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McCoy Training and Development Resources (MTDR) was founded as a sole-proprietorship two and a half years ago by Carol P. McCoy who took an early retirement package from her previous employer. The company provides training, consulting, and HRD tools to organizations and individuals in New England and throughout the United States. McCoy had already gained experience as a one-person training department inside a company. The new challenge was learning to use these same skills to serve customers as a one-person external consulting firm. The business has enabled her to earn a living in HRD while still having enough time to pursue her love of genealogy.

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Books on Managing a Small Training/HRD Department
by Carol P. McCoy

Many companies that are looking to trim payrolls staff their training departments with only one or two people. Even small training departments are expected to make significant contributions to their organizations. Many lone trainers are new to training or have been used to functioning as part of larger staffs. No matter what your background, trainers in small departments need to make the most of your resources and keep from being overwhelmed by unrealistic expectations and demands from senior management and customers.
Small training departments can succeed in improving your organization's performance if you understand the key business challenges, focus on priorities, form partnerships with internal and external resources, and maintain a positive attitude.

The following two books can provide you with critical strategies to help you maximize the effectiveness of a small training department.
Cover of Managing a Small HRD Department: You Can Do More Than You Think Managing a Small HRD Department: You Can Do More Than You Think by Carol P. McCoy, Click Here to Order! (Published by McCoy Training and Development Resources - Previously published by Jossey-Bass, 1993)

This book is a hands-on tool kit to help managers of one-to-five person HRD departments who are expected to provide significant training and other human resource support, often with severely limited resources. It shows how to maximize scarce resources and adapt success strategies used by large training departments. The book's valuable examples, numerous checklists, and fifteen reproducible worksheets will help managers directly apply these proven techniques for marketing, program development, evaluation and more.

Cover of In Action: Managing the Small Training Staff In Action: Managing the Small Training Staff, American Society for Training and Development (1998) - Carol P. McCoy (editor).
A compilation of 12 case studies that provide practical ideas for action and in-depth examples of what training departments that range in size from one part-time employee to five full-time people can accomplish. Representing a wide range of industries, the cases explain the challenges and opportunities small training departments face and describe specific success strategies and tactics that have proved useful.
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