work groups, multifunctional teams, and cross-national executive groups to create the organization of the future. Yet groups are not a panacea for organizational problems; conflicts between in....
Release Date 1997/09 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Assertiveness
Author Jeff Davidson
You're no idiot, of course. You excel at your job, raise great kids, and even participate in local organizations. But when it comes to asserting yourself in tricky situations, you feel like hiding under your desk. Stand up and be heard! The 'Complete Idiot's Gui....
Release Date 1997/09 -
Author Harrison H. Owen
Open Space Technology (OST) is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants. First developed in 1984, it has now been used around the world with all types of organizations including c....
Release Date 1997/09 -
Navigating C++ and Object-Oriented Design
Author Gail Anderson , Paul Anderson
53274-7Learn ANSI C++ right from the start!If you're going to learn C++, learn it right from the start! Navigating C++ and Object-Oriented Design is the first book that teaches ANSI C++ and the object-oriented techniques that make C++ a software development breakt....
Release Date 1997/10 -
Special Edition Using Access 97, Second Edition
Author Roger Jennings
Special Edition Using Access 97, Second Edition, is your authoritative guide to mastering every facet of this powerful 32-bit database development platform. Get started quickly by using the Database Wizard to create a working Access 97 application in less than 30 mi....
Release Date 1997/10 -
Basic TV Reporting, 2nd Edition
Author Ivor Yorke
Basic TV Reporting is a practical, easy to read guide to the skills needed to become a successful television reporter - arguably the most demanding and glamorous job in journalism. The book describes the role in detail, how reporters fit into the editorial te....
Release Date 1997/10 -
Documentary for the Small Screen
Author Paul Kriwaczek
Film and video have grown to be as significant in our time as books, newspapers and magazines. Documentary film-making is fast becoming as important and useful a skill as the ability to write well. Like writing, it can be learned by anyone. Film and video hav....
Release Date 1997/10 -
Concert Tour Production Management
Author John Vasey
Concert Tour Production Management deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to literally get the show on the road. Concert Tour Production Management provides the basic information to manage the production for a touring con....
Release Date 1997/10 -
Author Hazel Henderson
In Building a Win-Win World , world-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide-a spread which is ofte....
Release Date 1997/10