Synopses & Reviews
Praise for Job Aids and Performance Support"Allison Rossett shines her spotlight on performance support through job aids, low and high tech, available now and coming soon. She and co-author Lisa Schafer dazzle us with possibilities for Planners (for just before and after the performance challenge) and Sidekicks (great term! for what to do right now). Lively language, wide-ranging examples, and cautions about possible dark sides make this book an invaluable sidekick for performance-focused professionals."
—Mary L. Broad, international consultant and author, Beyond Transfer of Training
"This is PS, performance support that isn't always electronic or part of an elaborate system. A simple, inexpensive sticky note, map, wizard, reference card, poster or cheat sheet can be just as effective as pricier techniques. This book is chock full of fresh thinking and useful solutions."
—Jay Cross, Internet Time Group, and author, Informal Learning
"Job Aids and Performance Supportin the Workplace gives us everything we've ever wanted to know about these invaluable tools and techniques! Allison Rossett and Lisa Schafer have created a comprehensive, pragmatic, and very readable guide. The authors don't exaggerate when they claim it's 'knowledge everywhere.' "
—Pat Crull, chief learning officer, Time-Warner
"Have you thought of city-wide Internet access as a service to citizens, like water, electricity, and trash collection? Well, why not? Once again, Allison Rossett has spoken in her practical and engaging way. She and Lisa Schafer made me think in new ways and remember why I got into the performance improvement business in the first place. Like every good teacher, Rossett somehow makes you feel you 'already knew it,' and you are eager to get started anew."
—Charlotte Donaldson, learning and development associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Review
"Allison Rossett shines her spotlight on performance support through job aids, low and high tech, available now and coming soon. She and co-author Lisa Schafer dazzle us with possibilities for Planners (for just before and after the performance challenge) and Sidekicks (great term! for what to do right now). Lively language, wide-ranging examples, and cautions about possible dark sides make this book an invaluable sidekick for performance-focused professionals."
—Mary L. Broad, international consultant and author, Beyond Transfer of Training
"This is PS, performance support that isn't always electronic or part of an elaborate system. A simple, inexpensive sticky note, map, wizard, reference card, poster or cheat sheet can be just as effective as pricier techniques. This book is chock full of fresh thinking and useful solutions."
—Jay Cross, Internet Time Group, and author, Informal Learning
"Job Aids and Performance Supportin the Workplace gives us everything we've ever wanted to know about these invaluable tools and techniques! Allison Rossett and Lisa Schafer have created a comprehensive, pragmatic, and very readable guide. The authors don't exaggerate when they claim it's 'knowledge everywhere.' "
—Pat Crull, chief learning officer, Time-Warner
"Have you thought of city-wide Internet access as a service to citizens, like water, electricity, and trash collection? Well, why not? Once again, Allison Rossett has spoken in her practical and engaging way. She and Lisa Schafer made me think in new ways and remember why I got into the performance improvement business in the first place. Like every good teacher, Rossett somehow makes you feel you 'already knew it,' and you are eager to get started anew."
—Charlotte Donaldson, learning and development associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Synopsis
Job Aids and Performance Support in the Workplacegives us everything we’ve ever wanted to know about these invaluable tools and techniques! Allison Rossett and Lisa Schafer have created a comprehensive, pragmatic, and very readable guide. The authors don’t exaggerate when they claim it’s ‘knowledge everywhere.’
Synopsis
You can save time and money and improve work performance throughout your organization--with the help of job aids. Job aids make it easier to perform tasks by providing access to information, procedures, policies, and examples. These sources of information make it easier to perform tasks by providing access to information, examples, policies, and procedures. Paired with training and supervisory support, job aids play a key role in introducing new work technologies and systems. The authors clearly instruct you how to create seven job aid formats:
- step job aids
- worksheets
- arrays
- decision tables
- flow charts
- checklists
- combination job aids.
Learn about every step of job aid implementation:
- Identifying the problem
- Choosing the format and the medium
- Preparing the job aid draft
- Piloting the job aid
- Making revisions to the job aid
- Managing the job aid
With this guide, you will:
- Establish new and expanded ways of defining job aids
- Offer approaches that broaden opportunities to employ job aids
- Present strategies to improve the quality of the job aids that are developed...and much more!
The authors reinforce each job aid with a case study that shows just how the job aid can be used. Without job aids, employees often don't know where to find information. They can waste their own time--and the time of others--seeking answers. With effective job aids in place, employees will stop wondering where to go: the job aids will provide the information they need.
Job aids save huge amounts of time and money. Any trainer or manager seeking to improve organizational effectiveness should look no further--A Handbook of Job Aids is the most comprehensive job aid source available.
About the Author
ALLISON ROSSETT, professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is a consultant in the design, development, and evaluation of performance and training systems. A native New Yorker, ping pong champion in her youth, and yo-yoer in training, Allison has offered keynote speeches in this country and abroad. She teaches classes and consults on instructional design, learning technologies, performance analysis and needs assessment, and indepAndent learning.Rossett was the recipient of an Association for Educational Technology Book of the Year Award for her Training Needs Assessment. Her book, A Handbook of Job Aids, published by Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, won the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) top book award and an Association for Educational Technology Tool of the Year Award. She has also published dozens of articles, edited journals, offered seminars, coached and advised business and government leaders, evaluated programs, and managed corporate contracts and federal and state grants.
Table of Contents
UNDERSTANDING JOB AIDS.
Introduction to Job Aids.
The Benefits of Job Aids.
When to Use Job Aids.
Kinds of Job Aids.
DEVELOPING JOB AIDS.
Formats for Job Aids.
Steps for Developing Job Aids.
EXAMPLES OF JOB AIDS.
Job Aids for Informing.
Job Aids for Procedures.
Job Aids for Decision Making and Coaching.
TRENDS IN JOB AIDS.
Into the Future: Trends in Organization.
Technology for Job Aids.
Conclusions About Job Aids.
Index.