Employee Development on a Shoestring

It has been estimated that 70 percent of employee development takes place through informal learning, rather than through formal learning events. Employee Development on a Shoestring offers insights and lessons for cost-effectively leveraging these naturally occurring growth opportunities in developing leaders within your organization.
Covering every aspect of the leadership training process, Employee Development on a Shoestring provides in-depth chapters on all facets of the employee development cycle, including:
? Initial goal-setting and preparation for your leadership training program.

? Employing the SMART goal system to maximizing success and return-on-investment
? How to leverage the process and power of mentoring
? Identifying what comes naturally and creating assignments which solve a preexisting need
Employee Development on a Shoestring is a comprehensive tutorial for all managers, manager trainers, human resources (HR) personnel, coaches, and other professionals who are involved in building a leadership training program that produces competent leaders efficiently and within budget.

Halelly Azulay is a workplace learning professional specializing in guiding people and organizations of all types and sizes to peak performance. She brings 20 years of professional experience in the fields of workplace learning and communication to corporate, government, regulatory, nonprofit, and academic clients. Halelly is the president of TalentGrow, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams to improve the human side of work. TalentGrow specializes in leadership, communication skills, team building, facilitation, coaching, and emotional intelligence. Halelly works with all organizational levels including C-level leaders, frontline managers, and individual contributors. Halelly works with organizations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Naval Research, FINRA (formerly NASD), and the University of Maryland among others. She is past president of the board of the award-winning metro D.C. chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), where she served in various leadership roles from 2005 to 2010. Halelly was selected to judge the 2009 and 2010 Apollo Awards for excellence in employee development and is a sought after speaker at conferences and meetings for various organizations about leadership, employee development, and communication.

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