The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Organizational Development | Stephen R. Balzac

Take a crash course in one of today's most important business skills--organizational development!

Change comes fast, and the most successful organizations are prepared to handle it before impact; they act, not react. How are they able to do this? With a solid grounding in organizational development.

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Organizational Development is a skill-building guide to one of the most important functions in business today. In no time, you'll be able to recognize patterns of organizational behavior that are detrimental to your organization, and you'll have the skills to envision and drive the type of change your company needs. Concise, engaging, and filled with quizzes to help you reinforce lessons learned, this crash course offers the knowledge you need to:

• Address problems with your company’s culture

• Hire the best people for your needs

• Set goals and move your team to action

• Motivate your people to envision change

• Institute meaningful change in how your company functions

  Change can be your company's best friend. You just have to manage it with skill. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Organizational Development puts you on the fast track to face today’s, not yesterday's, challenges.

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About the Author

Stephen R. Balzac, "The Business Sensei,"is a consultant and professional speaker. He is the president of 7 Steps Ahead,LLC, (7stepsahead.com) a consulting firm specializing in helping leaders grow their organizations.

Steve has over twenty years of experience in the high tech industry and isthe former Director of Operations for Silicon Genetics, in Redwood City, CA,where he was responsible for shipping their flagship product. Steve led thedevelopment of numerous serious roleplaying simulations, including a PandemicFlu simulation for the US National Capitol Region. He is a popular speaker ontopics ranging from leadership, motivation, team building, innovation, andsport performance to computer game design. His articles have appeared in anumber of journals, including Mass High Tech, Enterprise Management Quarterly,The CEO Refresher, The Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, Analog SF/Fand the Worcester Business Journal. Steve is a contributing author to Ethics and Game Design: Teaching ValuesThrough Play and the author of the 36-Hour Course in OrganizationalDevelopment.

Steve serves on the board of the New England Society of Applied Psychology(NESAP) and is the president of the Society of Professional Consultants (SPC).No stranger to the challenges of achieving peak performance under competitiveand stressful conditions, he holds a fourth degree black belt in jujitsu and isa former nationally ranked competitive fencer.

Building effective development organizations, improving team morale, focus, and enthusiasm, developing effective communications between team members, reducing employee turnover, helping businesses identify and attain strategic targets, and applying sport psychology techniques to business have been some of his most successful projects.

Steve lives in Stow MA with his wife, two children, and two very persistent cats.

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Stephen R. Balzac is president of 7 Steps Ahead, LLC (www.7stepsahead.com), a consulting firm that helps businesses improve individual, team, and organizational performance.