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Products for Review
We are looking for reviewers for the following products. Contact us if you're interested. We update this list regularly.

ONLINE COURSES
iContent
Large course library from Plateau

SOFTWARE, WEB PLATFORMS
Coggno’s Online Learning Marketplace
“Facilitates the transfer of intellectual property between subject matter experts and creators of that information and those wishing to acquire it. By using Coggno’s content creation and deployment tools, training and learning modules can be created in the Coggno marketplace where organizations and individuals can search, review, acquire, and purchase them.”

Coral Presenter
Rapid development authoring tool

Corporate Wikis
Various wiki platforms for the enterprise

Kaon
Creates “interactive product models/demos allowing companies to present products virtually” for sales and training purposes.

SureSpeak
“Web-based video training tool that works by coupling a simple (and inexpensive) off-the-shelf webcam with an online practice and feedback platform for evaluating and measurement of training performance. SureSpeak includes a practice-and-feedback loop so employees can record, grade, playback and share practice sessions.”

UltraLearn.com
Hosted web platform that “allows organizations to rapidly produce interactive videos, broadcast to target audience, and evaluate learner understanding and content effectiveness."

DVD TRAINING PROGRAMS
Change and Innovation through Brainstorming
15 min. + 9-min. “warm up” video, support package
“John’s contagious enthusiasm and eye-opening insights combine with an amusing visual style to make this video a must for any meeting where teams are looking to find new solutions for any problem.” I’d like to catch some of that enthusiasm!”

The Wisdom of Caring Leaders
13 min., support package
The leaders are well-known corporate leaders, including Jack Welch.

Innovation at the Verge
18 min., support package
“In this bold, new program, Innovation at the Verge, Joel Barker teaches how to create your own future by finding your next innovation. Through stories and examples, you will learn how to combine your ideas with the ideas of others as you meet at the Verge.”

The Invisible Meeting
18 min., support package
About conference calls

Understanding the NEW A.D.A.
16 min., support package
Title is self-explanatory

30 Ways to Make More Time
27 min., support package
About time management

Get On the Right Bus
29 min., support package
A new addition to the sports coach training video genre. Coach K (Duke basketball coach) explains the power of words.

Seeing Red Cars
10 min.
Practicing positive thinking at work—what can I do, not what can’t I do—and being proactive.

Drop by Drop
19 min., support package
Diversity program on the popular topic of the little things (fancy term “microinequities”) that undermine fairness and respect in a workplace.

Ethics: The Logic Of Right
22 min., support package
Scenarios portraying ethical dilemmas.

On The Edge 2.O: Managing High-Risk Situations
? min.
Nine scenarios in which employees face unpredictable and potentially violent situations at work, with resolution techniques.

Harassment Hurts: It's Personal
16 min., support package
“This program explains harassment and uses personalized stories and detailed legal and policy definitions to cover all types of harassment in organizations and workplaces.” All types of harassment in 16 minutes? That’s a challenge!

BOOKS
Aligning Training for Results: A Process and Tools That Link Training to Business
Ron Stone, Wiley
“Addresses all aspects of the training process, beginning with needs assessment and ending with designing transfer strategies – and show how to align training with business needs and goals.”

Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results
Morten T. Hansen, Harvard Business Press
“Highlights common collaboration traps that managers must avoid as well as opportunities they should act on. Identifies the four major barriers to successful collaboration – the ‘not-invented-here’ syndrome; information hoarding; search problems; and transfer issues – and then outlines the three strategy levers leaders can tailor to tear down these barriers.”

Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work: How IBM, Proctor & Gamble and Others Design for Success
Jay Galbraith, Jossey-Bass
“Companies know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries and serve many customer segments through ha variety of channels, there is no way they can avoid some kind of matrix structure. So today the question is ‘How do we make a matrix work?’ Answering this question successfully is what the book is about.”

E-Learning 2.0: Proven Practices and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Results
Anita Rosen, AMACOM
“Rosen explains what works and what doesn’t, offering businesses a best-practices guide for making their investment pay off.”

Executing Change in the Organization: The Consultants Toolkit
Pfeiffer
Consists of 5 books, but review does not have cover all of them:
Executing Change in the Organization
Executing Change for Senior Management Teams
Executing Change for Project Management Teams
Executing Change for Managers
Executing Change for Individual Contributors

Handbook for Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence
Pfeiffer
“The handbook features case studies, best practices and proven tools that show how emotional and social intelligence is being harnessed to deliver improved individual team and organization effectiveness.”

The Integrity Advantage
Dana Telford and Adrian Gostick, Gibbs Smith
“Interviewing hundreds of top business leaders, Telford and Gostick show that there is a distinct, long-term competitive advantage for businesses and their leaders.”

A Practical Guide to Job Analysis
Erich Prien, Jossey-Bass
“Provides the reader with a context for understanding the importance of doing a proper job analysis together with a step-by-step guide to conducting such an analysis.”

The 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development
“Showcases the latest thinking and cutting-edge approaches to management development, training, consulting, and leadership development and e-learning.”

Trust, Thin Book, Charles Feltman
Short book in which “you will learn how to build and maintain strong trusting relationships with others, and repair trust when it is broken, by being intentional and consistent in your language and actions."