This practical step-by-step guidebook provides human resource development professionals with a clear, effective model of organization career management and the tools needed to initiate the program in any organization. Internationally respected consultant Richard Knowdell shows how such a program will strengthen the organization and foster job satisfaction in employees.

Knowdell’s successful nine-step plan explains how to define career development within the organization, conduct a needs assessment, design the optimal program, and promote it. With a wealth of valuable hands-on-tools, worksheets, exercises, guidelines, and values and skills cards, this book will help professionals initiate new services and expand their present skills.

Richard L. Knowdell is president and senior consultant at Career Research and Testing, Inc., and founder of the Career Planning and Adult Development Network. His clients include Apple, IBM, Texas Instruments, and Intel. He is coauthor of From Downsizing to Recovery.