First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis

By Allison Rossett

Book Overview

This hands-on book tells you how to quickly determine performance needs before investing precious time and resources. When trainers, consultants, and problem-solvers need to figure out what's wrong with an organization--and they need a solution fast--they need this book. Needs assessment is about doing things right; performance analysis guarantees doing the right thing. Rossett offers extensive guidance on: * Accelerating a performance analysis * Overcoming organizational obstacles * Using technology in analysis * Presenting the results of an analysis . . . and much more You'll get job aids, templates, and implementation examples that direct you through the basics of performance analysis. Carefully selected case studies further illustrate the text. Visit the First Things Fast online coaching and information system and get information about how to encourage analysis in the organization and what strategies are best for doing it. This online information and coaching tool, designed by award-winning author Allison Rossett, offers planning tips and tools to get things done . . . fast

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787944386
• ISBN13: 9780787944384
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Pfeiffer & Co
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Must Have Resource

This book is a must have resource on your shelf. It's advice is timeless, examples practical, and the book is easy to implement. It is a go to book whenever I need a refresher. It also helps IDs and PCs get out of analysis paralysis and into the business of identifying performance gaps and determining causes and appropriate solutions/interventions.

Guess who's coming to dinner

This book serves as the first course at a performance analysis dinner-it whets the appetite and entices the reader to look further and deeper. It provides the reader with tasty morsels of information without weighing the reader down in the heavier technicalities of performance analysis. First Things Fast is a quick and easy reference for the professional trainer and one that I will keep on hand for future use. It addresses the situation as it is-the way things are-and provides concrete examples and solutions for those involved with the process. Because of the quick and easy reading that characterizes the book, I would recommend this book to those who are seeking a basic understanding of performance analysis without wanting to invest a great deal of time. I would also recommend it to those who want a quick reference for use in their performance analysis work (the templates are an effective starting point for the line of questioning which needs to occur). First Things Fast has the potential to be an extremely useful tool for those individuals who are in the position to decide what needs to be done and why.

An illuminating, practical guide for performance consulting

Rossett makes a very useful distinction in this book between performance analysis and training needs analysis. She recommends an action-oriented consulting approach that ensures the real problems and potential solutions are identified before selecting training as an intervention. Her approach is practical and recognizes the time and resource constraints that learning consultants, managers, and their companies operate within. I have ordered copies for all of my staff!

Great guide to quick human performance analysis

This book is a great help for anyone who is asked to analyze a performance problem. It provides a series of checklists and job aids to help someone figure out what's going on and how to fix it. It considers lots of problems and teaches you how to decide if the employee needs instruction, motivation or a changed environment. I really enjoyed this very practical and easy to read handbook; it avoids all the theory and jargon and puts the emphasis on analyzing human performance problems in a quick, efficient manner.