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Judith Hale (Author)
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0787940194 978-0787940195 June 5, 1998 1
A career guide and a reference tool--in a single source!

Internal or external consultant, novice or expert, you've probably heard about performance consulting, a high-impact approach that blAnds old-fashioned facilitation skills with cutting-edge process and outcome analysis. You want to gain the expertise necessary to identify why an organization is out of alignment, what interventions will correct these problems, and how you can measure your consulting success.

Everyone in the performance improvement industry should have a copy of [Hale's] book sitting on their desk for easy reference at all times.
--Gwen Nichols-White, training manager, Siemens Medical Systems

This remarkable book is your skill-builder and resource guide. The step-by-step Fieldbook shows you how to make the professional transition to a performance consulting career.

You'll use this guide to:

  • Define and describe your consulting skills
  • Determine the costs and measure the effectiveness of your consulting process
  • And much more!
Hale has done an outstanding job in this book of contributing to everyone's use of performance technology.
--Danny Langdon, president, Performance International

The Fieldbook details the techniques you need to conduct performance interventions and offers a customizable collection of worksheets, flowcharts, planning guides, and job aids. You'll use these resources to structure your presentations, to ensure clear communication, and to build client confidence.

Employees don't need to learn more; they need to perform better. And as a performance consultant armed with Hale's Fieldbook, you will have the tools you need to effect measurable enhancements in performance.

Make the transition to performance consultant today!

The Fieldbook enables you to:

  • Analyze an organizational environment
  • Diagnose performance problems
  • Identify barriers to performance
  • Select appropriate interventions
  • Measure intervention success...and much more!



Editorial Reviews

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Everyone in the performance improvement industry should have a copy of [Hale's] book sitting on their desk for easy reference at all times. (Gwen Nichols-White, training manager, Siemens Medical Systems)

A pragmatic guide for novice through expert performance consultants. The examples reflect real-world situations and show you how to apply what is presented. The customizable tools provide consistency when you're starting out and flexibility when you want to modify them based on your experience. (Nina Adams, president, Adams Consulting Group)

Judy Hale shares wisdom gained from years in the field of improving human performance through these tools for practitioners and would-be practitioners of performance consulting. (Dean Larson, Ph.D., department manager, safety and industrial hygiene, U.S. Steel)

Hale has done an outstanding job in this book of contributing to anyone's use of performance technology. (Danny Langdon, president, Performance International)

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Internal or external consultant, novice or expert, you've probably heard about performance consulting, a high-impact approach that blends old-fashioned facilitation skills with cutting-edge process and outcome analysis. You want to gain the expertise necessary to identify why an organization is out of alignment, what interventions will correct these problems, and how you can measure your consulting success. "Everyone in the performance improvement industry should have a copy of [Hale's] book sitting on their desk for easy reference at all times."—Gwen Nichols-White, training manager, Siemens Medical SystemsThis remarkable book is your skill-builder and resource guide. The step-by-step Fieldbook shows you how to make the professional transition to a performance consulting career.You'll use this guide to:
  • define and describe your consulting skills
  • determine the costs and measure the effectiveness of your consulting process...and much more!
"Hale has done an outstanding job in this book of contributing to everyone's use of performance technology."—Danny Langdon, president, Performance International The Fieldbook details the techniques you need to conduct performance interventions and offers a customizable collection of worksheets, flowcharts, planning guides, and job aids. You'll use these resources to structure your presentations, to ensure clear communication, and to build client confidence.The Fieldbook enables you to:
  • Analyze an organizational environment
  • Diagnose performance problems
  • Identify barriers to performance
  • Select appropriate interventions
  • Measure intervention success...and much more!
Employees don't need to learn more; they need to perform better. And as a performance consultant armed with Hale's Fieldbook, you will have the tools you need to effect measurable enhancements in performance. Make the transition to performance consultant today!

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (June 5, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0787940194
  • ISBN-13: 978-0787940195
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for new Performance Consultants, November 25, 1998
This review is from: The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook, includes a Microsoft Word diskette: Tools and Techniques for Improving Organizations and People (Paperback)
Judith Hale is a proven professional in the field of human performance consulting, and in this book she generously shares her depth of knowledge and experience. Most valuable, I think, she accurately portrays the potentially overwhelming complexity that is characteristic of effectiveness in (a) assessing human performance levels, (b) diagnosing prevailing barriers to higher levels of performance, and (c) designing and delivering "whole system" interventions that can achieve the desired improvements. She also speaks candidly about the crucial relationship and alchemy that must exist between consultant and (manager/executive) client.

Judith has developed numerous tools and techniques to aid her in her own consulting work, and she presents many of them in this book in the context of her full and accurate perspective of effective human performance consulting in action. Even professionals that have been working in this field for years will find tools and techniques that can enhance their work.

I have put this book to the test as a "tool for learning" and I works beautifully. As a 20-year veteran consultant in this field, with much of my current work focused on developing new candidates to do this important work, I have used Judith's book as required pre-reading and as a tool for facilitating workshop activities. It has become required reading for all serious learners, and a regular part of our development programs. I heartily give The Performance Consultant's Fieldbook "two thumbs up."

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Resource for those who work with Performance, March 6, 2000
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Judith Hale's book-title should not put off those who don't have the job-title "Performance Consultant". Anyone who is required to determine how performance can be improved--HR Development Professionals and Trainers, especially--will benefit from the tools and worksheets she shares.

The last five chapters of the book detail her techniques and share some of her tools for determining the source(s) of performance problems, identifying interventions that will improve performance, and instruments to help measure the results of the improvement. Her book sits on my shelf within easy reach, and gets used often.

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