At your fingertips is this valuable source of ideas, concepts, and step-by-step activities. Now you can effectively promote the HR training function within your organization. This unique guide shows you how to: * assess and tune up your department's image * promote HRD's added value to the business * appeal to diverse company groups * keep awareness high by staying visible * enhance relationships inside your organization * make sure administration doesn't tarnish your image * capitalize on work with external consultants * determine if the department should sell to a wider market In addition, you will find: * insightful case studies * easy-to-organize activities * a training image assessment survey * an inventory of training styles * a customer-focus checklist Overflowing with ideas, 'HRD Survival Skills' supplies your training and development teams with actual examples taken from diverse industries, sectors, and countries. Here's your blueprint to ensure that the services you provide are the right services for your in-house 'customers'.

117 San Francisco Bay Area jazz and blues musicians are represented here through photographs and brief biographies. All were captured in their natural element; namely, the bandstand. While not a complete compendium of the the area's artists, it is nonetheless a significant overview of the Bay Area contributors to the jazz scene in 2013. Small enough to carry to events and collect autographs on each page, the book should be an essential part of any local music lover's collection.