American Marketing Association - Best practices, articles and reports, marketing tools, and more.
American Society for Quality - Publications, certification, education, and quality standards.
American Society for Training and Development - ASTD provides practical tools and publications that showcase the latest trends and techniques being used by training and development (T&D) industry leaders worldwide through research reports, books and reviews, and extensive online resources.
Baldrige National Quality Program - This is an assessment tool to determine "Are we Making Progress?" with the implementation of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Strategy. Based on a survey of CEO's, implementation of the Baldrige strategy is more difficult than designing the program. This helpful assessment helps to determine how execution is proceeding for your organization. Requires Adobe Reader to view.
Benchmarking Reports - Fast and effective access to world-class excellence.
Best Practices - Qualitative case studies and reports of leading business practitioners.
Business Statistics - Useful business statistics, and online analysis of business and industries.
Center for Creative Leadership - CCL is an international leadership institute built on path-breaking research and education on leadership development, effectiveness, and impact. The site includes an on-line newsletter, articles, and other useful resources for enhancing the effectiveness of practicing managers.
Change Management Toolbook -A practical, systematic approach to change management.
Coach U-A leading provider of coach training programs. The Coach Training Program (CTP) meets the academic requirements for certifications through the International Coach Federation (ICF).
Entrepreneur.com - Leadership and Management resources for growing companies.
Ethics Resource Center - The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization whose vision is a world where individuals and organizations act with integrity. The mission of the Ethics Resource Center is to strengthen ethical leadership worldwide by providing leading-edge expertise and services through research, education and partnerships..
Financial Calculators - Ten different financial ratios that allow you to zero in on areas of your business that may require attention.
Financial Cost of Organizational Conflict - The Dana Measure allows organizations to determine the true and complete dollar cost of conflict, turnover, and absenteeism. This enables them to make better decisions regarding intervention resources.
Global Best Practices - An extensive knowledge base of best practices and benchmarks maintain by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Harvard Management Update - Articles, cases, teaching materials, and newsletters addressing both best practices and cutting edge organizational trends.
Human Resource Answers - Library and tools to address your HR needs.
Human Resource Products - Forms, motivation, products, software, and labor laws.
International Coach Federation-ICF is the largest nonprofit professional association worldwide of personal and business coaches with more than 6,000 members and over 145 chapters in 30 countries. Its programs set the gold standard for training and certification in the coaching profession.
International Society for Performance Improvement - ISPI is the leading international association dedicated to improving human productivity and performance in the workplace. ISPI is an advocate for the use of Human Performance Technology (HPT). The site includes an HPT tutorial.
Market and Company Data - Market and Company information and statistics for defining and quantifying markets, and populating business development databases.
National Compensation Survey - By State or Metropolitan Area.
Online Training & Development - Largest directory of online courses, certificate programs, and bachelors/masters/doctorate degrees from accredited universities.
Performance Assessment Network - Is a state-of-the-art web-based system for the distribution, administration, and analysis of professional assessments, tests, and surveys.
Productivity and Quality - Publications, studies, books and newsletters on benchmarking and best practices, customer-focused systems, knowledge management, and performance measurements. Also an "examine your industry" section.
Project Management Institute - The world's leading not-for-profit project management professional association, with over 100,000 members worldwide.
Public Speaking & Communications - Learn through a methodical, gradual, non-threatening approach how to speak like the Pros and thereby advance your career.
RainToday - Resources for selling and marketing professional services. Maintains an alliance with the Institute of Management Consultants.
Society for Human Resource Management - SHRM® is the leading voice of the human resource profession. SHRM provides education and information services, conferences and seminars, government and media representation, online services and publications to more than 170,000 professional and student members throughout the world.
Strategic Advantage - Good to great exercises including assessments, benchmarking, and other tools aligned with Jim Collins findings and recommendations in his book Good to Great.
Strategic Planning Institute - Founded in 1975, it manages and develops the Profit Impact of Market Strategy (PIMS) database. The strategic data includes information on over 3,000 strategic experiences with markets, competitors, quality, structure, environment and financial performance. The PIMS database provides a direct relationship between strategic actions and business results before those actions are taken.
Training Return on Investment Calculation - Simple model for determining training ROI, plus the four Kirkpatrick Levels of Measurement. Alliance Professional Group, LLC does very little conventional "training", but we do performance consulting and facilitate professional development at Kirkpatrick Level 4.
Workforce Diversity - Published by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government Benchmarking Study. Contains a section on diversity assessment and evaluation. Requires Adobe Reader to view.
Workforce Trends and Tools - Information on employment law and human resource development for business results.
Working Life - Getting Ahead, Work/Family Balance, and Workplace advice.