Need to Address Workplace Issues and Challenges? The Answers Are in the 2004 Pfeiffer Annuals

Publications include CD-ROM and compile best practices in training and HR providing knowledge and resources for development professionals and organizational consultants

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 22, 2003 --Pfeiffer, an imprint of Wiley (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) and a leader in human resource development for more than 30 years, today announced the availability of two of its most anticipated publications of the year -- The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Training, and The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting. The Annuals offer training and human resource professionals as well as organizational consultants an array of ideas, methods, techniques, exercises and other resources to address and respond to workplace change and issues.

For the first time, this years Annuals include a CD-ROM that contains the books content. The CD provides increased convenience by creating an easily portable resource that allows users to print specific subject matter directly from the disc, such as experiential learning activities, instruments and articles. The CD also includes links to valuable training and human resources Web sites as well as customer care information.

For 32 years, the Pfeiffer Annuals have contained a collection of useful and practical materials written for trainers, consultants and performance-improvement technologists," said Jeanenne Ray, Pfeiffers marketing manager. And this years editions with the accompanying CD-ROMs ensure even greater value and ease-of-use."

The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Training
Shifting work patterns, constant organizational change and a continually increasing demand for new knowledge can challenge even the most experienced training professional. The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Training contains materials focused on skill building and knowledge enhancement, and features articles designed to improve the proficiency and professional development of trainers.

The book is divided into four sections, all of which can be freely reproduced for training purposes. They include:
•   Experiential Learning Activities (ELAs) -- the mainstay of the Annual that cover a broad range of training topics. The activities are presented as complete and ready-to-use training designs. Facilitator instructions and all necessary handouts and participant materials are included
•   Editors Choice -- material that doesn't fit the other categories and take advantage of hot topics
•   Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys -- introduces reliable survey and assessment tools for gathering and sharing data on aspects of personal awareness, performance or team development
•   Articles and Discussion Resources -- presents the best current thinking about training and organizational development for use within individual professional development or as lecture resources within trainings

The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting
Materials in the consulting volume focus on intervention techniques and organizational systems, and features articles geared toward the broad range of human resources consultants. The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting is a ready-made toolkit of ideas, methods, practices, and models that provide a highly accessible means of interacting with a variety of systems and processes as diverse as collaborative work systems and executive coaching to strategic planning and organization development.

Like The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Training, The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting is divided into the same four sections offering readers a variety of materials focused on specific tools and knowledge designed to improve competencies in areas such as facilitating skills, team building, consulting techniques, and opening and closing techniques.

Readers get experiential learning activities, instruments, and resources that are all customizable and reproducible to suit specific needs. Readers get materials that come from professionals who work in the field as trainers, consultants, facilitators, educators, and performance improvement technologists. This ensures that the materials have been tried and perfected in real-life settings, with actual participants and clients, to meet real-world needs.

About the Annuals

The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Training
Elaine Biech, Editor
Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint
December 2003, $75, Cloth/CD
ISBN: 0-7879-6930-3

The 2004 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting
Elaine Biech, Editor
Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint
December 2003, $75, Cloth/CD
0-7879-6929-X
About Pfeiffer

Pfeiffer serves the professional development and hands-on resource needs of training and human resource practitioners and gives them products to do their jobs better. The company delivers proven ideas and solutions from experts in HR development and HR management, and we offer effective and customizable tools to improve workplace performance. From novice to seasoned professional, Pfeiffer is the source you can trust to make yourself and your organization more successful. More is available at www.Pfeiffer.com.

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