Plus Delta’s team of seasoned consultants have developed several valuable tools you can put to use right away to improve performance across your organization. These tools are provided below FREE for Plus Delta’s clients, colleagues, and alliance partners.

• 11 Idea Starters to Get You ‘Going Green’
• Producing Positive Change^sm:
  A Checklist of Painless Practices to Guarantee Success For Your Change Initiatives
• Virtual Meetings: 23 Tips to Guarantee Productive Teleconferences and Virtual Gatherings
• 12 Crucial Keys to Ensuring a Successful Online Survey for Your Organization
• 16 Essential Steps to Selecting – and Getting the Most Out Of – An Executive Coach

We have also recommended specific resources on some of the topics we have featured in our e-newsletter articles. The following books may prove useful to you as you begin researching the implication of these performance issues within your own organization.

• Sustainability: Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston

  Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business by Joel Makower

  The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World by Peter M. Senge, Bryan Smith, Sara Schley, Joe Laur, Nina Kruschwitz

• Leadership Retreats: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni

  Retreats That Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites by Merianne Liteman, Sheila Campbell, and Jeffrey Liteman

• Strategic Change: Mastering Strategy: Insights from the World’s Greatest Leaders and Thinkers by Jeffrey Rigsby and Guy Greco

  Integrated Strategic Change: How Organizational Development Builds Competitive Advantage by Christopher G. Worley, David E Hitchin and Walter L. Ross

• Strategic Planning: Strategy: A View From the Top by Cornelis A De Kluyver and John A. Pearce

  Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

• Organization Design: Designing Your Organization: Using the STAR Model to Solve 5 Critical Design Challenges by Amy Kates and Jay R. Galbraith

  Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness by Edward E. Lawler, III and Christopher G. Worley

• Productivity Management: How to Value Your Business and Increase Its Potential by Jay B. Abrams

  Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity by Jason Jennings

• Managing Change: Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change (2nd Edition) by William Bridges

  The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen

• Leadership Excellence: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins

  What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful! by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter

• Talent Management: Career Planning and Succession Management: Developing Your Organization’s Talent–for Today and Tomorrow By William J. Rothwell, Robert D. Jackson, Shaun C. Knight & John E. Lindholm

  Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage By Robert M. Fulner & Jay A. Conger

• Giving Feedback: Feedback Toolkit: 16 Tools for Better Communication in the Workplace (Empower Your Team-Based Work Force with Productivity’s Tool) by Rick Maurer

  Giving and Receiving Performance Feedback by Peter R. Garber

  What Did You Say?: The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback by Charles N. Seashore, Edith Whitfield Seashore, and Gerald M. Weinberg

• Project Management: Fundamentals of Project Management: Developing Core Competencies to Help Outperform the Competition by James P. Lewis
• Electronic Medical Records: California HealthCare Foundation

  California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO)

  American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)