The Consultant's Big Book of Organizational Development Tools

The Consultant's Big Book of Organizational Development Tools provides 50 ready-to-use activities and tools designed to address your clients' individual, team, and organizational performance issues. Featuring customizable resources that can be either copied or downloaded from the Web at no additional charge, this valuable collection includes:

• Simulations
• Team-building activities
• Step-by-Step facilitation instructions

Left unchecked, seemingly insignificant "soft issues" can mushroom into serious, costly organization-wide disasters. Use The Consultant's Big Book of Organizational Development Tools to save both time and money as you accurately isolate and address your clients' pressing — and often undetected — team and organizational problems.

• Part I: Leadership Development
  1. Communicating Clearly and Effectively
     Richard Whelan and Robert Merritt
  2. Managing Time Effectively
     Steve Sugar and Bob Preziosi
  3. Developing Coaching Skills
     Andrew Kimball
  4. Delegating with Style
     Carol Harvey
  5. Assimilating the New Team Leader
     Ed Betof
  6. Training Leaders for Succes
     Ed Rose and Linda Becker
  7. Giving Feedback to Leaders
     Michael Bochenek
  8. Developing New Team Managers
     Deborah Hopen
  9. Trapping the Collective Power of a Group
     Leigh Mundhenk
  10. Practicing How to Coach
      Doris Sims
• Part II: Employee Development
  11. Getting a Quick Read on Your Training Group
      Carolyn Balling
  12.  Giving and Receiving Feedback
      Francesco Sofo
  13. Improving Listening Skills
      Kat Koppett
  14. Collaborating at On-Line Sessions and Web Conferences
      Alain Rostain
  15. Seeing through Another's Eyes
      Dave Arch
  16. Introducing Human Performance Technology
      Sivasailam Thiagarajan
  17. Linking Effort and Performance to Valued Outcomes
      John Sample
  18. Learning How to Learn
      Angela Deitch
  19. Assessing and Reinforcing Learning
      Susan Boyd
• Part III: Team Development
  20. Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing
      Tim Osgood
  21. Building Bridges between Two Teams
      Jean Haskell
  22. Clarifying New Team Projects and Initiatives
      Stephen Hobbs
  23. Encouraging Feedback
      Mel Silberman and Freda Hansburg
  24. Forming Learning Teams
      Bonnie Jameson
  25. Sinking or Swimming Together
      Sharon Bowman
  26. Using Diversity in Team Decision Making
      Dianne Saphiere
  27. Problem Solving by Distant Teams
      Catherine Sees and Lewis Welzel Jr.
  28. Building Strengths in Virtual Teams
      Heather Robinson
  29. Sharing Information in Teams
      Don Simpson
  30. Demonstrating Team Brainpower
      Ed Rose
  31. Building Ground Rules for Successful Teamwork
      Harriette Mishkin
• Part IV: Organization Development
  32. Building Organizational Commitment
      Cathleen Smith Hutchinson
  33. Fostering Creative Problem-Solving Skills within the Organization
      Tom Smith and David Price
  34. Managing Roadblocks to Getting Things Done
      Scott Simmerman
  35. Improving Work Design
      Leigh Mundhenk
  36. Balancing Advocacy and Inquiry
      Malcolm Burson
  37. Improving Meetings
      Edwina Harring
  38. Resolving Conflict Effectively
      Mel Silberman
  39. Communicating What You Mean
      Joan Cassidy
  40. Understanding Cultural Differences in the Organization
      Dianne Saphiere
  41. Developing Organizational Resiliency
      Mike Milstein and Annie Henry
• Part V: Strategic Planning and Change Management
  42. Exploring Issues about Mergers
      Barbara Ferrarini
  43. Understanding Change through Other People's Eyes
      Vicki Schneider
  44. Minimizing Resistance to Change and Innovation
      Scott Simmerman
  45. Thinking Positively
      Jeanne Baer
  46. Improving the Quality of Strategic Planning
      Tom Devance
  47. Learning Patience
      Karen Lawson
  48. Introducing Planning
      Becky Mills and Chris Saeger
  49. Creating a Mission Statement
      Sivasailam Thiagarajan
  50. Determining What Changes Are Needed
      Catherine Sees and Lewis Welzel Jr.

A big disappointment. It is only a number of play activities, to make groups of people gain insights of their own. Very run-of-mill, which everyone has been subjected to at different conferences (and which I personally always hate, as they assume we all are child-like and can't understand advanced instructions).

If this is your mettle, buy it, but don't blame me…