Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Competence

These readings were selected for their appropriateness to the Human Performance Improvement field. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, nor is it intended to endorse or exclude any particular book.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Senge, Peter M., New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency, 1994
ISBN: 0385260954
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
Senge, Peter M. (Editor), Kleiner, Art (Editor), Roberts, Charlotte, Ross, Rick, & Smith, Bryan, New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency, 1994
ISBN: 0385472560
The Learning Alliance: Systems Thinking in Human Resource Development
Brinkerhoff, Robert O., & Gill, Stephen J., San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994
ISBN: 1555427111
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
Oshry, Barry, San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1996
ISBN: 1881052990
These workshops were selected for their content and appropriateness for the Human Performance Improvement field. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, nor is it intended to endorse or exclude any particular workshop.
Systems Thinking: A Language for Learning and Action
Length: 3 days Cost: $2,450
Location: Boston and Toronto
Innovation Associates
100 Fifth Avenue, Sixth Floor
Waltham, MA 02451
Telephone: (781) 398-8500
E-mail:
Website: www.innovationassociates.com
Beyond Reengineering: Partner-Centered Performance
Length: Contact the vendor Cost: $235
Location: Various; Contact Vendor
Systems Thinking Institute
259 Goffstown RD
Manchester, NH 03102-2701
Telephone: (603) 668-8693 voice
Website: www.systhink-inst.com
Integrated Thinking Process Course
Length: 9 days Cost: Approximately $3,500
Location: Contact Vendor
Goal Systems International
P.O.